Example sentences of "[pron] 's [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to admit , she 's better than a kick in the wot-nots ! |
| 2 | And as often as you tell yourself she 's not your type , that you do n't like blondes , your taste tends towards the browns , even redheads but not blondes , no ; and what 's more , her face is round , but you do n't like round faces ; and you 've always gone in for a bit of shape and she 's flat as a pancake . |
| 3 | And as she 's five and a bit weeks old , it 's five weeks |
| 4 | A nurse who was burgled while she slept says she 's disgusted that the man convicted of using her stolen chequebook has walked free from court . |
| 5 | A nurse who was burgled while she slept says she 's disgusted that the man convicted of using her stolen chequebook has walked free from court . |
| 6 | A nurse who was burgled while she slept says she 's disgusted that the man convicted of using her stolen chequebook has walked free from court . |
| 7 | Four : she 's straight and a mummy . |
| 8 | She said that she 's shocked that an organisation can behave this way . |
| 9 | One parent says she 's angry that the school did n't tell her the whole truth about why the head left . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's tougher than the rest of us put together . |
| 11 | ‘ But she makes nice chocolate cake and she 's handy when the cook 's on holiday , ’ she admitted as she examined her face in the shine . |
| 12 | For the past few months my husband , who 's 43 and a smoker , has been getting a sharp pain in the pit of his stomach , which he 's been ‘ curing ’ with a glass of milk . |
| 13 | One 's one and a half . |
| 14 | That one 's two and a half . |
| 15 | two , there 's two and a half |
| 16 | Gillis accepts , against the advice of his chair-bound agent ( Miranda Richardson ) , but soon discovers that there 's more than a movie at stake . |
| 17 | I , I erm , I was off the west co er on a holiday to the west coast of Ireland and we erm we 're driving down the west coast and there was like some rocks and everything about , so we stopped and , you know , I looked by a rock pools or something , and there 's this and the rock pool is like mini-swimming baths , they were , you know , probably |
| 18 | It 's curious that the Bloch Symphony for trombone and orchestra is rarely played — one would have thought that trombonists , starved of repertoire , would air it at every opportunity . |
| 19 | It 's fantastic that the boy is back . ’ |
| 20 | Yeah you see it 's bigger cos the bedroom |
| 21 | It 's freezing and the pitch is rock hard . |
| 22 | But it 's due and the farm accounts wo n't take it . |
| 23 | I 'll go and make the sauce , then I 'll have a bath while it 's simmering if the generator 's up to it . ’ |
| 24 | And the early reading of P P G seven it seems to me it 's apparent that the principle messages are that the development in open countryside should be strictly controlled , and I would underline that point strictly controlled , and that the countryside should be safeguarded for its own sake and non-renewable and natural resources should be afforded protection . |
| 25 | it was all to do with recognising it was the middle of the winter , sun was at it 's lowest and the sun would be coming back again , and maybe that 's some sort of gut feeling |
| 26 | The commission says it 's adamant that the public will have the final say . |
| 27 | Well it 's better than a kick in the teeth is n't it ? |
| 28 | Incidentally , it 's better than a railway hut , and perfect for a party . ’ |
| 29 | It 's better than a letter to hear her voice . ’ |
| 30 | A grand view of Horse Guards Parade — oh well it 's better than a view of John and Norma Major . |