Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [v-ing] in its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lalage looked up only when Dada , having completed a diagram of salt and pepper pots , directed her attention to the flat silver dish she was delaying in its stately passage round the table . |
| 2 | Nell Anderson knew she was seconds from death , and that despite her desire for it , the moment it was on her was terrifying in its violence . |
| 3 | But Luke appeared to have recovered almost instantly , and the smile he sent her was lacerating in its mockery . |
| 4 | You 'll never be short of things to do in Dublin — whether it 's shopping in its modern centre , or simply relaxing over a Guinness in one of the city 's excellent pubs . |
| 5 | It is binding in its entirety and applicable simultaneously in all member States , and has been used mostly in the nationally sensitive area of agricultural policy . |
| 6 | It was shocking in its coarseness and to her gentle Victorian mother alarmingly primitive , nearly pre-moral . |