Example sentences of "'s [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's helping in a scheme started by the Rural Development Commission , and backed up by the Workout Charity . |
| 2 | Put down that Gameboy and your copy of Madonna 's Sex , clean up the mess , pour yourself a pale cream sherry and mull over the year that 's drawing to a close . |
| 3 | erm , he 's seeing to a bit of rust for me |
| 4 | Mr and Mrs P saw no prospect of the housing market 's recovering at a rate fast enough to overtake the income shortfall or , still less , the rate at which their overall debt was steadily increasing . |
| 5 | Before 9.15 , phrases that will have been used include : ‘ a lethal dose of my love rod ’ ; ‘ young girls ’ love juices ’ ; ‘ a good fist-fucking ’ ; ‘ all your fudge-packing ’ ; ‘ the mark of a man across your bun ’ ; ‘ most people have carried your hand baggage ’ ; ‘ he 's recovering from a rogering in the toilet ’ and ‘ he 's pouring a hand shandy in the car park ’ . |
| 6 | She was profoundly scarred by her father 's suicide in 1976 , and blames the tragedy on the mental stress caused by the Wilson government 's reneging on a fighter bomber deal he had set up with Sweden . |
| 7 | Both ends appear to be fixed , but it 's vibrating like a violin string . ’ |
| 8 | What 's happening in a blast furnace ? |
| 9 | Ooh , he was funny though , he was coming like that , and he 's dying for a stroke |
| 10 | It 's unsettling for a girl . ’ |
| 11 | Non-executive directors , that is a strength erm it 's also a threat but it is also a strength but basically it 's acting as a sort of yardstick to control or actually guide the actual management right down from board level right down the company there . |
| 12 | The central allegation in what 's certain to be a bitterly contested case , is that B A has a monopoly based on its dominance of Heathrow , which it 's abusing in a bid to force Virgin out of the market for transatlantic travel . |
| 13 | No-one 's listening to a word you 're saying Tim . |
| 14 | and he 's listening to a tape that his mum has sent him . |
| 15 | Once again , it 's flagging below a level which would give him confidence for London , yet his form over shorter distances has been good , highlighted recently by a new course record of 38:20 at the Thorney 12K in Peterborough . |
| 16 | He 's looking through a window , erm any advance on that ? |
| 17 | It did n't exactly lend weight to my decision to realize , when I 'd finished making it , that I was standing outside a second-hand jeweller 's looking at a selection of gold rings . |
| 18 | You 're in the nearside lane and you 're going uphill and er you 're trunking away quite nicely , you see a guy coming down in the fast lane , down the hill getting a bit of a roll on , fully laden , and he gets halfway up the hill , he runs out of steam and he 's looking for a hole to get into . |
| 19 | Sounds like she 's looking for a holiday . |
| 20 | I 'm the one who 's looking for a friend who may well be in the hands of the cochon gris . |
| 21 | My son 's looking for a wife . |
| 22 | , he 's gone down , he 's looking for a penalty and it 's been given , the referee consulted the linesman , he looked at his nearside , it was who went in or was it Chris on David , the penalty award has been given by the referee , he looked to confirm it with the linesman on the nearside and that confirmation was all that he had needed to point to the spot . |
| 23 | Here 's a bargain for somebody who 's looking for a dining room suite . |
| 24 | Erm that in fact one of the odd points here is that when a person is convicted , that information is public , but nevertheless as the years go by and indeed er this has been recognized in for instance the rehabilitation of offenders act , it becomes private information and if someone 's looking for a job the fact that he was convicted of an offence many years ago should not be er er relevant . |
| 25 | Any Palestinian who speaks will have to have the approval of the PLO , but this will not be said publicly because we do n't want to give Shamir the chance to withdraw , which we think he 's looking for an excuse to do . ’ |
| 26 | Any Palestinian who speaks will have to have the approval of the PLO , but this will not be said publicly because we do n't want to give Shamir the chance to withdraw , which we think he 's looking for an excuse to do . ’ |
| 27 | He 's looking for an identity and he has n't found it with you . ’ |
| 28 | She 's riding in big cars and she 's dressing like a tart . |
| 29 | Oh she 's swimming with a dolphin . |
| 30 | There 's absolutely no point in saying to some sixty five year old or or seventy year old who 's living on a state pension in a council house , What you 've got to do is help yourself . |