Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon 'e 's ate new-born babies in 'is time , so I was 'ighly relieved that we parted on friendly terms , as yer might say . ’ |
| 2 | Sue says she 's beaten all the players above her in the world rankings and will have to work harder to make up the difference . |
| 3 | Well today 's healthy lifestyle volunteer believes she 's beaten this weighty problem . |
| 4 | She 's placed another advertisement in this week 's local newspaper , under an assumed name — one of around 20 she 's thought to use . |
| 5 | My father could n't come because he 's publicly declared his opposition to the wedding and my mother would n't dare come without him — but she 's sent good wishes through one of the cousins . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's ruined this company ! |
| 7 | ‘ She 's called Cynthia , ’ said my mother as one who says , ‘ She 's called cat-sick . ’ |
| 8 | Awards are nice for the day , and they glitter — my mother has got all mine and she polishes them within an inch of their lives , she 's polished all the gold glitter away and it 's base metal underneath , and I think that 's a fairly apt analogy of what a prize is . |
| 9 | Broome Manor also has the Women 's champion in 16 year old Vicky Hanks … she 's broken three course records this summer … |
| 10 | You know how superstitious she is , touching wood and not walking under ladders and throwing salt over her shoulder when she 's spilled some . |
| 11 | Mother says I must n't grow any more till she 's collected enough wool to knit me a bigger one . |
| 12 | She expertly presents an early evening news programme on Anglia TV , she 's written one novel and is half-way through the next , she breezes through the kind of daily schedule that would have most of us screaming for mercy by midday . |
| 13 | She 's lost all she intends to lose . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's lost three years of her life , and that 's a lot of losing . |
| 15 | ‘ She 's undergone some pretty awful ordeals , ’ Newman persisted . |
| 16 | She 's undergone vital surgery to remove the cancer and now , in addition , is taking the drug , Tamoxifen , which , according to the new research , can reduce the risk of death by a quarter . |
| 17 | Until she 's done that I know I wo n't get any sense out of her . |
| 18 | And she 's done that . ’ |
| 19 | She says it 's ages since she 's done any exercise , and it 's good for her . |
| 20 | She 's done 6 series and 40,000 questions . |
| 21 | She 's done 6 series and 40,000 questions . |
| 22 | God , she 's done this once too often . |
| 23 | Mind you , she 's done this sort of thing before . |
| 24 | I feel like she 's done this deliberately , though she probably did n't even know where she was . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's not surprising she met an early grave , she 's smoked forty a day ever since I 've known her and that 's thirty years , ’ and , ‘ What do you expect , smoking all her life — God rest her soul , ’ are common judgements made by those left behind . |
| 26 | I love Ma , but she must expect to be unhappy because she 's reached that time of life . |
| 27 | And she 's made such a difference to me . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters has attacked Madonna in the most recent issue of Details magazine : ‘ What 's extraordinary about Madonna is that she 's made all these rotten records , and she 's this awful , ugly , dull person who — by virtue of the fact that she 's completely fearless and shameless and blatant and cheap and bad — has become successful , ’ he says . |
| 29 | ‘ She 's made some really snide comments to some of the staff about you . |
| 30 | ‘ Er — she 's made some mistakes ? ’ |