Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Referring to WBA and IBF champion Riddick Bowe , he added : ‘ There are two heavyweight champions who are bidding for someone 's services . |
| 2 | There 's nowt nervous on knocking on somebody 's door and saying I Are you ready ? |
| 3 | As children , we all got up to tricks like pinching a few apples or knocking on someone 's door and running away — all rather harmless , but if our parents found out , we would be in for a good hiding , a cut on the backside . |
| 4 | In the end , however , childrearing is very much about values — and these are very individual matters , relating to one 's attitudes , beliefs and style of living . |
| 5 | The usual definition of ‘ chutzpah ’ is a small boy peeing through someone 's letter box , then ringing the doorbell to see how far it went . |
| 6 | But that weekend you were looking after someone 's spaniel . ’ |
| 7 | Nor does one surrender one 's judgment if that means acting against one 's judgment . |
| 8 | Have you been meddling with someone 's girlfriend ? ’ |
| 9 | CAN YOU , just by looking into someone 's eyes , know whether the speaker is telling the truth ? |
| 10 | The relationship is rather like that of pornography to sexual aggression , cathartic or stimulant according to one 's prejudices . |
| 11 | A few years earlier Aung San might possibly have taken to the jungle , bandit or resistance fighter according to one 's viewpoint , known only within a few miles of his own home . |
| 12 | It is therefore incumbent upon all humans to attempt to control our minds , to pursue some path of mind control , meditation , prayer , yoga or whatever — according to one 's inclinations . |
| 13 | Zande conceptions are sufficiently flexible to permit the selection of explanations according to one 's position and interests . |
| 14 | Midnight , according to one 's mood , conjured up romantic or macabre visions . |
| 15 | Time was when the European Communities were , according to one 's views , but a shaft of sunlight or a thunderstorm on the horizon . |
| 16 | Since 1988 I have been working with Oxford and Jericho Against the Poll Tax and am now participating in a scheme , devised by Oxford Quakers and the Green Party , to pay the tax as a group , according to one 's means : ie. a local income tax . |
| 17 | Time was magic , Sally-Anne thought ; it stretched or contracted according to one 's pleasure . |
| 18 | For the same quality can be interpreted differently according to one 's point of view , one 's experience , and one 's feelings . |
| 19 | His identification with Christ , whom he called ‘ the greatest of all artists ’ , is here , in defeat , at its most sublime or its most ridiculous , according to one 's point of view . |
| 20 | Although they have reached an impasse , lasting either a year or 22 years , according to one 's point of view , they must keep trying . |
| 21 | This was the Fifth ( or Sixth , according to one 's definition ) such Congress : most had taken place in Europe , but that preceding the Manchester meeting was held in New York in 1927 . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's not me that goes round swearing at one 's betters and pelting downstairs like a looney . ’ |
| 23 | So that 's the first consideration when I 'm looking at somebody 's investments , how do they view their own investment strategy ? |
| 24 | So looking at somebody 's needs and what are the sort of things they 're likely to take into account ? |
| 25 | Merely looking at one 's watch and giving the right time is usually enough to prevent the completely accurate recall of an unfamiliar telephone number . |
| 26 | The fact that one can always see what one has said as a string of words , which might be interpreted in this way or that , does not entail that whenever one says something there is an accompanying interpretation going through one 's head . |
| 27 | What are the things which actually are going through someone 's head when they buy a product . |
| 28 | Students learning to be future professional designers will need to think about designing with everyone 's needs in mind . |
| 29 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
| 30 | One should guard against specializing in one 's studies " ; and in himself he noted " an extraordinary craving for knowledge and universal culture " — something like an instinct for " wholeness " was clearly , if naively , operative . |