Example sentences of "'s [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well Les was saying the only thing you 've got ta be careful of like when you pay money into a bank when you 're in business and you pay money into the bank and the bank then pay your standing orders er and everything 's done through a bank , then the tax office sort of tend to think well fair enough you know , he 's legit . |
| 32 | But er when just before I left the polishing which was in nineteen thirty eight , er they were bringing in a lot of cellu it 's all th a lot of all this modern stuff is what they call cellulose , but I could n't tell you how it 's done , it 's done with a spray . |
| 33 | give it another growing and I just thought stupid plant , and I 've left it and it 's grown into a beautiful , , did n't call it which now is supposed to before the other way round . |
| 34 | It 's grown on a , a north facing wall so bit , bit more now I think if it got more sun . |
| 35 | And if you look back at the minutes and then Yona I think she 's great as the secretary because she does n't let anything go but on the other hand she 's pretty informal about and the way th that over the weeks you know somebody er Julie or June or Mervia Ann come up with the suggestion that they maybe feel why do n't we do this and then by the next week it 's turned into a a rally or a big picket or or a record . |
| 36 | Oh he , he 's turned into a nice boy has Paul . |
| 37 | I mean it 's turned into a bit of a joke now really |
| 38 | Well the the money 's collected by a firm and taken to the bank . |
| 39 | He 's moved into a council house now . |
| 40 | Oh well he 's moved on a day then |
| 41 | So it 's a process , it 's got interests , it 's related to a state and it 's in the international arena , very good , very good , a lot of erm er a lot of very good things there . |
| 42 | Crooked bosses can easily steal their workers ' pension cash MP 's revealed in a shock report . |
| 43 | I have to say , myself , you know I feel one of the worst thing you can call a man in the English language is a term that 's used for a women 's genitalia . |
| 44 | Another thing about smoking , although nobody 's denying it 's bad for you , is the fact is that , it 's overwhelming the core of women who smoke , who also have worst diets , they also tend to have worse stress , it 's used as a very convenient scapegoat . |
| 45 | You know up the side street but now it 's used as a as a store house but you can tell it 's a it 's an old establishme and and they used to get full you know . |
| 46 | Erm , because it seems to , with the changing nature of organisation of authorities , it 's used as a comparative purpose , must be er , very doubtful , and we 've always criticised it , er beginning the position snapshot on a particular the day , it does n't say what 's in the pipeline or what 's going out of the pipeline at the other end . |
| 47 | Ten R A F crewmen were killed yesterday when one of the Shackleton 's crashed into a hillside in the outer Hebrides . |
| 48 | It 's wra it 's wrapped in a bag so . |
| 49 | I said the libraries are closed on Wednesdays and Fridays , why do n't you come to the library with me today because it 's closed on a Wednesday and Friday . |
| 50 | I do n't think Lewis er thought Stone was capable of doing this you know and he 's got into a great situation there . |
| 51 | Whether she is consciously twisting logic , or just , poor girl , confused , I 'm not sure , but at the end it 's quite clear ‘ So dear I love them that with him all deaths I could endure , without him live no life ’ , that she 's got into a world of fantasy because the one thing that is of course not in question is that Adam should die and that she should live on , which appears to be what she 's referring to here . |
| 52 | It 's gone to it 's got to a stage where he made that statement which he very very much means , he will never ever give them another album of his to market worldwide . |
| 53 | I mean he 's a , he 's got to a , he 's got to be a claim all across the whole sitting is that the , that their budgeting is not enough is it ? |
| 54 | She 's got in a lot of . |
| 55 | Oh it sounds as if it 's got like a K on it |
| 56 | You said that in our newsletter , because our checkout manager said that she 's found life extremely difficult with all the changes of shifts , and that in her department they have lots of problems , so she 's got like a pro forma checkout news , and she asks them for things that go into this , that they , you know , that they want bringing up , and specific things that they 're having difficulty with . |
| 57 | But mum said like she 's she 's divorced so sh , she 's forty she 's got like a six year old kid and the kid is really brainy ! |
| 58 | and like a big tie through the , the waist and the top is like white edge with navy and it 's got like a sailor collar at the back |
| 59 | And it 's got like a hood thing . |
| 60 | On that one it sort of leaves a disk , it 's got like a bar underneath |