Example sentences of "'s [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's helping in a scheme started by the Rural Development Commission , and backed up by the Workout Charity . |
| 2 | Less often , it 's her sleep that 's broken by a scream , and my turn to move across her in a sweat of protectiveness . |
| 3 | Put down that Gameboy and your copy of Madonna 's Sex , clean up the mess , pour yourself a pale cream sherry and mull over the year that 's drawing to a close . |
| 4 | Ingleborough 's steep sides always manage to give the impression that the top of the hill has been sliced off ; when it 's cloaked in a mist cap , you can almost imagine a cone-shaped summit . |
| 5 | It 's treated like a child and gets so jealous . |
| 6 | His student visa is only valid as long as he 's enrolled at a school , so we went to Clive and tried to get him expelled . |
| 7 | Turning his scorn on to Republic of Ireland boss Jack Charlton , Dunphy snorted : ‘ They play like Wimbledon , yet he 's regarded as a hero ! |
| 8 | ‘ Help ! ’ — schloomp , schloomph , schloomp — he 's fallen into a mangrove swamp ! |
| 9 | ‘ We 've got someone coming in on a blue light , a young man who 's fallen under a train . |
| 10 | erm , he 's seeing to a bit of rust for me |
| 11 | Mr and Mrs P saw no prospect of the housing market 's recovering at a rate fast enough to overtake the income shortfall or , still less , the rate at which their overall debt was steadily increasing . |
| 12 | Before 9.15 , phrases that will have been used include : ‘ a lethal dose of my love rod ’ ; ‘ young girls ’ love juices ’ ; ‘ a good fist-fucking ’ ; ‘ all your fudge-packing ’ ; ‘ the mark of a man across your bun ’ ; ‘ most people have carried your hand baggage ’ ; ‘ he 's recovering from a rogering in the toilet ’ and ‘ he 's pouring a hand shandy in the car park ’ . |
| 13 | She was profoundly scarred by her father 's suicide in 1976 , and blames the tragedy on the mental stress caused by the Wilson government 's reneging on a fighter bomber deal he had set up with Sweden . |
| 14 | He does erupt occasionally , but it 's forgotten in a moment . |
| 15 | ‘ Your wrap 's caught on a nail , ’ he warned , in a voice with the kind of husky foreign accent which , should he decide to recite the phone book , would still be entirely enchanting . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's caught like a rat in a trap , then . ’ |
| 17 | Both ends appear to be fixed , but it 's vibrating like a violin string . ’ |
| 18 | What 's happening in a blast furnace ? |
| 19 | Dolores O'Riordan and three other blokes and me are sitting in a van that 's parked in a yard behind Charlie 's Bar where later on The Cranberries will bring tears to the eyes of grown men and ensure that all present can say ‘ yes ’ when asked if their weekend was happy and filled with nice things . |
| 20 | My foot feels like it 's trapped in a mangle , and she shouts in my face that I 'd better not address a lady in that tone . |
| 21 | Ooh , he was funny though , he was coming like that , and he 's dying for a stroke |
| 22 | When he 's rescued from a bar room brawl , Michael meets Alex ( Rob Lowe ) , a charismatic drifter who plays at life by his own rules . |
| 23 | Taking a page out of Microsoft Corp 's book , Intel Corp has a bunch of ‘ undocumented ’ features in Pentium that it 's collected in a thing called ‘ Appendix H , ’ reports our sister publication ClieNT Server NEWS . |
| 24 | It 's unsettling for a girl . ’ |
| 25 | Non-executive directors , that is a strength erm it 's also a threat but it is also a strength but basically it 's acting as a sort of yardstick to control or actually guide the actual management right down from board level right down the company there . |
| 26 | The central allegation in what 's certain to be a bitterly contested case , is that B A has a monopoly based on its dominance of Heathrow , which it 's abusing in a bid to force Virgin out of the market for transatlantic travel . |
| 27 | No-one 's listening to a word you 're saying Tim . |
| 28 | and he 's listening to a tape that his mum has sent him . |
| 29 | Once again , it 's flagging below a level which would give him confidence for London , yet his form over shorter distances has been good , highlighted recently by a new course record of 38:20 at the Thorney 12K in Peterborough . |
| 30 | Currently he 's absorbed in a piece of work on a theme he calls Love Story , which will also be a sequential piece , though in different form to The Cricketer . |