Example sentences of "'s [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ann thirty five and he 's speeding now . |
| 2 | ‘ The Glasgow Steel Roofing Company 's daein' well enough out of building Tait 's Tower . |
| 3 | We must bring costs under control , preserve quality , preserve choice , and reduce the people 's nagging daily worry about health insurance . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | There 's bringing home the bacon … and then there 's bringing back the ham . |
| 6 | And then , off you go and make them ready and when you get out onto the heath you just , the horses what 's galloping together , you 've all been weighed out and then who 's riding them and they all take the sheets off and they er straightaway . |
| 7 | And what 's more , everyone 's apologising all over the place except for one vile journalist who says it 's possible a misguided vigilante thought getting rid of Harry the only path to real justice , and I want Harry to sue him , it 's truly vicious . ’ |
| 8 | We have already seen that the social activity of " chattin " Patois " involves a speaker 's using relatively more Creole features than s/he usually does when speaking " ordinary English " . |
| 9 | Er yo your car she 's using then ? |
| 10 | " Nothing 's hanging there . |
| 11 | if one 's like it the other 's like it as long as that 's hanging there untouched there 's quite , quite safe , I mean were n't worth it |
| 12 | the picture 's hanging crookedly |
| 13 | ‘ He 's circling again but if the undercarriage fails it looks as if he may have to make a crash landing . |
| 14 | It 's proving very difficult raising money for the sea wall because everybody likes to contribute towards buying something new but not so many like to repair something you have already got . |
| 15 | I bet it really gets up your nose that my knitwear 's proving so popular . ’ |
| 16 | It 's this generation who 'll benefit from the new Europe ; a Europe that 's proving so hard to build . |
| 17 | Now she 's stepping blithely through a door |
| 18 | ‘ Now Mum 's goin' ter spoil everything , ’ I whispered to Frankie . |
| 19 | See he 's blushing now ! |
| 20 | I think we could all do what Andrew 's suggesting quite easily er I could do it for Geography , erm , I just think it 's making a lot of extra work . |
| 21 | J. C. Carlile wrote of Spurgeon 's preaching thus : |
| 22 | But he 's eating well going to the loo alright . |
| 23 | Back by the regatta , the picnic lunches are in full swing — with typical British stiff upper lip , everyone 's eating outdoors and ignoring the less than summery weather . |
| 24 | After all , he 's eating fairly well and he 's quite lively , is n't he ? " |
| 25 | She 's eating now , she ca n't wait that chocolate . |
| 26 | When the glider is desperately low the pilot 's handling often goes to pieces , and he may over-rudder in an effort to get round a final turn without touching a wing-tip or turning any steeper . |
| 27 | Pilate standing on , you imagine knowing that he has delivered up an innocent man , knowing that he 's delivered to death someone who is not guilty of death , knowing that he is the son of God , the King of the Jews , listen to what he says and th listen to what he 's watch , he 's seeing rather and the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around him and they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him , and after weaving a crown of thorns they put it on his head and reed in his right hand , and they kneeled down before him and mocked him saying , hail ! |
| 28 | It 's a serious operation but she 's recovering well . |
| 29 | He 's recovering nicely from his injuries , though he still does walk bent double . |
| 30 | Well , mind , she has been quite ill , but she 's recovering now . |