Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cor she 's getting a fluffy coat is n't she , now ? |
| 2 | She 's getting a twenty five pound voucher for doing this from Marks and Spencers . |
| 3 | She 's buying quite a cheap one I think she 's buying a million |
| 4 | ‘ She 's wearing a fabulous black silk sheath dress and satin shoes . |
| 5 | She 's wearing a yellow paisley dress and she smells of flour . |
| 6 | She 's wearing a slinky black mini-skirt and slinky black top , but it is not , apparently , erotic enough . |
| 7 | She 's wearing a white dress . |
| 8 | So she 's spending a third on stationery , she 's saving a third and the other third has got to be split up between |
| 9 | Frustratingly , the habit persists even when she 's holding a strong hand . |
| 10 | I do n't remember it being that much last year , but she 's using a different board this year so maybe that 's something to do with it . |
| 11 | Look at that she 's scoffed a Picnic bar , now she 's scoffing a bloody Crunchie ! |
| 12 | ‘ She 's doing a good job on sorting this Huerter thing , too . |
| 13 | But I think she 's doing a good job of bringing Thomas up I must say . . |
| 14 | ‘ I gather she 's making a great success of the English branch of the business . ’ |
| 15 | Now she 's opening a new science block as part of a two million pound development at Barnwood Park School in Gloucester . |
| 16 | you know , if she 's covering a whole area . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's in the cottage hospital , still unconscious as far as I know — I 've left one of my boys there in case she comes to , but she 's running a high temperature and they 're afraid of bronchial pneumonia . |
| 18 | So she 's spending a third on stationery , she 's saving a third and the other third has got to be split up between |
| 19 | ‘ She 's having a good time , ’ Nevil laughed . |
| 20 | When Mother Pig tells Tottie that she 's having a new baby , and that it might arrive on Tottie 's birthday , Tottie is n't very happy . |
| 21 | Well , she 's having a new one put on . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's having a bad day , ’ came the wry explanation . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's having a short stay in hospital at the moment so that I can have a holiday . |
| 24 | She 's launching a unique register that will hold information on every horse in three counties . |
| 25 | Jancey is talking all the time , like she 's coaxing a wounded dog . |
| 26 | ‘ She 's becoming a Genestealer , ’ babbled Googol . |
| 27 | erm , and er , sometimes even pleased to say well I 'll try to get you in purple , but er , nowadays erm , we , we do n't go in for that because there 's , there 's so many er shops now that selling lighting fittings erm and selling nothing else , there is n't one actually in Harlow , but there 's one in Epping and there 's one in Stortford , erm that er , it 's , it 's riding a new car people want to see er a good variety of them , have a look at a lot or a washing machine or anything like that , you want to see many before you buy one . |
| 28 | It 's terribly unfashionable , so it 's getting a new coat of paint at the Old Fire Station In Oxford . |
| 29 | That 's it , it 's getting a little bit annoying . |
| 30 | The working party on the theology of marriage is finding its task stimulating but arduous and it will surprise no one that it 's taking a long time . |