Example sentences of "'s [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He 's since written a 4-volume history of wartime intelligence and has little doubt about Bletchley 's significance .
2 She 's since made a complete recovery and Mona 's consultant says she ows everything to Janet .
3 He 's since made a full recovery and now has a realistic chance of becoming Lotus 's first world champion since Mario Andretti .
4 He 's on yes , he 's only getting a little present cos I 'm still paying for his camcorder till next month .
5 She 's obviously having a wonderful time .
6 Christie 's meanwhile set a new auction price record for a stamp in its New York dispersal of the Weill Brothers ' stock .
7 No easy task , but it 's already proving a great success , as Richard Barnett reports :
8 you know maybe I am the sort of person they 're looking for who 's already done a little bit of surveying erm to join as a dogsbody and then over the two years or four years however long it does take erm you know slowly presumably you just get given more responsibilities .
9 The county council 's already provided an advisory route directing lorries away from the town centre — now it 's going one step further , banning all vehicles weighing more than seven and a half tonnes .
10 Erm , and she 's just getting a new car , erm , unfortunately about two year ago , she had an accident in a Nova , well , her mam was driving , and they have n't had a car for two years , so she 's just recently getting an Orion , erm , one point eight , diesel , all the body kit , and very , very nice .
11 I 'm , I 'm getting there it 's just taking a long while .
12 it 's just taking a long time .
13 ‘ She 's inundated with work over there she 's just done a 13-part sitcom for CBS , for example . ’
14 to do , she 's just offering a different way of doing it .
15 I said to Sandra , well this job business Bev , he 's not said a bloody word to me this morning he 's , in actual fact he 's been
16 Profits have dropped by a fifth to £34.8 million in the first half of this year , and he 's not expecting an early recovery .
17 Well actually it jus , he 's not having a bad time .
18 He says in 20 years he 's not known a similar accident .
19 If they do it too much then the farrier 's not doing a good job
20 So you know quarter to a third and er it 's not got a lot of land with it and of course it 's not mentioned a great deal in directories .
21 he 's not doing so well now is he ? , he used to , he 's not won a high ranking tournament since nineteen eighty nine
22 The government 's soon to host an international summit on drugs .
23 So she was , she was into Volkswagen Polos , she 's always liked a little run-around , she 'd like a Volkswagen Polo , and .
24 Well it 's always takes a long time .
25 It 's always held a special meaning for me , and when the development is completed I have every intention of moving back into the area and making my home here .
26 Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you .
27 I mean , so there 's he 's still making a reasonable mark- up on that .
28 I think he 's like flogging a dead horse here I really do !
29 Yeah it literally it 's like sticking a sticking plaster on your legs and pulling it off .
30 It 's like fighting a losing battle is n't it ?
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