Example sentences of "'s [verb] a " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm coming up a hill near some kind of huge church or cathedral — there must 've been a service or a concert going on because people are pouring out — one of them 's singing a high trill and her boyfriend 's cross : ‘ Please , Miranda ! |
2 | One moment Harvey sounds like she 's trapped in a particularly unpleasant psychodrama , the next she 's singing an exuberant snatch of I 'm Gon na Wash that Man Right Out of My Hair . |
3 | She may not trust you , so ask if she 's heard a loo flush in the night . |
4 | Pity , Emma 's decided she 's bringing a camera now and she reckons he bringing his ! |
5 | A disabled rider who 's accusing a horse trader of cheating her out of twelve hundred pounds says more than a hundred and fifty people may have suffered a similar fate . |
6 | Pensioner 's received a 5.9 per cent increase in the state pension last April . |
7 | In early February , Sotheby 's received a letter from A. Schuttwolf , paintings curator at Gotha , who noted that there was no possibility of them buying the Wtewael , and that the painting could proceed to sale . |
8 | In the past all Q.T 's received a training which was heavily subsidised by the Society — in to-day 's terms this amounted to about £200 per person for each year of training . |
9 | He 's received a lump sum payment — believed to be a few thousand pounds . |
10 | BUT FAX MACHINES HAVE PLENTY OF SHORTCOMINGS , AS ANYONE WHO 'S RECEIVED AN INDECIPHERABLE SCRAP OF PAPER WILL TELL YOU . |
11 | He 's formed a useful partnership with Gordon Hunter and may retain his place in spite of the fact that Tommy McIntyre and Neil Orr are again available . |
12 | I suspect that the driver thinks he 's using a sheet feeder . |
13 | He 's using a lot of natural sounds — kitchen percussion , crowd voices … all sorts of new devices … . |
14 | I mean , th th they 're just moving away from the issue , because it it 's using a psychoanalytic stories . |
15 | He 's using a veterinary ultrasound scanner adapted from machines used in maternity hospitals . |
16 | To keep him out of the trees he 's using a simple invention devised by Barnes Wallis for the Dambusters raid . |
17 | To keep him out of the trees he 's using a simple invention devised by Barnes Wallis for the Dambusters raid . |
18 | Instead of driving a modern combine harvester , he 's using a binder to cut the corn into sheaves . |
19 | I do n't remember it being that much last year , but she 's using a different board this year so maybe that 's something to do with it . |
20 | He 's declaring that he 's using a taxi and it costs him a hundred and sixty pound a month , every day back and forwards to work , well everyone knows that 's a lie cos she takes him to work |
21 | She 's to see a psychiatrist in the morning . ’ |
22 | ‘ So she 's to see a head man , is she ? |
23 | But honestly it 's make a date for next week , okay ? |
24 | And also , it 's not just Oxford Friends of the Earth who are involved now , it seems to be touching everybody , and people are just getting involved , and it 's generating a really nice air of enthusiasm and care , and I hope that people feel it 's beginning to be their rainforest festival . |
25 | ‘ Jane Cartwright 's broken a leg on those idiotic steps . |
26 | ‘ But it 's taught a lot of young people what enterprise comes down to today . |
27 | He 's taught a lot of people so much ’ . |
28 | He 's taught an awful lot of people , including myself , an awful lot of things . |
29 | I was thinking , I should n't let him talk like this , he 's drawing a net round me . |
30 | No at the moment it 's getti the tank the water tank is n't sealed , it 's drawing a lot of dust in , er we 've tried putting a cover over it and everything else and that 's what 's causing the sludging . |