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 . |