Example sentences of "'s [v-ing] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's bringing home the bacon … and then there 's bringing back the ham . |
| 2 | I 'm directing his energy and he 's bringing out the humour in me , at last , which ca n't be a bad thing . ’ |
| 3 | She 's still a little unsure on those tacks , she 's easing out the mainsheet as she goes round . |
| 4 | No , wrong way round Oh it 's brightening up the weather a bit now . |
| 5 | yeah , so Ivan said to me , he said er he said well I do I suppose you have noticed he said but whenever she comes down here he said the whole line stops I said I quite agree I said well let's be honest about it if he 's knocking out the meat he , it 's got ta stop cos he stops |
| 6 | Well there is another man and she has told Paul that frankly she 's lapping up the attention . |
| 7 | Yes , well there is another man and she 's told Paul frankly she 's lapping up the attention , he 's taking her out for meals and their having a good time together you know , why its great , but as soon as he 's paid for , for the goods and got , got the goods , the chaps going to go off looking for another . |
| 8 | yes , it 's tonight , it 's filling in the application form , but we 're asking you to read the scenario so you know a little bit about the people , and then this is all the information that 's been gathered . |
| 9 | So he 's filling in the application form of the dating agency , he said the girl 's got to be five foot ten , living in China , |
| 10 | He 's looking out the window now . |
| 11 | so they 're trying to corner it and it 's munching on grass quite happily , you could see it was watching a minute , but it was watching them away and I think er any minute it 's looking out the corner of its eye and then it 's just gon na go when he sees it getting closer . |
| 12 | Er , you look she falls , er , two or three rush to her , the stall holder fetches a chair , they 're all round her his son 's picking up the bit she slipped on . |
| 13 | Tommy 's picking up the gun from the living room floor . |
| 14 | Five minutes into the second half , the parry was from the boy was looking for his first goal , and it 's picking up the pieces for his second of the afternoon . |
| 15 | I 've never seen people eat chips , cos you know how you get sick of chips sometimes , we 's shovelling down the chips down and coke , proper coke they were drinking . |
| 16 | I 'm just seeing if the water 's going up the drains . |
| 17 | He 's going up the ladder like a rocket , is n't he ? |
| 18 | It 's going up the chimney . |
| 19 | And if someone 's going down the shop |
| 20 | Someone 's got to have hope and want to change something — because the UK 's going down the pan . |
| 21 | No , she just like , cos he 's going down the club . |
| 22 | Squeezing away so that his biceps shifted in his sleeve , he asked ‘ so , Rog , what 's going down the chute ? ’ |
| 23 | He 's going out the port about quarter past eleven . |
| 24 | For example , in messages like : Your coat 's on fire The wing 's breaking up The radio 's gone wrong Your uncle 's died probably the majority of English speakers would place the tonic stress on the subject noun , though it is difficult to see how this is more important than the last lexical word in each of the sentences . |
| 25 | He 's back at the main menu , he 's calling up the directory , the very List of Lists , the brain surgeon 's own encephalogram . |
| 26 | When you have four or five people you have a very set arrangement — like , he 's playing rhythm and you 're playing lead , so-and-so 's playing the backbeat and thingy 's holding down the chord patterns . |
| 27 | He 's propping up the daisies . |
| 28 | Perhaps he 's flying down the chimney . |
| 29 | Er it sounds as though it might well be stuck in your sinuses here and this stuff 's running down the back |
| 30 | Look , it 's finishing off the rest of honeysuckle , can you see ? |