Example sentences of "'s [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect he 's resting in another part of the library . |
| 2 | ‘ At home you hardly know whether it 's raining from one day to the next but here you feel better every time the sun comes out . |
| 3 | The light 's flashing on this screen you know , |
| 4 | ‘ She certainly seems to be enjoying life now , ’ said Greg — and then , realizing this was open to misunderstanding , he added : ‘ I do n't mean now that Hilda is dead , of course — I just mean she 's revelling in this revival of interest in Walter Machin . ’ |
| 5 | What 's happening to this house ? ’ and Agnes , as she made her way to the linen cupboard , called back over her shoulder , ‘ You 've got the answer to that , Mother , if you dare to face up to it , ’ which left Alice Conway open-mouthed and dumb . |
| 6 | I do n't know what 's happening to this place . ’ |
| 7 | Well look what 's happening to these test papers . |
| 8 | You obviously need to know what 's happening on each side of the hedge . |
| 9 | Very important for the physics , because what 's happening at that point as far as the physics is concerned , when the acceleration is zero , not , think of a racing car accelerating up to top speed , down the straight and it just ca n't go any faster , it 's got up to a hundred and eighty miles an hour , and it 's |
| 10 | Here 's some advance warning of what 's happening at this year 's London Music Show , to be held at Wembley Conference Centre over the weekend of 28th and 29th November . |
| 11 | What 's happening about that boy ? ’ |
| 12 | In the same way , key performance indicators set up for each function are reviewed quarterly against its business plan with relevant managers ‘ but it 's not a dull , dry event : it 's when everybody pulls together , discussing everything that 's happening in great depth and giving managers the opportunity to explain to directors why they 're falling short , the constraints and obstacles , and so achieving agreement with the figures and the indicators used , ’ he said . |
| 13 | What 's happening in that hospital is nothing short of a crime . |
| 14 | Er , but that 's an indication of what 's happening in that area , and indeed , the members erm , I am pleased to say , have taken the right attitude to that , recognised that that 's the case and er addressing that , together with the revenue spend , erm , in a manner which I find is erm , of responsible and approved . |
| 15 | Now we 've got to race against time again , this is not just happening in NUPE it 's happened all over and it 's gon na it 's happening in this union before it starts . |
| 16 | For those who are n't totally sort of in control of the plot and I probably should include myself as one of them , what 's happening in this scene I want you to act out . |
| 17 | What 's happening in this scene ? |
| 18 | I 've I 've got your range of one to six here , John , and I 'm not I must stress I 'm not singling you out — I mean your company is fairly typical of what 's happening in this area — but the main difference between one and six is that erm two and six is that number two covers for two hundred part up to two hundred pounds |
| 19 | Now , what 's happening in organic chemistry at the moment ? |
| 20 | So she 's walking past this church and she says if anyone can help me , God can help me . |
| 21 | You may well be better off without him instead of living in limbo , not knowing what he 's thinking or why he 's acting in this way . |
| 22 | So if there 's any teacher who 's listening to this programme who would like details of it , by writing in to you , Dudley Ward , at the university ? |
| 23 | She 's looking through this rack of suits so I go and give her a hand . |
| 24 | Oh , he 's looking at that lock there . |
| 25 | I mean and everybody 's looking for that dream amount are n't they . |
| 26 | ‘ I expect she 's looking for another husband , ’ she said . |
| 27 | They 've told her she 's had three years more than what she should of had , she 's living on borrowed time , but , erm , she said the ho er |
| 28 | Do n't know , last time I asked Diane she said oh he 's , he 's living with this machine he 's got in |
| 29 | Prime Minister 's meeting with former King |
| 30 | But Sartre 's dispensing with all historicist schemas creates the problem of how , between two autonomous and contradictory totalizations , there could be ‘ one dialectical intelligibility of the ongoing process ’ ( II , 13 ) . |