Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well , so far she 's just sketching with pencil or Conte stick . ’
2 She 's just dying of embarrassment . ’
3 As you might expect , Texas Instruments Inc is pressing the high performance per MHz it 's reportedly getting from Viking : its SPEC sheets claim the 50MHz cycle time is scalable to 100MHz ‘ over time ’ and the four-way multi-processing that will supposedly offer a peak of 600 MIPS is scalable to 1200 MIPS again ‘ over time ’ .
4 It 's simply asking for trouble , ’ she said .
5 We are customers of a massive industry trying to make money and I understand that for some it 's just staying in business that counts .
6 Er I mean if he were responsive and would work and would try things for himself but it , it 's , it 's like hacking at concrete with a knife .
7 He 's walking like that , it 's like walking round town with a bloody magnet on your back you know he 's there , he 's there .
8 I 've do It 's like it 's like practising for football I mean you might be the best footballer in the world and you say you know they say well you 've just won the cup say
9 No , but er I mean he 's even marrying into trouble .
10 He 's just recovering of course .
11 He 's probably counting on family connections to get you on the cheap !
12 Pound may be right or wrong about the merits of Binyon 's version , as about the sorts of language that are acceptable in verse translation ; what is certain is that he 's here applying to diction a sort of sliding scale or set of variable standards such as Ford 's principles did n't allow for .
13 He 's currently appearing in hamburger medium-rare , salad , no fries and a glass of house red .
14 He 's now recovering at home .
15 He 's now recovering at home .
16 He 's now recovering at hospital in Oxford .
17 It 's alright he 's only playing with dog look .
18 That does n't mean he 's going to draw it , he 's actually drawing on average this guy around a thousand , hundred pounds , one thousand two hundred pounds he 's been thousand pounds , but he 's actually drawing one thousand two .
19 He 's better looking on TV … ’
20 He 's obviously complaining of pain or discomfort , ’ Lindsey commented .
21 The record card for such a client was scribbled over with the comment of dealers : " He 's about to buy a house ; has no funds ; he 'll see how the shares he already has do ; he 's going in for Rolls Royce , so has no money ; he 's still waiting for share certificates — once these have arrived he will think about further investment . "
22 I do , I er , well I presume he 's still working in fact , with this er with the bank .
23 Because th th th th there , there 'd been statements from Mao until the end of nineteen forty five where he 's still talking about land to the tiller being some way off
24 And he 's still fighting for compensation from his former captors .
25 I mean he 's fairly lacking in confidence and whatever ?
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