Example sentences of "that 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is there something about my work that 's been bothering you , Headmaster ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ While you 've been sitting on your intellectual arses alternately pitying yourselves and the so-called workers , it 's my hard work , my money that 's been keeping this country — ’ Stalking off indoors ; the door shuts . |
| 3 | ‘ Describe the historic fort , the table with a colonial 's dried blood on it that 's never been cleaned . |
| 4 | ‘ The British people will say to themselves : ‘ Well here 's a government that 's got a majority of 100 , they 've been in office for 10 years , they 've had all these opportunities , and at the end of 10 years all they can think of to do is to make individual attacks on the Leader of the Opposition . ’ |
| 5 | The unlucky loser was Reid but then that 's been the story of his season . |
| 6 | The idea , one that 's been adopted many times since , was to ‘ camouflage ’ the door handle so it did n't interfere with the body lines . |
| 7 | It 's busted , so there 's a whole long sheet of towel on the floor , like a bog roll that 's been dropped . |
| 8 | Then suddenly there 's this loud bang from somewhere and they all fly off , like a mirror that 's been smashed — pieces flying everywhere . |
| 9 | But there 's also a moral evolution that 's been going on . |
| 10 | ‘ Nothing in the King 's regulations against using commonsense , ’ remarks the Cockney in the group that 's been persuaded to dump their official load and carry the machines through war-battered France . |
| 11 | Although it is rare to see a carpet that 's been worn right down to its backing they can often look worn . |
| 12 | Fantastic records both , but like There 's a Riot Goin' On , they do n't fit the erroneous model of ‘ political soul ’ that 's been constructed by white ‘ soulcialists ’ . |
| 13 | Or rather , more accurately , he 's estranged , wilfully , from the confining notion of ‘ full ’ humanity that 's been installed by the positive Aid popular culture — extroversion , civic engagement , the benign totalitarianism of caring/sharing/ opening up , the cult of health and efficiency . |
| 14 | ‘ The boy that 's come to live at Beech Place . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's Dad that 's made me ill , ’ she said . |
| 16 | ( That 's how you discover the odd rude word that 's been written on the script by some joker , before the VIP inadvertently reads it out . ) |
| 17 | Regional Railways : ‘ Best thing that 's happened to the valley in years ’ Lynne Edmunds hears how the Welsh have bucked the trend by stoking up regeneration of their train services |
| 18 | People come up to them daily and thank them for helping with ‘ the best thing that 's happened to the valley in decades . ’ |
| 19 | There 's a stand-pipe that 's been erected two streets over that way , ’ she said , pointing . |
| 20 | ‘ What have you done in school this week that 's been interesting ? ’ is a question that we should put to other members of staff , and ourselves at every staff meeting . |
| 21 | There 's a pal of mine who works at the wood yard and he brings me a bag of bits of wood that 's been left over . |
| 22 | ‘ Please , señor , it 's my two hundred dollars that 's been stolen but I do n't want this . |
| 23 | It 's just a try-on that 's worked before , delivered like a statement , not with the desperation and dependency of the displaced , urban campesino child whose need has become so much greater . |
| 24 | The family has occupied less and less of this house since the World Wars , every generation a little less — Christabel 's room was in the east wing that 's been closed since 1918 , except for use as some kind of a glory-hole . |
| 25 | On several occasions I witnessed his lordship make attempts to draw M. Dupont aside for some private conversation , only for Mr Lewis smilingly to impose himself upon them with some remark like : ‘ Pardon me , gentlemen , but there 's something that 's been greatly puzzling me , ’ so that his lordship soon found himself having to listen to some more of Mr Lewis 's jovial anecdotes . |
| 26 | It 's exhaustion that 's made him ill . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Well , it 's bigger than anything that 's been taken today , or yesterday , at one go . ’ |
| 28 | He 's drunk enough to float the Mauretania , and left me to drive him home that 's had so little over me lips you would think it was Lent . ’ |
| 29 | He 's been worried by the deer-raiding that 's been going on . |
| 30 | ‘ Are you the man that 's just arrived ? ’ |