Example sentences of "'s [adv] [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evan points to a hoist that 's slowly lowering the band 's gear down to ground level : ‘ When we played here last year , we were riding up and down in that thing . |
| 2 | Well it 's blatantly taking the piss , let's be honest , I mean , I ca n't muck around , I mean it 's blatantly taking the piss is n't it ? |
| 3 | Well it 's blatantly taking the piss , let's be honest , I mean , I ca n't muck around , I mean it 's blatantly taking the piss is n't it ? |
| 4 | I 've got me 'ands full wiv servin' an' lookin' after Rachel — that 's besides runnin' the 'ome . |
| 5 | And Heritage says it 's successfully riding the recession . |
| 6 | And Heritage says it 's successfully riding the recession . |
| 7 | And I would like to make another quote if I may , he was the one that talked about Scotland being the land of cakes , and brother Scots , where the women made the cakes but he 's only addressing the brother Scots . |
| 8 | he ferreted it out , but I , you know I said to Mike well if er , if he 's only chewing the paper |
| 9 | Primarily a religious holiday , it has also been for hundreds of years a secular holiday , often with a travelling showmen 's fair visiting the village at the time . |
| 10 | To pick up David 's point now , if this is the client who 's already running the house , the mortgage , it 's , you know , a few years old , they want to take out a further advance , for some house improvements , or something , then obviously they now need more , so it might be at this stage we then want a P S P for the remaining , you know , ten years , eleven years , twelve years , or whatever , because they 've borrowed some more money from the building society . |
| 11 | Mine 's just reading the emergency services have been informed of the surveys . |
| 12 | If you ask me , he 's one of those chaps whose marriage was so close and idyllic that he 'll never get over his wife 's death : he 's just passing the time as usefully as he can . |
| 13 | No it 's it 's just getting the rhythm of doing it really . |
| 14 | Criticised for looking miserable all the time , but others say his seriousness is a pretence and really he 's just taking the mickey out of himself . |
| 15 | Because surely he 's just enforcing the Minister 's policy . |
| 16 | And erm she 's just cooking the meal and she went upstairs went into her son 's bedroom , got his belt and hung herself and her children coming back from school and find that . |
| 17 | He 's just hiding the bat behind the pad . |
| 18 | He 's just inspecting the horse , ’ he added , glancing at Maggie with raised brows . |
| 19 | I think he 's just portraying the situation as it was , kind of sparring of each other , playing games with each other , you know that kind of fits it does n't it ? |
| 20 | ‘ She 's just keeping the answerphone on full time . ’ |
| 21 | It 's just having the money is n't it ? |
| 22 | He 's there , still curled up and still secured by the tape , but he must have wriggled his way through to here while you were down in the cellar ; he 's knocked over a table with the phone on it and he 's just turning the phone the right way up as you enter the lounge and see him . |
| 23 | He 's just doing the day shift . |
| 24 | That 's further compounding the maintenance burden on the I T department or the information systems provider . |
| 25 | ( It should be noted in passing that yet further confusion — and pain to me — was added by Tony Geraghty 's once associating the incident of the missing plane with the unfortunate Operation Loyton , in which the S.A.S. troops posted missing are now known to have been tortured and shot by the Gestapo . ) |
| 26 | It 's rapidly reaching the stage where he 's becoming a danger , not only to himself , but to others on the shop-floor . ’ |
| 27 | I think Bryony likes erm Smarties because she 's always sucking the juice out of beans . |
| 28 | She 's always reading the fashion mags and spends loads of money on clothes . |
| 29 | And when I do he 's always watching the cricket . ’ |
| 30 | I mean some people were quite willing to answer it and they were quite willing to say what stereotypes they usually employ and others j er just clam up and said , oh I never judge people , and I thought yeah liar doing all the time ? biggest gossips in the office and she 's never got a good word to say about anyone , she 's always digging the dirt but when I presented her with it , I never try to judge people . |