Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] 's [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's worth up to £4,000 , but would-be murderer Sheila Stroud was allowed out of Holloway Prison , where she 's serving 18 years , and driven to Cheltenham to dispute Mr Stokle 's claim . |
| 2 | I expect the Establishment Division refused to supply her with a tape-recorder ( and for good reason , one might think ) , so she 's brought one of her children 's instead . |
| 3 | British Coal has confirmed that it 's to shed thirty thousand jobs as it closes more than thirty pits due to a fall in demand . |
| 4 | He says that it 's taken twenty years to build up the business , but they 'll just have to start all over again . |
| 5 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 6 | Er so er let's say that the ten percent rate applies , er mind you ten percent is a long way from where we are now , but it makes the figures easy to look at , so er let's say that he 's getting ten percent gross on his return on a building society , he 'd actually get seven and a half percent net , er so on his ten thousand he 's going to earn seven fifty . |
| 7 | As Bryan points out , this has a lot to do with the fact that he 's doing two jobs … |
| 8 | And my my aunt that I my grandmother that I stayed with , their neighbour down the stair was quite indignant and saying , I 'm away to work and she 's getting twelve shillings the same . |
| 9 | But his lifestyle has lead to court appearances on drug and driving offences and he 's served two jail sentences . |
| 10 | And he 's pledged five per cent of tonight 's take to the Children 's Aid Fund , which means — ’ |
| 11 | Mark 's having five , and he 's having five . |
| 12 | and he 's planning all this damn , it 's costing millions of pounds and it 's costing thousands of pounds while he 's sat in that dammed office having it all drawn up and |
| 13 | I 'll tell you this ; every term when I watch that school train go out I feel as if it 's taking two-thirds of me with it . ’ |
| 14 | He 's on the dole , lucky if he 's gets thirty pound a week . |
| 15 | Personally , I 'd like to see Deane ( or whoever ) rested half way through the 2nd half if he 's having one of his off days , and Strandli , Whelan or Forrester given a 20-odd minute run out . |
| 16 | Just cos he 's reaching thirty . |
| 17 | Unless she 's took three quarters of turkey back . |
| 18 | ‘ Everybody marvelled at Clive 's goal in the replay against Chester but he 's scored 11 goals this season and 10 of them have been screamers like that . ’ |
| 19 | But he 's forgotten one thing . |
| 20 | The house is very charming but it 's taken 20 years to get to the present condition . |
| 21 | There 's a half-moon but it 's obscured ninety per cent of the time by a lot of low , fast-moving cloud producing occasional freezing gusts of rain . |
| 22 | and it takes about eighty records at a time because it 's using forty five letters with the |
| 23 | ‘ I see , ’ the Doctor went on with a harder edge in his voice , ‘ that you are the sort of hypocritical egomaniac who talks about betrayal when he 's condemning thousands of his own people in Haiti and millions in Africa and elsewhere to living the lives of mere insects ! ’ |
| 24 | I want a divorce , that 's what I want , but he 'll not budge as long as he 's drawing two salaries and has me cooking for him — but I 'll not eat with him , I stick myself in that tiny kitchen in there — can you imagine the life I lead ? |
| 25 | Newman , who still races even though he 's turned 60 , believes Mansell can carry on now for at least another six or seven years . |