Example sentences of "'s [adv] [v-ing] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No she 's only staying tonight and they think , they just phoned me up then and they were on the square , I think she 's going home phorr what 's that smell , it stinks what ? |
| 2 | She 's only shopping today because of a family crisis stopped her doing so in the week . |
| 3 | My husband 's always coming home and saying ‘ Oh I sat down and talked to so-and-so today ’ or ‘ we had a laugh today with so-and-so … ’ |
| 4 | When asked why he chose ‘ Horizon ’ as the name for the ensemble he formed in 1980 , Bobby Watson answered : ‘ Because I define the word as ‘ a vision that 's both moving forward and forward looking ’ — that 's what my concept of the band is ’ . |
| 5 | He 's looking away so that you ca n't catch his eye ; he 's also looking away because what he can see over your shoulder is more interesting than your shoulder . |
| 6 | ‘ When it 's really flaming away and it 's the wood burning and not the Paraffin , then you put the lid back on loose , It may be that you 've over-filled , which is fine . |
| 7 | That 's now going more than 80 mph . |
| 8 | It 's very easy then of course to punish the person er who communicates that with you er which ultimately can can er totally divorce an organisation from the reality of what it 's actually doing so that kind of philosophy , very destructive in terms of er effective communication . |
| 9 | ‘ Today I 've taken 50 and it 's definitely selling well but mainly to students and English rugby fans . ’ |