Example sentences of "[adj] 's [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How old 's that child ? |
| 2 | How old 's this guy then ? |
| 3 | Wait how long 's this stint of night duty ? |
| 4 | You 've been reading B one 's all week . |
| 5 | When we approached the 12 year-old 's little aluminium throne with its torn plastic seat and its bent wheels , he looked at us with that special insouciance of the Lebanese militiaman . |
| 6 | ‘ I doubt if that 's much comfort , ’ said Sean . |
| 7 | Not that that 's much comfort . ’ |
| 8 | That 's each way is n't it ? |
| 9 | That 's each time . |
| 10 | But that 's little consolation for staff at Tewkesbury , or the town 's economy . |
| 11 | Others are owed much more , but that 's little consolation . |
| 12 | Only time can tell how news media will have to adapt to the demands which loom ahead , but that 's little comfort to an organisation plagued with financial problems and worries . |
| 13 | I certainly felt lust and jealousy , but if that 's all love was , it was n't enough . |
| 14 | " That 's all nonsense , Caduta . |
| 15 | But that 's all pie in the sky . |
| 16 | The pausing thing , that 's all improvisation . |
| 17 | Well that 's all bullshit . |
| 18 | Well that 's all bullshit . |
| 19 | Now , that 's all Chairman , the report is for information . |
| 20 | I think that erm what I 'd like to do is an A four daily that 's all colour , all digital , so that you get picture syndrome moments before you go to press you can get them to print . |
| 21 | So that 's all progress . |
| 22 | They 're very pleased at that because I mean they obviously found it to be useful , erm we proved it to be useful and it 's nice to see them all taking on this responsibility now , now and doing it , because that 's all progress . |
| 23 | That 's all guitar players do , I think , they just steal licks off each other and then make it their own somehow . |
| 24 | As I say , that 's all dad said . |
| 25 | ‘ And that 's all Mum wants , ’ Joe said fondly . |
| 26 | The reason we built it on this particular spot is this is the ash flurry from the boilers from the bottom there of the er power station and er it 's contents of slurry dried out , dried out and graded , well once nice and flat like this it gives the bird an ideal opportunity to at high tide and they can see around , there 's no vegetation , it 's very bad ground , and er , that is load of ducks , a good numbers of er oystercatchers , they do n't sometimes , which is really nice and so easy to count them now cos when the tide is out and you 've got the , the mud flats of course they 're spread out , now they 're nicely condensed down here , so it 's great , great little position for us you know , that 's all courtesy of the bottom of the boiler , you know , you know , give us this nice |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't mind if the lads have a laugh at my expense , that 's all part of the dressing-room banter , but it does upset me that I 'm supposed to have had a row with the manager . |
| 28 | But that 's all part of the irresistible appeal of EMF . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've all been in trouble with the police and all that malarkey , but that 's all part of growing up . |
| 30 | That 's all part of the Poll Tax . |