Example sentences of "[pron] 's [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone 's mispending de cash |
| 2 | Surfwear brands like Quicksilver , Billabong and Gotcha all sell here — they 're so well established — but if someone 's wearing a name like Fat Willys , then you know they 're a joke surfer . ’ |
| 3 | in our time lary meant someone 's wearing a sort of bright green an |
| 4 | Someone 's made a right pig 's ear of them , and that 's a fact . |
| 5 | ‘ Someone 's triggered the alarm . |
| 6 | It really does sometimes feel like someone 's playing a trick on my head . |
| 7 | ‘ Sounds like someone 's playing the flute down there at night . |
| 8 | There 's a close-up of a guitar when someone 's playing the piano , and a close-up of the back of someone 's head when someone else is f—ing flying over the other side of the stage . |
| 9 | It 's very , it 's deceptive if you 're not working out what you 're doing and relating it back to the graph , and relating it back to physics , to an experiment you 're doing , someone 's checking the clock every second to see how much further it 's gone . |
| 10 | someone 's letting the rope down |
| 11 | Formulated in words suggested by this quotation , the question I want to find an answer to is : are there logical conditions of someone 's having the experience of seeing something as , say , blue ? |
| 12 | SOMEONE 'S SUGGESTED a clever little wrinkle that a buyer of Mirror Group Newspapers might be able to employ , were the purchaser to have a pension fund with a substantial surplus . |
| 13 | One element of the business community alleges that they need the right to pretend someone 's making an offer when no one actually is ’ . |
| 14 | And someone 's switched the reels . |
| 15 | Someone 's left a cup and saucer on the table , and when someone comes round , I pretend I 'm drinking just in case they ask what I 'm doing . |
| 16 | ‘ I think 'e 's owed that , ’ said Sprott , ‘ I think 'e 's owed a generous tribute . ’ |
| 17 | 'E 's worryin' the life out of 'is muvver . |
| 18 | ‘ 'E 's taken a fancy to you , John mate . |
| 19 | When 'e 's backed the lorry in the yard we close the gates like I said . |
| 20 | Our Nancy might be only seventeen , but she 's already a full-growed woman to look at , and I know she 'd be pleased to be 'is wife , 'e 'd only 'ave to ask 'er , except 'e did say once that 'e 's waitin' a while before 'e gets married . |
| 21 | Nobody 's noticed the heater switches ! |
| 22 | ‘ Nobody 's said the team 's got to be official , like . |
| 23 | Well nobody 's buying the rounds . |
| 24 | They have to keep a logbook but that 's only a check to make sure that nobody 's leaving a mess in the common areas and we only have it because we 've found that some residents can have problems because they 've become deskilled in certain things . |
| 25 | Nobody 's expecting a big queue of potential purchasers |
| 26 | ‘ So , ’ Angelica said , ‘ nobody 's lost a dog around here ? ’ |
| 27 | Nobody 's telling the f—ing truth . |
| 28 | The British commander who has to bring his team through the desert in Ice Cold in Alex ( 1958 ) seems hysterical and incompetent by comparison with the Dutch South African who accompanies them but is working for the Germans ; and the message of Ealing 's Dunkirk ( 1958 ) is summarized in one character 's closing statement , ‘ Somebody 's made a muck of it but I do n't think it 's the army . ’ |
| 29 | , somebody 's holding the door shut , , would n't push open knock the end of the nose as usual , very startled dog . |
| 30 | " Somebody 's pulling a joke on somebody , " he said . |