Example sentences of "'s [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm coming up a hill near some kind of huge church or cathedral — there must 've been a service or a concert going on because people are pouring out — one of them 's singing a high trill and her boyfriend 's cross : ‘ Please , Miranda ! |
| 2 | One moment Harvey sounds like she 's trapped in a particularly unpleasant psychodrama , the next she 's singing an exuberant snatch of I 'm Gon na Wash that Man Right Out of My Hair . |
| 3 | BUT FAX MACHINES HAVE PLENTY OF SHORTCOMINGS , AS ANYONE WHO 'S RECEIVED AN INDECIPHERABLE SCRAP OF PAPER WILL TELL YOU . |
| 4 | He 's formed a useful partnership with Gordon Hunter and may retain his place in spite of the fact that Tommy McIntyre and Neil Orr are again available . |
| 5 | To keep him out of the trees he 's using a simple invention devised by Barnes Wallis for the Dambusters raid . |
| 6 | To keep him out of the trees he 's using a simple invention devised by Barnes Wallis for the Dambusters raid . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 's using a veterinary ultrasound scanner adapted from machines used in maternity hospitals . |
| 9 | ‘ So she 's to see a head man , is she ? |
| 10 | He 's taught an awful lot of people , including myself , an awful lot of things . |
| 11 | He 's joined a growing band of young homeless in Oxfordshire . |
| 12 | For businesses affected by the strike , it 's proving a long wait . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's a very busy man , but he has not missed a session , and he 's proving a great asset . |
| 14 | People think , well now , here 's a man who 's been accused of fraud and so forth and shortly after that it comes out that he 's given a big thing to the government . |
| 15 | BRITISH actress Emily Lloyd is all smiles after watching the Hollywood premiere of In The Soup — but she 's nursing an aching heart . |
| 16 | With his friend , Michael Whitehall , he 's producing a new drama series for ITV called , The Good Guys , starring himself and Keith Barron . |
| 17 | And Oxford fans will be taking heart that the side 's enjoying a good run at the moment and may yet avoid relegation . |
| 18 | But the best chances were at the other end , and John Durnin who 's enjoying a new lease of life on the south coast should have set the ball rolling before half-time . |
| 19 | She 's developed a steady business and a strong social life at her church . |
| 20 | He 's designed an airborne moth trap , bolted to the side of his microlight plane . |
| 21 | He 's designed an airborne moth trap , bolted to the side of his microlight plane . |
| 22 | He 's committed a libellous slander , based on heresay , making the most obscene remarks about Katherine and the marriage not being consummated . |
| 23 | But since then he 's won a Second Division promotion medal and is near the top of the Premier League . |
| 24 | " You probably think my life 's some kind of tragedy , but I 'll tell you — one of the hardest parts of it 's keeping a straight face . |
| 25 | Her father , a net maker , earned a " scanty subsistence " which was " not much enlarged by my mother 's keeping a little day-school for the girls in her neighbourhood " . |
| 26 | Say six ohms on each of these in parallel and two ohms there and that 's say a twelve volt battery erm could you work out the current in that resistor ? |
| 27 | She 's launching a unique register that will hold information on every horse in three counties . |
| 28 | Now she 's opening a new science block as part of a two million pound development at Barnwood Park School in Gloucester . |
| 29 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 30 | She 's delighted a local team has won . |