Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no men 's groups asserting their rights . |
| 2 | Then Maggie 's fingers touching his sleeve lightly stopped his departure as she said , ‘ Do n't take any notice of her , sit yourself down there . ’ |
| 3 | VIC Reeves ' parents have put their Darlington house on the market to stop the comedian 's fans hounding them . |
| 4 | Tallis sat quietly , Scathach 's words frightening her . |
| 5 | Ludens had not forgotten Marcus 's words concerning himself and Irina . |
| 6 | A postmodernist option , which we have encountered briefly in Sukenick 's fiction and now seen in Barth 's protagonists composing their story in opposition to political forces devoted to secrecy ( to a silent plot in other words ) , is developed to extraordinarily intricate lengths in the novels of Thomas Pynchon . |
| 7 | Charlotte was aware of Golding 's eyes watching her closely to gauge her reaction . |
| 8 | He felt Khotan 's eyes studying him . |
| 9 | It was odd , but Greg noticed Bill Clough 's eyes following them sharply : he was saying nothing to the purpose so there was no reason why he should n't watch them , but Greg , following his lead , did wonder whether Hilary 's mutterings were not of a rather different kind from Desmond 's . |
| 10 | The last thing you need Saturday is to be surrounded by a load of Job 's Comforters telling you their troubles and explaining how hard and harsh life can be . |
| 11 | This prevented the girl 's parents taking her away from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend . |
| 12 | Liz had felt herself to be close to Naomi , as she nursed Naomi 's children , slept with Naomi 's husband , took tea or sherry with Naomi 's parents , helped to form the childish letters which her stepchildren wrote to Naomi 's parents thanking them for presents , for outings . |
| 13 | I sa , as I say , I met this morning with the three members from Potter Street erm we do have various alternative proposals for sa ways forward should the village back out and what I can say to you at this stage is that we have another meeting scheduled for next week , we will be meeting with the Resident 's Associations keeping them fully informed erm we will ensure that the letter goes back to Mrs who and the other Resident 's Associations who expressed concern there and that we will be taking , I hope , I hope because I 'm gon na have to say if Woolwich back out we 're going out we 're going have to move very fast and do some quite erm in-depth work . |
| 14 | The problem was that I could not be sure if this was your true feeling for me , or just your terror of Mathilde 's ghosts making you cling to me in that delightful and extremely inflammatory fashion . |
| 15 | Armoured Hearthwares with red sashes belting their middles laboured on to the battlements with the defender 's weapons pounding them like smith 's hammers on an anvil . |
| 16 | One of Einstein 's aims following his development of SR was to find a set of equations to describe gravitation that would be consistent with SR , and his search was crowned with success in 1915 , just ten years later . |
| 17 | There are various entries in Green 's diaries setting himself a timetable for the completion of series of plates for his publications : - |
| 18 | And pro tabacco company groups question Research fund 's figures claiming they do n't take account of other factors contributing to deaths . |
| 19 | Europe 's trees losing their leaves |
| 20 | They had already started to look at houses — not any close inspection , just murmured approval as they had been driving , Glyn 's comments warming her . |
| 21 | Sir , — We write in reply to an article detailing East Hampshire District Council 's comments following our successful appeal against a decision to refuse planning permission for a private gipsy site for one family in Passfield . |
| 22 | Prince Charlie 's servants ushering him urgently on to a boat , looking anxiously over their shoulders to check that no traitor has deceived them and given away the location of the Prince 's departure , when suddenly the Prince spies a dark hole some miles away on the side of a hill . |
| 23 | Two of William 's friends having lots of fun |
| 24 | That included the Kop singing She Loves You and Anyone Who Had A Heart and the Vernon 's Girls singing We Love The Beatles . |
| 25 | For a second or two she felt the protection of a man 's arms holding her securely and then she had crashed on top of him and was lying spread-eagled on a rock-hard body , deceptively concealed beneath soft fabric . |
| 26 | Or was it ? she wondered , her memory reaching out to the feel of Silas 's arms holding her against him , and to his lips resting upon her own . |
| 27 | Anybody trying to bring about a major transformation in a science must direct attention to the facts as he sees them : to a herbalist in the tradition of Culpeper it was an important fact that a particular herb was collected under a waxing or a waning moon ; for one of Liebig 's pupils analysing it this was not a relevant fact at all . |
| 28 | Warwickshire 's batsmen rueing what might have been . |
| 29 | Not surprisingly , therefore , the Government 's claims regarding who is better off have become an issue of intense dispute . |
| 30 | They were cleaned of frozen mud , made ready , and we all clambered aboard , Bowyer 's soldiers poling us across . |