Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] and [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she bent to the set , holding the bird 's waist and wheezing slightly , her big breasts tumbled into her shirt-front . |
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| 3 | The emphasis of the research is on Kaldor 's writing and thinking rather than on his life in the biographical sense , although there are distinct phases in his intellectual life that can be easily identified . |
| 4 | Pears was whisked off still wearing his goalkeeper 's jersey and limping heavily after being hurt in the final minutes . |
| 5 | She saw that the leader of the religious group had separated himself from the majority and was standing near to the sea 's edge and looking directly at the horizon . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is common to dismiss women 's analysis and writing as tendentious , irrational , subjective , misguided , or more simply wrong . |
| 8 | In response to that application the local authority social worker filed a statement opposing the father 's application and proposing instead that the children be placed with long-term foster parents . |
| 9 | He took another head punch before ducking under Elliott 's arm and turning so that they passed one another , Culley clubbing with laced fingers . |