Example sentences of "'s [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Half an hour later she 's unloading the car outside the studio — that 's her job too .
2 He 's finalising the documentation for a private bid , and is putting up the cash himself …
3 He 's bringing the lorry down from Leeds . ’
4 And so anyway , he 's bringing the money round sometime next week .
5 Well he he takes the car to school , but , and it , sorry takes the car to work and before he 's bringing the car home and then he 's been going to school on his bike .
6 And I think it 's both important for N C V O itself , to ensure that it 's working on issues , equal opportunities issues that affect itself , and that it 's helping the sector as a whole to do that , and and we 're very conscious of that , and er , certainly just in the last few weeks , have been looking at how we can upgrade what we 're doing in that sphere .
7 ‘ He 's accusing the boy . ’
8 So Carol 's using the gel and she 's making it into a lather .
9 Carole 's using the avocado moisturizer which is very creamy it contains avocado oil , which is very good for the skin and it 's a natural product .
10 The rate at which it uses energy , it 's the rate at which it 's using the energy .
11 ‘ Because my impression is that he 's using the privacy of the consulting room to hide something .
12 Of course , you see , it 's you that 's using the caravan this week so they can come here they can they ?
13 And mummy 's smiling in at him from the outside , look she 's hanging the washing out pretending not to notice what 's going on .
14 No I ca n't clean the floors Saturday , up and I think she 's scrubbing the floor with the brush done all the muscle .
15 Cos it selects anything that it touches right and cos it 's inside the board outline it thinks it 's touching the board outline
16 Compare it with Joe Simpson 's Touching the Void and the weakness becomes apparent — the one an understated masterpiece , the other a marvellous , complex and overweening mess , defeating itself from within .
17 Right , because the body is acting in order to protect its vital organs and it 's drawing the blood vessels near the skin , shut down , you 're not needed there , you 're needed here , in the core of the body , because your blood is what warms your skin up , it 's taken away from the skin , then the skin feels cold and clammy , yeah , clammy because of course if there 's no heat , we sweat all the time and especially if somebody 's had an accident or is seriously ill they will be sweating , yes , then there 's nothing to dry the sweat off okay , what happens when we sweat excessively in the summer time ?
18 And it 's drawing the wagon you 've got control right the way through .
19 as well , had a little do with a little boy called Shane , he decided he wanted to come into the story with a , in his blue car , I explained that on the day of the choose he could either come in and have a story or he was to play with the blue car outside , well he had a fit , he 's rattling the door , anyway , I did n't realize there was this childminder that he had with him not er his mum , cos she came and had her sort of say and things
20 Rufus holds himself within head-butting distance , and I guess he 's daring the man to spit in his face or something .
21 But it 's resetting the date .
22 No-one 's suggesting the magazine returns to its dilute if all-encompassing format of several years ago ; what we will be doing however , at certain times of the year , is responding to our reader 's main requests and interests .
23 It 's maintaining the diet for longer and keeping the weight off which is the tricky part .
24 You know he 's editing The Silicon Leisure Review now ?
25 It 's wasting the battery .
26 you 'd be expected to , to do a lot of work by yourself , and that 's reflecting the fact that erm you 'll probably have four or five lessons in each of your three subjects , but most people would choose three subjects for A level , and that means that er , when you 're not having lessons , you 've got a lot of time that is not accountable for , you will have been , or going to a general studies period and stuff like that , but there will be a fair number of private study periods , erm , there are some people I think who , who go overboard , and you 've got such a different approach erm from er the lower sixth , people do n't use the time that they have , erm , what I 'm really saying is that if you go into the sixth form and you spend less school time in the sixth form you do n't need to be prepared
27 I mean can you really justify supporting somebody with public money who 's producing the sort of work which if I , as a totally unknown person , produced it would be thrown onto a bonfire ?
28 One pigeon 's eating the potato I threw out yesterday .
29 Outside , down to earth drummer Jon Brookes looks like he 's enjoying the holiday , whilst guitarist John Baker keeps quiet and keyboarder Rob threatens to headbutt LA 's rock royalty , insulting the city 's fat assets with a drunken Midland blur — he 's the band 's closest wildman .
30 Outside , down to earth drummer Jon Brookes looks like he 's enjoying the holiday , whilst guitarist John Baker keeps quiet and keyboarder Rob threatens to headbutt LA 's rock royalty , insulting the city 's fat assets with a drunken Midland blur — he 's the band 's closest wildman .
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