genitive or objective case form?

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Ej!_nihilist  #460149  Thu, 03 Jan 08 11:29 PM
I'm also dealing with this problem of genitive or objective case form in these sentences:
I dislike him/his driving my car.
We look forward to you/your becoming our neighbour.
I look forward to it/its getting warmer in spring.
Peter stopped the vehicle's crashing into the fence.

In all cases I incline to the genitive form, but doing that just by feeling.
(and doing so turned out to be wrong in several cases beforeSmile [:)]

thanks in advance !
  
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Philip  #460151  Thu, 03 Jan 08 11:32 PM
The genitive is correct, because -ing form is used as a noun, and it needs a possessive
  
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Ej!_nihilist  #460155  Thu, 03 Jan 08 11:49 PM
Thank you!
  
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