Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If that gelding of yours is any good , I 'll put my hand in my pocket for him for Dolly . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Though they inhabit the same city as the great mass of the Cairene poor , theirs is another world entirely . |
| 4 | But to Gloria she said , ‘ She 's all skin and bone . |
| 5 | When he 's around she 's all sweetness and light . ’ |
| 6 | She 's all mouth . |
| 7 | Yeah she 's that type of little girl , ai n't she ? |
| 8 | She 's not that way she 's that way ! |
| 9 | And then she 'll sleep she wo n't sleep actually in the airing cupboard , she 'll sleep so the door 's wide open and she 's half way across the la , and she sleeps you know |
| 10 | there er , she 's half brain it 'll be lonely |
| 11 | offices as well , but erm , and I know she 's half time and some offices have only got a quarter , but as I say , she 's the busiest person I know and , and she 's |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe she 's some kind of nut . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You think she 's some kind of idiot ? ’ |
| 14 | Just because she 's read some trashy paperback she thinks she 's some kind of expert on the modus operandi . |
| 15 | She says she 's some sort of detective . |
| 16 | ‘ I sometimes wonder if she 's any senses to come to . ’ |
| 17 | Oh by the way , I do n't think she 'll ever go out with you if she 's any taste at all . |
| 18 | And scarcely half believe she 's any good in the kitchen . |
| 19 | I 've spoken to right er and owes me a few favours and I 've said er would you consider her completing her training until the end of May middle of May which she does at the and then if she 's any good , take her on , providing she gets a driving licence . |
| 20 | She 's same sort of weight as you ? |
| 21 | No , she 's same age a Treena , twenty . |
| 22 | I was talking with a erm a well she 's not a colleague actually she 's another piano teacher , only about two days ago while walking dogs , she 's walking hers , I 'm walking mine , and , Oh I see from your recent advert in the local paper you 're accepting piano pupils . |
| 23 | She is all style , all form , all impeccably dressed dandy and wit , with never a tear out of place . |
| 24 | She is all things to all people because everyday folk easily identify with her . |
| 25 | But she is all wickedness ! |
| 26 | Eliot does so much , she is all game for it herself . |
| 27 | But to avoid loading a title with a chain of such covenants , it is perhaps better draftsmanship , when first imposing restrictions , to provide that the owner for the time being shall be responsible only for breaches committed whilst he or she is such owner . |
| 28 | She is another child , an ordinary human being over whose appearance Wordsworth has thrown a ‘ supernatural charm ’ ( see previous poem for the purpose of the Lyrical Ballads ) . |
| 29 | I ca n't begin to tell you how beautiful she is these days . |
| 30 | Mr Blair-Gould said : ‘ The prosecution clearly suggest … that she is some kind of dreadful rebel on a crusade against censorship . ’ |