Example sentences of "'s [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of the people he 's conning is Sir Epicure Manhom who wants a life of ease and luxury and has been giving the alchemist loads of money in order to tu to , to perfect this and funny enough the alchemist has n't managed , has n't managed to do this , to get the person 's money . |
| 32 | He 's varnishing is n't he , the doors ? |
| 33 | Another champion fighter is Simon Bellettee from swindon … he 's kickboxing 's new british super welterweight king … |
| 34 | Well I do n't think he is , I think what he 's put , what he 's describing is a restorationist response initially by the peasantry , all o almost all of these actions could be seen as restorationist , they are an attack on the system not working because of the actions of evil gentry , corrupt bureaucrats , local officials etcetera etcetera |
| 35 | and yet the mortgage was three months in arrears , no poll tax paid , no other bills paid , all he 's paying is the gas , electric and the water rates |
| 36 | Cos it 's erm , the pre-paid envelope is where it 's going is n't it ? |
| 37 | he 's going is he ? |
| 38 | She 's going is she ? |
| 39 | It 's the cost effect of not having that information , that 's going be a cost on the client if he comes and wants |
| 40 | Here it seems that it 's going be generally it 's in the top left menu , but some of them do n't have menus . |
| 41 | Well she 's expecting is n't she ? |
| 42 | " The one she 's wearing is getting very tight across the — well — it 's getting tight in the wrong places . |
| 43 | The thousand pound machine he 's riding is called a recumbant , it 's faster than the usual type of racing bike and has the added advantage of giving it 's rider , as the name suggests , a more leisurely riding position . |
| 44 | •Wolverhampton teen-ager Lee Collings has got plenty to smile about — the carp he 's holding is a personal best 19 lb mirror taken from a Shropshire syndicate lake . |
| 45 | The TA course 's patrolling is coming on well and the visitor has moved on to see What the junior intake is doing . |
| 46 | O K accept it , because the only person that 's suffering is you . |
| 47 | The fact of these men 's having been guided argues a body of local botanical knowledge as early as the first part of the 17th century . |
| 48 | This is a poor harvest from those weeks or months that the Pounds spent in Sicily ; and indeed it is no harvest at all , since none of these allusions depends in any way on the poet 's having been physically present in the island . |
| 49 | Scaevola is less than enthusiastic , but he does state that a case can be made for a trust 's having been established . |
| 50 | The fact of the recent move plus my mind 's having been engaged elsewhere might , I hoped , explain this otherwise crass stupidity . |
| 51 | In spite of the causal theory 's having been taken over from the rationalist , Descartes , it could be put to use in the interests of empiricism . |
| 52 | If the necessity for the agreement is overlooked then so will be the necessity of the child 's having been trained to react to certain things in a certain way for it to mean anything by ‘ It is red ’ . |
| 53 | It was improbable in the extreme that Brian 's sterling qualities had come to the notice of the Comptroller of the Household , and she could only assume that the summons had been the consequence of her father 's having been an RA . |
| 54 | The fact of his eldest son 's having been knighted within a month of Noell 's death from the plague ( on 29 September 1665 at his home in the parish of St Olave Jewry , London ) suggests continuing royal favour , although his executors did not escape unwelcome attention from royal revenue officials , notably in connection with allegations of his having profited improperly from the gains of privateering — England and Spain remaining technically at war until some little time after the Restoration . |
| 55 | It ranges from the Dean 's having been arrested for murdering Paul Gray to the Bishop 's having hired Lord Cumbermound 's beagles to track down the corpse . ’ |
| 56 | She wondered if she should tell him about Amy 's having been a nurse . |
| 57 | ONE OF the world 's major orchid shows is to open in Glasgow in May , in spite of the event 's having been dubbed a fiasco less than a month ago . |
| 58 | ‘ Wherever you find a group within society which feels that what it 's doing is seriously different from everyone else , then you 're likely to find initiation rites , ’ he said . |
| 59 | I look at people like Harry Connick Jr. , and what he 's doing is very appealing , but that bypasses rock altogether and there is something fresh and very ‘ adult ’ about it . |
| 60 | What I was trying to say was , if you 're really bored with him and he 's doing is , any form of bio-chemistry start asking him about the correct names , what are they ? |