Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] 's [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | so obviously she 's assuming that she 's talking to Elvis , but er , she ca n't prove it |
| 2 | Perhaps it 's telling that a similar process of self-siphoning is also afflicting Hollywood , for no other song-writer is as steeped in cinema as Springsteen ( it is surprising that we had to wait until Indian Runner for a film to be made of one of his songs ) . |
| 3 | So it 's fitting that his collection of fishing tackle is being auctioned off in the town tomorrow . |
| 4 | A few minutes later he 's explaining that he recently left his agent at the powerful Creative Artists Agency so that , unlike almost everyone else in Hollywood , he would n't have to hand over ten per cent of everything he earned . |
| 5 | Erm and he 's saying that you know to start with basically education has always been the preserve of the landlords , er the peasants have n't had anything to do with education , have always been poor illiterate peasants erm and now he 's saying that because the landlords have been overthrown erm suddenly peasants er have , you know , are forming erm schools and have been able to be taught various things . |
| 6 | Well he 's saying that that bloke mistook him for somebody else then ? |
| 7 | For all that the Government is making a bit of er er idiot of itself by not embracing the things that it needs to embrace the things it needs to do , at least it 's saying that it wo n't do them . |
| 8 | Lucy pointed out rapidly , ‘ It 's not where a relationship has come from — it 's where it 's going that matters . |
| 9 | in a vicious circle too it 's working that the tax payers are having to subsidize bed and breakfast |