Example sentences of "[v-ing] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we 're booked up to go and see Cats in January , oh we 've quite a few and then like , there actually spooling 's quite good at organizing for er charity . |
| 2 | ‘ To be honest no , lurking 's boring and if it 's all the same to you , Nigel old boy , lurking 's out . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ To be honest no , lurking 's boring and if it 's all the same to you , Nigel old boy , lurking 's out . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Dying 's a hard enough thought for old men , and terrible past bearing , maybe , for a boy . |
| 5 | It 's not spelling 's a bit messy is n't it . |
| 6 | But it 's a batch process , whereas ironmaking 's continuous . |
| 7 | Walking 's better |
| 8 | You see under here it says ’ Thrashing 's one of the hardest and dirtiest parts of farming and generally supposedly not suitable for women . |
| 9 | Well , costing 's okay , it 's done throughout , you can refer back to it . |
| 10 | I mean , acting 's so unpredictable . ’ |
| 11 | Acting 's all about doing the actions . |
| 12 | Chanting 's when you 're talking to other Orcadians in your best English when there 's really no need for it when you just want to show off that you 're . |
| 13 | ‘ The Grey Horse ’ had enjoyed a line season , losing just once ( when conceding a great deal of weight in a handicap over two miles , a distance now too short for him to show his best ) , and winning the King George VI Rank Chase , steeplechasing 's other classic , for the third time . |
| 14 | Going 's what matters . |
| 15 | Fo nothing for co , concentration 's out and literacy 's in following instructions is out , problem solving 's in er , mathematical 's numeracy er , social skills is extra . |
| 16 | What is interesting here , however , is that the word its ( the possessive pronoun , meaning " belonging to it " ) is not built by taking it and adding 's to it . |
| 17 | THE bookmaking barons like to be called Alfie or Len ; the people who run the Jockey Club , racing 's official regulator , prefer glossier titles . |
| 18 | The solution , claim racing 's blue-blooded interests , is to force the punter to pay more , either through a monopoly tote ( the Marquis 's wish ) or a higher levy ( the Jockey Club 's ) . |
| 19 | Fiona would never jock him off , in racing 's descriptive phrase . |
| 20 | Between them the eight runners had won three races ; they were racing 's cannon fodder . |
| 21 | ‘ Racing 's a small world . ’ |
| 22 | Piquet is one of racing 's great pragmatists . |
| 23 | Racing 's top rugs |
| 24 | Three Court of Appeal judges held that the ruling by racing 's controlling body was not open to judicial review . |
| 25 | AMRULLAH , racing 's best known non-winner , is back in training for another attempt to break his incredible losing sequence which has now reached 74 . |
| 26 | Racing 's big spenders from the Middle East are threatening to pull the plug — and take their horses to France in search of bigger prize money . |
| 27 | ‘ Racing 's in a desperate state ’ |
| 28 | If racing 's your game … then the odds of you dreaming about leading a winning horse in after a big race must be 2 to 1 on … |
| 29 | RACING 'S top brass should be ashamed of themselves . |
| 30 | Racing 's only Sunday meeting of the year is to be staged at Lingfield Park on 1 August . |