Example sentences of "[pron] 's [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's not all the Iron Lady she 's cracked up to be . |
| 2 | So I mean she 's over half a stone now is n't she so that 's nice for |
| 3 | And she 'd like come to school and she 's just such a wreck . |
| 4 | Yes , she 's very disheartening the way she picks at it I should think . |
| 5 | She 's too high-spirited a girl for that . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't know she 's there half the time . |
| 7 | Some say she has long fair hair , others that she 's as dusky a beauty as you 'd find among the pieds-noirs ! |
| 8 | One of the most flattering things ever said to me was by a teacher who said , ‘ Kinnock , I 'd like to call you lazy but nobody who 's as big a nuisance as you are is lazy . ’ |
| 9 | And with the young doctor who tries to help Raskolnikov , the voice of the underground man has become more accessibly funny : ‘ I admit there 's scarcely such a thing as a normal human being . |
| 10 | Erm , I was n't aware that Linda , erm , was a good cook , she 's been tell me she 's a good cook , I was n't aware of that , because in one her drawers there 's normally half a tea cake , a scone or whatever you like . |
| 11 | Well there 's already half a tape full of Charlotte 's bodily functions . |
| 12 | O K , if I could actually show you a way where there 's not such a problem today , how would you feel then ? |
| 13 | ‘ In Australia you are not supposed to have a cleaner or someone to do things for you , there 's not such a class distinction . |
| 14 | Mind you , I 'm not saying as that 's what she 'll get for the asking , and I 'm not saying there 's not many a man as 'll hand over his pay-packet unopened , but there 's enough of the other sort to give us a bit of a breather Thursdays . ’ |
| 15 | So it 's not his his fault but a lot of the training that we have to deliver is to do with procedures that he had n't dealt with whereas a lot of the procedures are things that I 'm familiar with there 's only some the job centre stuff |
| 16 | There 's only half the class so you ca n't really throw many eggs and rotten tomatoes and things can you ? |
| 17 | There 's only half an hour intermission while the news is on and the votes are collated , and the contestants ' fear ferments into an almost hysterical euphoria . |
| 18 | I feel now , erm just from talking to people , that there 's very much a feeling of er a torpor , erm a kind of hiatus of waiting for something to happen , waiting to be moved out , looking forward to that . |
| 19 | Meanhwile Henry Skelton 's mother believes there 's very little the university authorities can do to deal with drug-taking |
| 20 | ‘ There 's obviously all the pressure and all the talk about who is going to win the championship . |
| 21 | I think there 's about half a pint left . |
| 22 | Scotland could n't manage more than a tweak of the giants ' noses , but showed that there 's still such a thing as going down with honour . |
| 23 | According to my watch there 's still half an hour of the so-called working day left and I think that 's long enough to locate the appropriate file , do n't you ? ’ |
| 24 | Cos it 's probably double the size of this one . |
| 25 | It 's downhill all the way . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Of course , it 's not all a bed of roses , ’ she could hear someone say . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's not such a fib , ’ he countered . |
| 28 | Mind you , it 's not such a surprise coming from one who is self-confessedly arrogant and opinionated and whose only accolade is that he edits a magazine . |
| 29 | The descent from the second Munro was knee-wrenching , and although it 's a relief to regain the track in the glen , it 's not such a relief to remember how far away the starting point is . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's not such a lot to ask ! |