Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This is unlikely to get the ‘ poor-thing-he 's deaf reaction and more likely to get the ‘ well-how-clever ’ reaction .
2 As yours is low mileage , the cam followers will be OK to use again .
3 This twin of yours is pure fiction , but I do think you know who Garry 's new love is .
4 Yours is one case I will always remember not for the large number of witnesses , but for the meeting of a man who right from the first impressed his lawyers with his innocence a conviction that grew and grew the more that one went into the case and met the many people who knew Andy Beattie so well . ’
5 ‘ If that gelding of yours is any good , I 'll put my hand in my pocket for him for Dolly .
6 It 's that crowd 'e 's runnin' aroun ’ wiv .
7 The superficial Limeños who think beyond Lima is Miami and Europe , who talk of the ‘ Indian stain departments ’ and do n't know a campesino is starving — theirs is another unreality .
8 Though they inhabit the same city as the great mass of the Cairene poor , theirs is another world entirely .
9 If a middle-aged housewife is incapable of managing her home-life because of perpetual problems with her " nerves " for which she is-on medicinal treatment from her doctor , she may well be chemically dependant on alcohol or prescription drugs or both .
10 She 's nice lady int she ?
11 Oh she 's not forty , she 's only a young lass , she 's pregnant mind
12 She 's hot mate .
13 She 's five foot ten , opera singer , she 's got four degrees , and she 's coming to Manhattan on Thursday kind of thing , to meet you .
14 ‘ They did n't come over at Christmas because she 's i' bed wi' bronchitis .
15 That 's why she 's bloody fat and bloody flabby in n it ?
16 And so Pam just said to her yeah she said he is married to my ex she is married to my ex husband but she said she 's bloody welcome to him .
17 She 's one person yow ca n't push around like the rest of yer cronies . ’
18 She 's one person .
19 But to Gloria she said , ‘ She 's all skin and bone .
20 When he 's around she 's all sweetness and light . ’
21 She 's all mouth .
22 And she 's seventy year old er and
23 Yeah Sue told me the other day that er she wo n't come out till she 's , she 's right cold .
24 And she 's changing address
25 By the time I realise this , she 's doffed hat and denims , and is swimming out to us .
26 if she 's not doing that she 's winding wool ready , she does
27 She 's pure gold .
28 She 's good class , so she did n't belong where she was found .
29 ‘ I suppose it could be the fact that I backed Double Dutch at 10-1 as a saver simply because I think she 's good value and certainly not because there 's anything wrong with my horse , ’ Ramsden said .
30 You 'll like her , darling , she 's great fun , marvellous horsewoman .
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