Example sentences of "'s [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's ten years old and she 's sucking up her clothes . |
| 2 | Jesus , he 's sucking in air at the back and wuffing it out at the front . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know what I was doing wrong with her in the middle of the year , but she 's blossomed now . |
| 4 | A production assistant hot-footed it round to Camera 3 's position and came through with : ‘ Jeez , boss , three 's crook — he 's fell over in the heat . ’ |
| 5 | She says he 's er he 's fell over in the , you know , and er , he he 's al , he were always running , he gets on left side onto us runs to this corner , calls out to the missus |
| 6 | Oh it 's fell out ! |
| 7 | So that 's what , that 's the way I 'm hoping that we can proceed , as I say , yes with your assistance and then if we can get through that business , then equally tomorrow morning , we 'll be doing a similar thing , we we 'll issue another revised programme which will er take in some of the outstanding stuff that 's fell off . |
| 8 | Well it 's speeding up to there accelerating and it 's |
| 9 | It 's speeding up again . |
| 10 | That 's , that 's , that 's a , that 's a straight line , and you say it 's speeding up ? |
| 11 | That seems to imply that , I do n't think it 's speeding up , does n't it ? |
| 12 | Ann thirty five and he 's speeding now . |
| 13 | She 's slagging off now Lyne . |
| 14 | The computer 's switched on when that 's pressed in . |
| 15 | Because of the way she did it , they said of Madame , ‘ That woman knows what she 's singing about , ’ and this expression became a common one . |
| 16 | Sound track by Count Basie and Islam 's answer to Pavarotti in the even more enormous shape of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ; voice like a tripped-out angel in a dream even though I have no idea what he 's singing about and always sneakingly suspect it 's something on the lines of ‘ Hey , let's string up Salman Rushdie , yeah-yeah ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ The Glasgow Steel Roofing Company 's daein' well enough out of building Tait 's Tower . |
| 18 | We must bring costs under control , preserve quality , preserve choice , and reduce the people 's nagging daily worry about health insurance . |
| 19 | If it 's rotating round like you want me to draw . |
| 20 | I wonder if Ian 's heard yet ? |
| 21 | After the third play , Tommy 's heard enough . |
| 22 | The city has one of the highest proportion of drug deaths in Britain ; a committee of MP 's heard recently that drug overdoses were the single biggest killer among the city 's young . |
| 23 | An inquest 's heard how a student took a drugs overdose because he was worried about his exams . |
| 24 | An inquest 's heard how two singers died in a car crash just days before what could have been their biggest break . |
| 25 | A court 's heard how a gang of armed robbers tried to kill a police inspector by opening fire with shotguns during a high-speed chase . |
| 26 | An inquest 's heard how an experienced woman rider died when her horse somersaulted on top of her after tripping over a jump . |
| 27 | There 's bringing home the bacon … and then there 's bringing back the ham . |
| 28 | ‘ If a woman is n't working , her husband 's bringing home the pay cheque and it 's seen very much as ‘ his money ’ , compulsive spending can be a way of getting back at him if she 's angry , ’ explains Simon Gelsthorpe . |
| 29 | There 's bringing home the bacon … and then there 's bringing back the ham . |
| 30 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |