Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yours is coming Bec . |
| 2 | ‘ Thank you , but my maid will do so ; she is drinking tea in the servants ’ quarters , and will come as soon as she is sent for . ’ |
| 3 | This has been brought by Joan Weiss , niece and heir of Armand Hammer 's wife , Frances , and she is laying claim to a large share of the collection . |
| 4 | ‘ She is translating Masai songs and gossip . ’ |
| 5 | And there is still plenty to do in the garden where she is planting vegetables and some more varieties of fruit trees . |
| 6 | She 's doing , spending as much time doing tea and she sees , as she is phoning prospects . |
| 7 | And as to Spasov and being saved — ‘ Il me semble que tout le monde va à Spassof ’ — there is still some comic devillife in him as he quotes the Saviour against his bible-selling saviour because she is taking thought for the morrow , and as he turns the gospel on its head with ‘ Happiness does n't pay me because I start at once forgiving all my enemies . ’ |
| 8 | She tells him she is taking Sycorax for a piss and the man backs away , scared , and lets them turn behind their dwelling . |
| 9 | She is receiving treatment for the weight-loss disorder anorexia nervosa at Rampton top security hospital . |
| 10 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |
| 11 | The suggestion that he is not supporting her while she is receiving benefit can not therefore be taken as positive evidence that their relationship is not comparable to that of husband and wife . |
| 12 | In fact , all a person would need to do in the middle of a Darkfall storm would be to remain calm , not touch anything — unless he or she is wearing gloves and wait for the effect to pass . |
| 13 | She is masturbating Martin with one hand , whilst taking Dave in the mouth . |
| 14 | She is re-taking mathematics O level in November and after private tuition is expected to gain a C grade . |
| 15 | CORONATION Street star Lynne Perrie was said to be improving in the hospital where she is undergoing tests following her collapse two days ago . |
| 16 | Ivy better : Coronation Street actress Lynne Perrie , who plays Ivy Brennan , was said to be ‘ slightly improved ’ today in hospital where she is undergoing tests following her collapse on the set of the series three days ago . |
| 17 | Show that you are as interested in how she is enjoying school as in achieving good marks . |
| 18 | Once again though she is enjoying pre-eminence in the taste or pre-adolescent spring — as evinced by the success of the song ‘ Stay ’ . |
| 19 | She is seeking funding for a range of projects from tailoring and knitting bazaars to poultry raising . |
| 20 | She is learning German , working on the biography of a distant relative , a Victorian actor , and has been able to offer help from her long experience of managing a large cottage garden to the wife of the curator of Milton 's cottage at Chalfont St. Giles . |
| 21 | Now settled here , she is helping Bunty Matthias with co-ordination for Harlemation , and has danced on Neneh Cherry 's video for ‘ Inner City Mama ’ , putting into practise her experience from the early Manhattan break-dancing scene . |
| 22 | She is helping hubbie Morgan Mason — son of movie-star James — fight for his share of his father 's millions after everything was left to his stepmother . |
| 23 | This simple ‘ bootstrapping ’ approach to language suggests a specific strategy by which teachers and therapists might capitalise on areas of relative competence in order to assist a child in those areas where she is experiencing difficulty . |
| 24 | If he considers that she is refusing intercourse unreasonably , his remedy is a matrimonial one . |
| 25 | Lois Lane , manageress of the Fenham Fund , has no views about the general level of futures prices for the commodities she is considering trading , but does have a view about relative price movements , in that she expects the price of kryptonite futures to rise relative to that of phlogiston futures . |
| 26 | She is carrying Ali 's adopted ten-month-son , Asaad Amin Ali . |
| 27 | And there is still another way of understanding time , which is that when a mother gives birth , she is giving birth to time itself , to a ‘ life-time ’ , and she is thus in some sense beyond time itself . |
| 28 | She is beyond time , and yet she is giving birth to time itself At the moment of birth , her baby is the very youngest member of the human race , its star of hope and its future . |
| 29 | ‘ If she 's not playing in tournaments then she is giving exhibition matches . |
| 30 | We must admit that it looks to us like a very good match , and it is only because she is marrying Steven that she has such an idealized view of what men and marriage are really like . |