Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he s won us a 2 championships and a 4th place in 4 years . |
| 2 | You 're lucky in a way that he 's there , and lucky , too , that he 's got his music and that it 's bringing him a name , for it 's some sort of compensation in the meantime , helping his waiting . ’ |
| 3 | P'raps she 's findin' it a bit melancholy bein' wiv 'im ? ’ |
| 4 | This year , the National is bringing us an even more famous Spanish classic , and early booking is recommended . |
| 5 | Starting this week , Central television is bringing you an improved weather service . |
| 6 | When your FlexiLoan is arranged , we will give you a special cheque book so that when the time comes to spend some or all of your borrowing limit , all you have to do is make our a cheque for the right amount . |
| 7 | Allan Chapman & James is a young company which is building itself an excellent reputation in the area as commercial insurance brokers . |
| 8 | Glenn Hoddle wo n't be naming his side , until he 's given himself a fitness test on a calf strain . |
| 9 | She 's given her a cultural background for life . |
| 10 | " Well , her young man 's given her the go-by , " Mrs. Butler said , " and she 's very upset about it . |
| 11 | ‘ God 's given you a child , ’ he said . |
| 12 | that 's given you a bit more |
| 13 | He 's given you a new lease of life , has n't he , with his flattery , his sucking-up . ’ |
| 14 | Right so the thing is if we talk about what you 've read and then The idea is that if there 's anything out of you 've read that 's given you an idea for an essay then you can do that . |
| 15 | I expect Oliver 's given you the impression that I was a virgin when I got married . |
| 16 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 17 | It 's understanding what the need is and understanding what need you can actually supply . |
| 18 | Well that 's reminded me the erm |
| 19 | our next stop is over in Herefordshire at Ross on Wye … we 're meeting up with a young tennis player who 's won himself a place at the world 's top coaching clinic … the story of Tim Bibby is our Friday Feature |
| 20 | Not that Barry 's forgotten what the weather 's like back home … |
| 21 | As the language system is the focus of our study here , we start with the idea of the linguistic variable ( for example the vowel /a/ in such items as cat , bad , have ) , and our first task is to discover what the possible variants of a variable may be : subsequently , the quantitative distribution of linguistic variants may be demonstrated by reference to the familiar speaker-variables of social dialectology , such as age and sex of speaker . |
| 22 | ‘ The least I can do is buy you a drink . ’ |
| 23 | The least he can do is buy us a decent lunch . ’ |
| 24 | The best way to go about proper practice is to find yourself a partner of similar standard , who is equally keen to improve , and spend hours sweating and toiling on the practice court . |
| 25 | Janet Parsons knows what it is to find yourself a victim of crime . |
| 26 | That long-anticipated non-profit X trade association , the X Industry Association , brainchild of The X Business Group , is getting off the ground : it 's picked itself a chairman in David Harris of Adobe Systems Inc and the board includes Peter Winston of Xhibition , Peter Shaw of AGE Logic Inc , Stephen King of Tektronix , Brian Fitzgerald of Digital Equipment Corp and Michael Harrigan of Network Computing Devices Inc and Anil Malhotra of IXI Ltd ; members include Applied Digital Data Systems , Grafpoint , Hummingbird , Kinesix , Non Standard Logics , Omron , Shographics , TeleSoft , Visual Edge and Walker , Richer & Quinn ; the new body is to market , promote and educate in the name of X , leaving the X Consortium , while it still exists , to grapple with the technical issues . |
| 27 | The first and foremost step in planning a food facility is to establish what the facility is going to sell , and what type of function is required from the service facility . |
| 28 | Clough added : ‘ He 's earned himself a contract not because of how well he has done for us , but because I think he can carry on after 32 . ’ |
| 29 | Yes , they 're all trained in first aid , erm erm and in the use er we also carry the analgesic gas , now the ones that er nitric oxide which is used in er pregnant mothers for childbirth , they carry some of that now , er which they administer to people in pain and that takes away the pain erm for the time being anyway , until such time as you can extricate them or , or ease the pain or take away the problem away from them that 's causing them the pain . |
| 30 | In The weather is fine , for example , is would normally constitute the transition ( assuming the communicative purpose of the utterance is to state what the weather is like ) . |