Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glen Plake 's hair has been standing on end ever since he started watching his own ski movies . |
| 2 | Someone 's pig had been rooting amongst the cabbage patch . |
| 3 | Crash investigator , David Bristow used tyre marks on the road and a reconstruction to calculate that Gooch 's car had been travelling at up to 96 mph . |
| 4 | Derry City 's new boy conceded Roy Coyle 's side had been going through a lean period but he said the lads would bounce back . |
| 5 | Converted to luminosity , this means that the sun 's brightness has been dimming at a rate of 0.05 per cent per year , a figure that is in good agreement with the satellite results . |
| 6 | James Fanshawe 's charge has been improving with every race and finished a head second to Turtle Island in the Group Two Gimcrack Stakes at York last time . |
| 7 | James Fanshawe 's charge has been improving with every race and finished a head second to Turtle Island in the Group Two Gimcrack Stakes at York last time . |
| 8 | THE list of processes thought to occur abiotically at the Earth 's surface has been shrinking on a yearly basis . |
| 9 | Abingdon 's trade had been waning for some time , with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538 . |
| 10 | They parried before she admitted her father 's list had been missing since the day before his death , and he had believed Mona Washbrooke had stolen it and was also guilty of going through his papers . |
| 11 | Since Gooding 's detention in Coney Hill , the city 's MP has been campaigning for his transfer to more secure premises . |
| 12 | Long 's health had been deteriorating for years , but he had kept open his channels of communication ; like Law his influence was based on years of devotion to the interests of the party , and like Law 's that influence had been used to argue the case for coalition . |
| 13 | Columbia 's payload has been waiting for a shuttle ride since nineteen eighty six . |
| 14 | What was once the abbey 's guest-house had been increasing in size and grandeur as successive monarchs used it for their Edinburgh residence . |
| 15 | Dai 's family had been working on the farmlands around Rhydoldog for generations . |
| 16 | Andrew 's family has been trying for three years to get treatment for him . |