Example sentences of "'s [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What better explanation for Britain 's post-devaluation reduction in interest rates and Norman Lamont 's singing in the bath ? |
| 2 | Mr Davies 's canvassing over the party conference period has found 70 MPs solidly backing Mr Foster — including most of the hard-left Campaign Group . |
| 3 | Who 's copulating in the toilet ? |
| 4 | ‘ He 's resting at the Duke 's house in the forest before going on to Strelsau on Wednesday for his coronation . |
| 5 | The chances of Eubank ending up a punch-drunk boxing casualty are remote , and , likewise , he 's sparing in the abuse of his victims . |
| 6 | And there , i Peter when he 's preaching on the day pentecost , he says this is was has happened , God has done just that , just as Jesus promised . |
| 7 | He 's competing in the speed event ; this time around it 's a demonstration sport , but anyone who 's got the guts to fly down an ice run at 100 mph deserves a medal . |
| 8 | The mere fact that the photon 's colliding with the electron and bouncing off it into the microscope has the effect of changing the electron 's momentum would not of itself be disastrous . |
| 9 | What about the guy that she 's seeing at the moment ? |
| 10 | Tracey is also being shown in advance how she can help herself when she 's recovering from the operation . |
| 11 | If it 's raining in the afternoon there will be a table tennis tournament . |
| 12 | A gent 's bidding in the centre at twelve pound . |
| 13 | Sotheby 's began to look for an escape route : they could not risk the picture 's returning to the market and failing to hold its theoretical value . |
| 14 | Oh that copper , he said he , he said the thing is he said what you 've got ta do is give him as much shit and aggravation as you can possibly give him , keep him hot and keep him roasted up he said because what happens is he 's getting along , long and he 's thinking oh I can do this and I can do that and I can do the other , he said but if you can get your solicitor to keep him on his toes he ai n't got time to think about nothing , he said and if he has done that job himself , he 's laughing at the moment , I said well he must have done it |
| 15 | Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er |
| 16 | Plans for their future brought them into political contact with enemies of the ninth electorate which led first to the secret murder of Königsmarck in 1694 , with the connivance of Ernst August , and later to Sophia Dorothea 's confinement in her father 's keeping at the palace of Ahlden , following her divorce from Georg Ludwig in 1694 , which carried the rider that she could not remarry . |
| 17 | Trying to repair the damage done to McKendrick 's positive face , he asks to be excused for his own inadequacies : Anderson 's upholding of the modesty maxim is augmented by the emphasis he puts on the sincerity of his apology ( the tonic syllable in the first sentence falling on " am " ) , stressing that he is fulfilling the felicity conditions ( Searle : 1969 ) for that speech act . |
| 18 | ABOVE The Royal Party at the instant of Devon Loch 's leaping into the air . |
| 19 | About what 's happening to the rest of because she was very maternal she was m she was our mam . |
| 20 | More worryingly , thirty percent of the jobs in this city are linked to the defence industry and we all know , and I do n't need to remind you what 's happening to the defence industry , here it 's going down very very fast , we are losing jobs out the dockyard , but we 're also losing the jobs that are associated with the M O D with the Royal Navy er and it 's extremely worrying for the trade union movement in the city . |
| 21 | What 's happening to the speed now ? |
| 22 | The only answer was to run — in the hope that I can escape being apprehended while I find out what 's happening to the project I was working on . |
| 23 | People are becoming responsible for their own happiness and health , and for what 's happening to the planet . ’ |
| 24 | What 's happening to the population in this country ? |
| 25 | Erm there 's another Econ Soc the Economic Society putting on a lecture at five o'clock on Wednesday er in A forty two and the topic there is What 's Happening to the Distribution of Income in Britain and he is also talking to the Public Sector . |
| 26 | When he 's out on the street he 's totally aware of what 's happening to the market , of what the competition is doing , of what customers want . |
| 27 | What 's happening to the world ? |
| 28 | And that 's what 's happening with the council you see . |
| 29 | He said yesterday : ‘ I wo n't decide anything until I get Newcastle 's offer and also see what 's happening with the boss . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Let me outline what 's happening with the firm at present and you can begin to gather your thoughts . ’ |