Example sentences of "'s [v-ing] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the sad thing is , he 's got he 's got quite a bit of brain , ai n't he , to come out , you know , little things like , although they 're rude , he 's obviously aware , but he 's wasting it all , ai n't he ? |
| 2 | ‘ It 's the way he 's financing it that 's dodgy , ’ Sorrel went on . |
| 3 | And he 's eating it alright . |
| 4 | I think Diane 's organizing it all |
| 5 | Because all it means is that anybody 's signing it urgent |
| 6 | and he 's sending it first post , it should be through today , if not tomorrow morning , erm |
| 7 | The theory seems to be ( 1 ) that some act — noticing a resemblance — must precede uttering the word ‘ white ’ for the person who utters the word genuinely to be describing the object , and not merely coming out with the words , ‘ It 's white ’ as might a parrot , no matter what it was shown ; and ( 2 ) that the resemblance the theory requires one to have noticed , which is supposed to justify one 's calling it white as opposed , say , to blue , is what one is referring to when one calls the object ‘ white ’ . |
| 8 | I mean , who 's getting it wrong ? |
| 9 | he 's getting it wrong , you obviously think the media 's getting it wrong in reporting it ! |
| 10 | he 's getting it wrong , you obviously think the media 's getting it wrong in reporting it ! |
| 11 | But erm I , I think a midwife , a good midwife , is every bit as good as a doctor because she 's doing it all the time . |
| 12 | and he 's doing it all day , seeing |
| 13 | he ca n't say he 's doing it wrong . |
| 14 | yeah it might be , I do n't know , I think usually Roy does that but I think Dave 's doing it this year or something erm er that tends to be , that tended to be something that I had difficulty with as a student because again you could n't just sort of find one book that , that covered the lecture course |
| 15 | Who 's doing it this time ? |
| 16 | He 's recording it all the time . |
| 17 | She 's taping it all , she holds it against you , you see , so she 's trying to blackmail ! |
| 18 | She 's taping it all . |
| 19 | And , on yer bike : The charity rider who 's taking it all lying down . |
| 20 | And , on yer bike : The charity rider who 's taking it all lying down . |
| 21 | Ah , he 's taking it all up . |
| 22 | So Lucy said , ‘ She 's taking it easy . ’ |
| 23 | She 's sitting there , she 's putting it all in and she goes , she goes and she goes and she goes , yeah |
| 24 | Yeah I , I do n't think he 's making it that , that much worse than it is , I think it is still quite bad at this point in time but it 's you know , since revolution yes the landlords still hold |
| 25 | ‘ She 's making it all up , ’ said Joe , ‘ but she ca n't help it , she 's had no family life and it 's held her brain back a bit . |
| 26 | That 's also the area which is growing fastest and it 's also the area where increasingly it 's DHSS funding that 's making it all happen . |
| 27 | Paulie 's making it all up . |
| 28 | Yeah but it 's still making me confused I 'm thinking about too much at once it 's making it worse . |
| 29 | Their captain 's making it difficult for them on the blower |
| 30 | It 's making it difficult to save money |