Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're lucky in a way that he 's there , and lucky , too , that he 's got his music and that it 's bringing him a name , for it 's some sort of compensation in the meantime , helping his waiting . ’ |
| 2 | P'raps she 's findin' it a bit melancholy bein' wiv 'im ? ’ |
| 3 | It 's understanding what the need is and understanding what need you can actually supply . |
| 4 | Yes , they 're all trained in first aid , erm erm and in the use er we also carry the analgesic gas , now the ones that er nitric oxide which is used in er pregnant mothers for childbirth , they carry some of that now , er which they administer to people in pain and that takes away the pain erm for the time being anyway , until such time as you can extricate them or , or ease the pain or take away the problem away from them that 's causing them the pain . |
| 5 | So he 's shouting it the boy like . |
| 6 | Do n't you think that the Dixie horn 's pushing it a bit ? ’ |
| 7 | Although I would also say that I do n't suppose there are very many Councillors that do n't actually , at the end of the day , being a Councillor is costing them a lot of money and those members ' allowances are very , very small and they certainly in my case nowhere near cover the cost of being a County Councillor . |
| 8 | Believe me , that monster is costing me a fortune ! ’ |
| 9 | A firm of road hauliers which has fourteen trucks stuck in the lorry blockade in France says the dispute is costing it a fortune . |
| 10 | He 's costing me a fortune in tights — I wondered who 'd been taking them at first . |
| 11 | I do n't think I 'm going to buy you any thing else or else this holiday 's costing me a fortune . |
| 12 | It 's costing her a lot of money . |
| 13 | It 's costing us a bit of money but er , you know , we do n't do these things for the short term , er |
| 14 | Erm I mean I I have some concerns , like Cynthia , about the number of careers officers who suddenly appear when you say there 's a visit to , Hull University , and we 've got people coming from all over the county and it 's costing us a fortune . |
| 15 | That 's costing us a lot of money . ’ |
| 16 | That 's costing us a lot of money . ’ |
| 17 | If the bags are full of rotting food , or there is a smell or filth around the place , then more action may need to be taken , but the first priority is establishing what the person concerned feels , before asking ‘ Would it be helpful for someone to come in and give a hand with tidying up ? ’ |
| 18 | This is saving me the trouble . ’ |
| 19 | or NAAN , I do n't care , so long you include it at the end of your first appointments because at the end of the day all you 're doing is saving yourself a bit of time , and that 's the whole purpose of ANNA to make sure that when you go back on your second appointment , this guy is committed to do something . |
| 20 | I 'm not and I tell you honest it 's , it is frightening me a bit . |
| 21 | Undoubtedly , the skill of medical care in all specialties is balancing what the patient will accept with what the patient should accept . |
| 22 | If ; when your parents begin to draw a National Insurance retirement pension , they go on working , or their former employer is paying them a pension , their code will need to be changed so as to take into account the National Insurance pension . |
| 23 | She is mother of a family that possesses 13 cubes , which is overdoing it a bit , I reckon . |
| 24 | As I say it 's one of these er competitive market things , but if you go into an electrical shop and you buy a piece of electrical equipment , or if you want er a plug for it , a piece of electrical equipment because you found out that the plug on the electrical equipment at home is defective , it 's got cracked porcelain or something like , then please have a word with the person who is selling you the plug and say look , this plug is gon na be fitted on X appliance . |
| 25 | Dad said he 's buying me a hotel . |
| 26 | Not like a big one to share like she 's buying everybody a cake each . |
| 27 | a book that 's lasting them a term and they start getting trouble and he gets you know messed about |
| 28 | He 's sending me a message . ’ |
| 29 | Mother she 's calling me a bastard . |
| 30 | Our man on the back page explains why he 's calling it a day |