Example sentences of "'s [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hanging on by a thread |
| 2 | You 've got to look at them from different angles , see if there 's any smoke bellowing out from anywhere , or somebody 's hanging out of a window . |
| 3 | Now she 's stepping blithely through a door |
| 4 | So Steve took on the singer 's mantle , but how does he think he 's shaping up as a guitarist/vocalist ? |
| 5 | I think that 's , that 's pretty consistent , probably with how bands are formed , actually , is n't it , its friends of friends , and somebody knows somebody else , and somebody 's looking round for a drummer , just happens that somebody mentions it to somebody else . |
| 6 | I worry about my daughter , she 's growing up in a world where things are inevitably going ’ Asked whether he may just possibly have got it all wrong , Hopkins pauses melodramatically . |
| 7 | That 's because it 's going round in a circle — like the Shuttle , and me on my space walk . |
| 8 | She 's going away in a couple of weeks with the Brownies |
| 9 | It 's a shame it 's going on under a microscope , spotlight or whatever but erm . |
| 10 | Our Dawn thinks she 's going just for a tea party when they to ask her to drink owt she just takes her time and drinks it . |
| 11 | Then he 's going off to a party . |
| 12 | We make do with the dole and Ellie 's going in with a friend who 's just started a café which 'll help with the food . |
| 13 | Alright , he 's going out with a girl called Laura , he 's coming onto her sister but he thinks he 's in love with Sally . |
| 14 | Some girl 's going out with a boy , he zipped her tent up over them and she was so shocked she pulled her trousers down by accident . |
| 15 | Nell McCafferty , the Derry-born writer and civil rights activist , poignantly remembered family prayers from the 1950s : ‘ God send John a job ; God send Jackie and Rosaleen a house ; Holy Mother of God look down on Peggy in America and Leo in England ; Jesus and His Blessed Mother protect Mary that 's going out with a sailor . ' |
| 16 | Joan 's just rung see they come over for , all of them come over for dinner every Sunday , and er Joan 's er Andrea 's going out with a crowd of them today she 's in with a nice girl a girl er married and the husband , he 's treats Andrea as if it 's a baby sister , so he 's more or less looking after her which is Joan 's very pleased about |
| 17 | Oh Mary 's going out for a drink as well . |
| 18 | ‘ At the rate he 's working up he 's heading straight for a crisis some time today . ’ |
| 19 | You 've got an S O four with two bonds on it and it 's holding on to a hydrogen |
| 20 | She said , I hear the Empire , or , or hear The Garden 's doing well on a Friday night . |
| 21 | So that 's doing away with a person 's er wage is n't it . |
| 22 | But the stepfather of the Idaho beauty objects to his daughter 's running off with a commentator . |
| 23 | No you you do n't have to rub out the line you can just draw another one as if it 's coming out from a bit you ca n't see . |
| 24 | Your heart 's ticking away like a clock . |
| 25 | She 's sitting there with a fag hanging out her mouth . |
| 26 | he sits , he 's sitting there like a fly squad , |
| 27 | When he 's settling down for a sleep … |
| 28 | A legendary shepherd 's doxy who , by supposedly giving birth to a sheep , transposed herself into a creature of myth ; an 18th-century joiner 's apprentice who saw an angel ; odd echoes from the agricultural riots of the 1830s ; an imaginative squire 's hollowing out of a chalk horse on the downs . |