Example sentences of "'s [noun pl] and [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next morning Carolyn stayed in her room and read , dipping in and out of Clare 's books and staring out of the window , feeling surprisingly content . |
| 2 | Now he must go away and I dare say I shall never see him again , ’ Joan said woefully , lagging behind despite Anne 's grumbles and gazing down at the ring . |
| 3 | They were forever breaking up each other 's fish-weirs and quarrelling over competing interests in pasture and peat cutting . |
| 4 | It will also support transaction processing monitors starting with DEC 's ACMS and progressing through to USL 's Tuxedo , Transarc Corp 's Encina and Top End — probably in that order . |
| 5 | Dennis was an assiduous host , constantly on the move , opening bottles , disposing of empties , topping up everyone 's glasses and handing round salty snacks in case anyone 's thirst began to flag . |
| 6 | She had seen the young man leaving Mary Kelly 's rooms and slipping out of the building by the back way on more than one occasion . |
| 7 | We do not have ’ joyriding ’ in Northern Ireland ; rather death , destruction and tragedy are the result of young folk indulging in the habit of taking other people 's vehicles and running around in them for all sorts of purposes . |
| 8 | After destroying the abandoned village 's crops and rounding up the Nez Perce cattle , Whipple 's troops marched north-west to Cottonwood , having ‘ stirred up a new hornet 's nest ’ . |