Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if yours is looking poorly , hack it out and replace it . |
| 2 | That hair of yours is getting right long . |
| 3 | She is meeting Christian Aid partners to gauge their views on the future of Hong Kong . |
| 4 | To get the Income Support a person must be available for full time work and show that he or she is taking reasonable steps to find a job . |
| 5 | Usually they are quite capable of doing this for themselves , but if your elderly parent turns to you for advice on financial matters your main aims should be : I. To make sure that she is receiving all the State benefits and pensions to which she may be entitled . |
| 6 | She is wearing one of her uncompromising green Peruvian ponchos . |
| 7 | She is wearing some beads now , hidden for the moment under her clothes . ) |
| 8 | As she flies through the dark , or gallops on the horse of night , she is using different skills from those of our daytime world . |
| 9 | If she makes sure she is looking good , feeling good , working well , she has a better chance of taking a cool look at him from a distance and deciding if she really wants him in her life . |
| 10 | Not many women reach her years and have as much — for everything he can imagine her wanting he hastens to provide ; and it is bestowed as if she were a young and lovely creature at her first ball , and when he helps her down the stairs or into a taxi — for she is getting frail — he turns her into Gloriana . |
| 11 | Perhaps she is getting bored , ’ said Breeze , and read on . |
| 12 | But I have told her all the stories and rhymes I know and she is getting bored . |
| 13 | Now she is enjoying simple pleasures like a trip to the park again . |
| 14 | Suppose a girl under 16 does not wish her parents to know that she is seeking contraceptive advice : the medical profession is divided between those who give priority to partial consent , and others who , in line with the General Medical Council , hold that the principle of professional confidentiality overrides that of parental consent . |
| 15 | Now that Carol Phillips is no longer involved in the nitty gritty of running the company , she is devoting more of her time to the service area of Clinique . |
| 16 | Miss Anthony 's London agent tells me : ‘ Lysette is filming The Hour of The Pig , in France , at the moment and it is true she is discussing some forthcoming projects , but I can not tell you what they are . ’ |
| 17 | of Gillhouse Farm , Zeal Monachorum , is a rare breed enthusiast who bred this year 's champion Berkshire pig at the Devon County Show , she is exporting three large Blacks , ( two gilts and a boar ) and one Chester boar to a pig breeder in Port Stanley . |
| 18 | I construe this agreement as a promise by the husband to pay his wife 30s. a week in consideration of her promise to maintain herself during the time she is living separate from him , whether due to her own fault or not . |
| 19 | The really worrying thing is that Marie is said to have obtained improved terms from suppliers ( understandable , given that she is ordering larger quantities ) . |
| 20 | I believe she is writing fewer poems . |
| 21 | ‘ She is seeing other men . ’ |
| 22 | Because it is the mating act in cats that induces ovulation , it is possible in this way to start the female cat 's ovulation as if she is carrying male sperm . |
| 23 | She is affirming that delinquency is neither an inborn disposition nor something the child has contrived by himself ; that children learn to become delinquents by becoming members of groups in which delinquent conduct is already established and the ‘ thing to do ’ ; and that a child need not be ‘ different ’ from other children , that he need not have any twists or defects of personality or intelligence , in order to become a delinquent . |
| 24 | The local mum said the most effective way to teach Laura is to take her away from whatever she is doing wrong and keep saying ‘ no ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ The lady prefers not to have us reveal any details , only to say that she is doing this out of love for her late husband , ’ he said . |
| 26 | She is indicating that tiffin has been ready for some time and that if he does n't fancy it , the dog does . |
| 27 | But she is breathing unaided now and the doctors say she will be okay . ’ |
| 28 | With these LM potencies she is feeling stronger than ever without aggravation and is currently taking 0/7 . |
| 29 | Now she is able to eat again , although naturally only very little and often but already she is feeling stronger and is doing exercises to build up the muscles which had become so weak . |
| 30 | In a couple or family contract the patient and his partner , for example , may undertake to do things on a reciprocal basis ( e.g. a husband agrees to organize weekly social outings for he and his wife , while she agrees to tell him when she is feeling distressed , rather than keeping her feelings to herself ) . |