Example sentences of "'s [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm coming up a hill near some kind of huge church or cathedral — there must 've been a service or a concert going on because people are pouring out — one of them 's singing a high trill and her boyfriend 's cross : ‘ Please , Miranda !
2 Pensioner 's received a 5.9 per cent increase in the state pension last April .
3 He 's formed a useful partnership with Gordon Hunter and may retain his place in spite of the fact that Tommy McIntyre and Neil Orr are again available .
4 To keep him out of the trees he 's using a simple invention devised by Barnes Wallis for the Dambusters raid .
5 To keep him out of the trees he 's using a simple invention devised by Barnes Wallis for the Dambusters raid .
6 I do n't remember it being that much last year , but she 's using a different board this year so maybe that 's something to do with it .
7 He 's using a veterinary ultrasound scanner adapted from machines used in maternity hospitals .
8 I mean , th th they 're just moving away from the issue , because it it 's using a psychoanalytic stories .
9 ‘ So she 's to see a head man , is she ?
10 He 's joined a growing band of young homeless in Oxfordshire .
11 He says that he 's joined a few agencies , with no luck .
12 For businesses affected by the strike , it 's proving a long wait .
13 ‘ He 's a very busy man , but he has not missed a session , and he 's proving a great asset .
14 Now , for the final time we 're heading way out west with the man who 's given a whole new meaning to the term ‘ cowboy ’ — John Millar of the Daily Record .
15 People think , well now , here 's a man who 's been accused of fraud and so forth and shortly after that it comes out that he 's given a big thing to the government .
16 On top , he 's given a 3 500 housing allowance , and can look forward to a pension of up to 19 500 pounds a year .
17 With his friend , Michael Whitehall , he 's producing a new drama series for ITV called , The Good Guys , starring himself and Keith Barron .
18 Why , even Corky 's completed a few of 'em !
19 And Oxford fans will be taking heart that the side 's enjoying a good run at the moment and may yet avoid relegation .
20 But the best chances were at the other end , and John Durnin who 's enjoying a new lease of life on the south coast should have set the ball rolling before half-time .
21 She 's developed a steady business and a strong social life at her church .
22 He 's committed a libellous slander , based on heresay , making the most obscene remarks about Katherine and the marriage not being consummated .
23 But since then he 's won a Second Division promotion medal and is near the top of the Premier League .
24 " You probably think my life 's some kind of tragedy , but I 'll tell you — one of the hardest parts of it 's keeping a straight face .
25 Her father , a net maker , earned a " scanty subsistence " which was " not much enlarged by my mother 's keeping a little day-school for the girls in her neighbourhood " .
26 Say six ohms on each of these in parallel and two ohms there and that 's say a twelve volt battery erm could you work out the current in that resistor ?
27 She 's launching a unique register that will hold information on every horse in three counties .
28 Is that , that the first one that 's opening a creamy coloured one ?
29 Now she 's opening a new science block as part of a two million pound development at Barnwood Park School in Gloucester .
30 He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out !
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