Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | She tells him she is taking Sycorax for a piss and the man backs away , scared , and lets them turn behind their dwelling . |
| 5 | She is receiving treatment for the weight-loss disorder anorexia nervosa at Rampton top security hospital . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She is re-taking mathematics O level in November and after private tuition is expected to gain a C grade . |
| 9 | Show that you are as interested in how she is enjoying school as in achieving good marks . |
| 10 | Once again though she is enjoying pre-eminence in the taste or pre-adolescent spring — as evinced by the success of the song ‘ Stay ’ . |
| 11 | She is seeking funding for a range of projects from tailoring and knitting bazaars to poultry raising . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If he considers that she is refusing intercourse unreasonably , his remedy is a matrimonial one . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ If she 's not playing in tournaments then she is giving exhibition matches . |
| 20 | She is proposing electrification of the line between Middlesbrough , Eaglescliffe and Northallerton and so to London . |
| 21 | She is doing surgery elective at WGH whilst is working at EU Psychology with 's longstanding friend and colleague Professor . |
| 22 | She is finding life very tough and depressing , stuck in her room , her baby in hospital , with little hope on the horizon of a proper home or family life . |
| 23 | She is patting Xanthe softly now , dreamily , and she stands her up and drops the nightdress with the rabbits over the little girl 's head , and turns her to fasten the top pearl button at the back . |
| 24 | She is making life difficult for Tommy and himself . |
| 25 | There is no way she is going subject her son to the degredation of bed and breakfast . |
| 26 | And the marriage is likely to be far happier than if she is working flat out while she is at home and blaming her husband for giving her no help . |
| 27 | The mother who lives only through her children will face an empty future , for she is losing touch with the source of her own life , identifying with her creations and expecting them to sustain her . |
| 28 | There has been no aggravation , the blood pressure is normal , the spells are infrequent now , and she is losing weight with improved energy . |
| 29 | She is studying English , history , French and Spanish at A-level and English at S level and , as something of an all-rounder , says she enjoys sport as ‘ inexpert fun . ’ |
| 30 | Mrs X is at present attending a college where she is studying science , and desperately wishes to take up embalming as a career , but unfortunately this is where the problem begins . |