Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] [adv] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas 's superficial injuries could be seen as ‘ fair retribution for an adulterer cheating with someone else 's wife ’ , he added . |
| 2 | Thomas 's superficial injuries could be seen as ‘ fair retribution for an adulterer cheating with someone else 's wife ’ , he added . |
| 3 | Just as trompe-l'oeil is mischannelled photography , so is painting in someone else 's style . |
| 4 | Sal , who was working shifts in a cafe on the Commercial Road , went back to work on Boxing Day , and Grace remained on duty at the London hospital throughout the so-called holiday , while Kitty mooched around checking on everyone else 's presents before going back to bed . |
| 5 | Every sentence had to be thought out in full , every adverb and adjective scrutinized for signs of contamination or hints of hysteria , those tell-tale flaws which would allow sharp minds to deduce that he was not writing about someone else 's misdeeds , but his own . |
| 6 | Looking after someone else 's child ca n't be easy . ’ |
| 7 | Always living in somebody else 's house . |
| 8 | Data from 1976 for women specifically show that 14 per cent of women whose marriages were intact were living in someone else 's household ( the most popular choice being the wife 's parents ) , but for divorced and separated women the figure rose to 61 per cent . |
| 9 | The numbers of such couples living in someone else 's household fell by three-quarters between 1961 and 1981 . |
| 10 | Listening to someone else 's problem |
| 11 | Is there any point , he asked , in filling the jar according to someone else 's instincts with stuff that someone else has worked up ? |
| 12 | When the period is over , critically examine what you have done as if you were looking at someone else 's efforts . |
| 13 | Quite obviously the passivity of , say , looking at someone else 's drawing is considerably less demanding than doing one 's own . |
| 14 | I do n't want them paying for someone else 's children . |
| 15 | This little Hampshire market town had not been designed for crowds such as these , and everyone kept on getting in everyone else 's way . |
| 16 | The ring which had originally been twenty feet across was now little wider than seven or eight feet ; the squatters were now standing and getting in everyone else 's view . |
| 17 | What was I doing with someone else 's boat , for a start ? ’ |
| 18 | In fact , she will have to carve her own niche when she gets there and discover where she can be most useful at Dalek Hospital , where the unit is based , without treading on anyone else 's toes . |
| 19 | To begin to remedy this emotional block , start to notice when you are looking for praise or recognition , and in doing so , start talking about or bringing to someone else 's notice something you have not done so well . |
| 20 | I 'm still uncomfortable about the overall effect , but keep reminding myself that I 'm dealing with someone else 's baby … |
| 21 | Games of chasing shadows , jumping on someone else 's shadow , making tall and short shadows , can all be initiated by an adult with a small group of interested children . |
| 22 | And it was fine when Busacher was paying him attention , rebuking him for talking during someone else 's numbers , railing at him for rudeness , for lack of participation . |
| 23 | We can only hope , given the disparaging tone of this review of the nation 's youth , that these good doctors were talking about somebody else 's children . |
| 24 | ‘ I like that book , ’ she said , as if talking about someone else 's work . |
| 25 | ‘ Now it 's time to start winning in someone else 's gym . ’ |
| 26 | It was commonly held that the first lord to whom he had sworn fealty had the first call on his service ; but in some cases it was held that the richest fief gave the vassal his strongest obligation ; or again , that it depended on the circumstances , on which lord had the greatest need — a lord must be helped if he was fighting in self-defence , but his claim was less if he was fighting in someone else 's defence ; or the vassal might be expected to fight on both sides , that is to say , to provide troops for both armies . |
| 27 | Ask yourself , ‘ Am I responding to someone else 's fear ? ’ |
| 28 | You are standing on someone else 's design — like a piece on a chess board — and you are always conscious of being part of a whole . |
| 29 | Not when he 's told me he was playing on somebody else 's table and not gon na have a game . |
| 30 | The overall effect was one of confusion and a feeling of disorientation , as though she had opened the wrong door by mistake and was trespassing on someone else 's property . |