Example sentences of "'s [verb] [adj] thing " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | no one 's heard any thing about it . |
| 2 | I 'm glad all your transport users are , are now coming out of the woodwork , but you are the minority in this hundred , now of the majority the car drivers do you feel any resent of responsibility towards users of public transport , I mean there are all manner of er plans afoot to , to slightly further tax or er charge drivers so that roads can be subsidised , I do n't know that it would subsidise public transport , but there are penalties coming up for private car users and drivers , do you approve ? , do you disapprove , do you think that 's fair enough ? , no one 's said any thing about pollution yet , yes |
| 3 | In the meantime she 's got other things on her mind — and they wo n't involve wearing a skirt either . |
| 4 | He 's got other things on his mind . " |
| 5 | ‘ Virginia 's got other things on her mind , ’ said her father , with a thoughtful glance in his daughter 's direction . |
| 6 | ‘ Mr Harbinger 's got better things to do than help an old cripple around . |
| 7 | He 's got better things to do than play around with columns and figures |
| 8 | My God if she 's got if she 's got that thing on a door , I should the ! |
| 9 | One of those no we ai n't got no earphones on , if you got one there , it 's got little things you can ha , like you 've got . |
| 10 | . So usually use gestures then it 's got some things here , it 's got some little matchstick men on the next page . |
| 11 | ‘ She 's got this thing about me being so bloody cautious about everything . |
| 12 | She 's got this thing about saying ‘ not ’ all the time . ’ |
| 13 | Unfortunately , Bryan 's got this thing about stockings . |
| 14 | ‘ Tony 's got this thing ; you know . |
| 15 | He 's got this thing to do with his computer when he can get hold of it to get the computer |
| 16 | granddad 's got this thing which you open them with |
| 17 | Actually granny 's got this thing about saving money in every possible way so you ring up and say hello and then she 'll sort of , right now tha lovely for calling , thank you so much for calling , now bye you know and you have n't even said anything , you feel really |
| 18 | He 's he 's he 's been reluctant to do anything because he 's had other things to do . |
| 19 | It 's all a load of bull shit basically , it seems , it seems that the para 's were certainly under fire , with nobody knows and erm , it does , the only thing that is blatantly clear , all these lying transferred by the para 's and they were like dragging them away and stuff and the only , there 's only one member that 's had any thing to do with the I R A that they can find out about , that 's one so at least nine were n't firing definitely , erm , three may of done or may not of done so it looks like the only thing that basic the same is looks like at least nine were innocent , you know its all right for |
| 20 | It looks as if she 's had these things put there to support her rather than actually casually sitting on them . |
| 21 | Erm I had to go to Mr Walker 's to get this thing . |
| 22 | ‘ We 'll let you know what 's happened first thing tomorrow , ’ said the fräulein . |
| 23 | Erm as Eddie 's sent this thing here , this minus seventy pound nett , that is the nett difference that is the cost erm of what it cost us to actually hire the nets less the one pound fifty er per person , er per session that was paid , so that is the nett difference because we come there . |