Example sentences of "[noun sg] 's [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today the black ghetto 's become a model for everybody 's experience : the city 's no longer a place of opportunity but a ‘ hell ’ to be survived . |
| 2 | And Oxford fans will be taking heart that the side 's enjoying a good run at the moment and may yet avoid relegation . |
| 3 | Well the , the first ones that we made going down from here , the car 's making a racket , the stereo 's like on full blast you ca n't hear anything we 're saying at all . |
| 4 | I 'm not coming on anywhere , I 'm sitting down I 'm having a rest Mummy 's having a rest . |
| 5 | The wind 's dropping a bit , anyhow , and she 'll be all safe and snug in Halfway House . |
| 6 | Hungerford gunman Michael Ryan was a Dunmore member … now the club 's offering a reward for any information which helps get these pistols worth 7,000 pounds back under lock and key . |
| 7 | Its local MP sympathises — he says the committee 's made a big mistake . |
| 8 | Granny 's taking a tiny one along to the kitchen . |
| 9 | The work 's become a bit more mysterious . |
| 10 | The work 's become a bit more mysterious . |
| 11 | They had a video , about two songs back , where this bloke 's following a woman and she 's looking around . |
| 12 | Then having to kill forty minutes when he could have been in bed and now this : the delay in visiting the dry cleaner 's meant a vital piece of evidence might have been destroyed . |
| 13 | Cat 's having a fight by the look of it . |
| 14 | Yeah good old cat 's having a Mum 'll be dead chuffed , I 've cleaned the toilet . |
| 15 | There may also be stronger incentives as a result of management 's having a significant equity stake in the company , and the stringent repayment conditions that banks and other institutions attach to the finance they provide to make the buy-out possible . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , my plan 's to form a British chapter of the Monkey Wrench Gang and blow the bugger to pieces . |
| 17 | For the next three months , the museum 's running a competition to find new cartooning talent . |
| 18 | The lady 's watching a wildlife programme I reckon , cos all of a sudden she says'I was bitten by a tiger once . ’ |
| 19 | Many of the parents who object to their child 's attending a school at which a place has been allocated by the LEA claim to be opposed simply on religious or educational grounds . |
| 20 | ‘ Council 's turned a blind eye to it previously but I 'm in charge now and I 'm booking you under the Fireworks and Public Entertainments byelaw . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ My make-up 's faded a bit now , but when everything 's together I look — well , I look pretty good actually . ’ |
| 22 | But as it was Dod , I took my fifty quid and free ploughman 's lunches ( not that Canning Town 's seen a ploughman since Shakespeare packed 'em in over at the Globe in Southwark ) and we humped boxes and sat in traffic jams and set the world to rights . |
| 23 | Er I mean if a particular group 's promoting a product which we 're already using , then I might switch investment to that product if there 's a big discount . |
| 24 | That 's the sixty four thousand dollar question because you 've now lost ten years and the hill 's getting a wee bit steeper again |
| 25 | But daddy 's looking a bit worried , he 's doing the washing up . |
| 26 | Daddy 's having a ca , chaos going on in there ! |
| 27 | The whole of what 's usually called the Intelligence Community 's feeling a bit frisky at the moment . |
| 28 | Because Miguel , in the same incident , has been bitten but not seriously injured , Sarah tries to save him by cutting off his infected arm with a machete — an effect that failed to work with the first model , until an assistant of Savini 's used a spare rubber arm with the cut prefilled with wax . |
| 29 | " Ah , dear fellow , " she said to Andrew , " pick up my feathers for me would you — I think the room 's getting a bit chilly . |
| 30 | One of the few things he could instantly recall from his own brief marriage was his wife 's grilling a kipper on a gridiron over the fire . |