Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] 's [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humour keeps you steady , after all , even when the shit 's coming down . |
| 2 | ‘ And the tide 's coming in . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The tide 's coming in . ’ |
| 4 | It 's to keep you invested in building societies , only they , they 're frantic because all the money 's going out and they want to keep their erm their erm deposits up , so they 're offering these schemes , and they are quite good , there are no charges as such , but er you 'll get the value of the fund that they 've made , or you 'll get a say two or three percent bonus per annum on top of the er share rate , er if you keep it for four or five years . |
| 5 | Mind , the election 's taking up quite a lot of his time . |
| 6 | — ‘ Any idea what the squadron 's doing now ? ’ ) but from that moment there was a clear cut division between the sheep and the goats . |
| 7 | Nice to see the kitchen 's coming on at last . |
| 8 | The storm 's blowing over and you 've nothing to worry about except fifteen years inside . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The truck 's swerving around a lot . |
| 10 | It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ? |
| 11 | If you imagine the blood 's going round and you 're trying to get you know |
| 12 | ‘ We could say Kylie 's just having fun , being a big kid , giving us a giggle ; but then the grown up Kylie goes and writes a caption to go with the picture , ’ began the psychologist 's summing up . |
| 13 | The undergrowth 's taking over and the dust is piling up , but Longfords Mill may yet gain a new lease of life . |
| 14 | And now the roof 's leaking so badly they 've had to close the gym completely . ’ |
| 15 | Thus John Locke distinguishes between ‘ reflection ’ , the mind 's turning inward upon itself , and ‘ sensation ’ , the source of our ideas of external objects . |
| 16 | Simply put , this replaces one of the springs in the rear cavity with an adjustable ‘ piston ’ which is set to return the tremolo more accurately to its standing position , hence keeping the instrument 's tuning more stable . |
| 17 | " And we 're in luck , the wind 's blowing straight towards us . |
| 18 | the car 's sounding pretty ropy at the minute , needs a new exhaust . |
| 19 | Come on , the car 's going slowly . |
| 20 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 21 | So the mayor 's taking out the oranges ? |
| 22 | And they , they get very very quickly suspicious when , you know , when the nurse is coming in and the priest 's coming in and the |
| 23 | That 's right , the tape 's continuing now from where it was before . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's alright , childer , the monster 's going away now , ’ said Nellie . |
| 25 | The daggerboard is raised slightly from the same position in lighter winds because the boat 's sailing faster . |
| 26 | So the engine 's ticking over nicely . |
| 27 | I do n't think it 's , the swe , the swelling 's going down at all do you ? |
| 28 | Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow 's leaking out , the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones , power centralised , corruption institutionalised , and a generation created which 'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out . ’ |
| 29 | ROS : The sun 's going down . |
| 30 | ROS : The sun 's going down . |