Example sentences of "that [pers pn] 's [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Nancy might be only seventeen , but she 's already a full-growed woman to look at , and I know she 'd be pleased to be 'is wife , 'e 'd only 'ave to ask 'er , except 'e did say once that 'e 's waitin' a while before 'e gets married . |
| 2 | When Mother Pig tells Tottie that she 's having a new baby , and that it might arrive on Tottie 's birthday , Tottie is n't very happy . |
| 3 | so , he said that she 's feeling a bit down in the dumps and quite moody . |
| 4 | ‘ She 's very busy , now that she 's running a nursery playgroup . ’ |
| 5 | The working party on the theology of marriage is finding its task stimulating but arduous and it will surprise no one that it 's taking a long time . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Intel vociferously denied to Unigram last week suggestions circulated on the InterNet by GE 's research and development Center in New York that it 's hit a brick wall with its P5 design , is not getting the yields and is on a crash redesign course that would delay the parts until the end of next year . |
| 7 | know that it 's called a . |
| 8 | As I close the diary I notice that it 's getting a bit grubby . |
| 9 | That 's what hanging on to there cos like it 's just like erm the Party 's worried that it 's getting a bit left behind and needs |
| 10 | She says that it 's made a great difference , the swan can now struggle to it 's feet . |
| 11 | Digital Equipment Corp also has a copy of the paper , and some of the COSE people think DEC is now only a photo opportunity away from announcing that it 's becoming a COSE too . |
| 12 | Some people find that it 's asking a lot of them to actually use their friendship as a part of their work . |
| 13 | ‘ Well all I 'm tellin' you , Pat , is that he 's made a lot of enemies . |
| 14 | And it 's obvious that he 's made a start with the clunch pit murder ; but that is n't noted either . |
| 15 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've had a message from one of the members of the consortium that he 's providing a multi-lingual stenographer . |
| 17 | But he denies that he 's deserting a sinking ship . |
| 18 | The King of Blefuscu has always wanted to defeat Lilliput in war , and now we hear that he 's prepared a large number of ships , which will attack us very soon . |
| 19 | He 's declaring that he 's using a taxi and it costs him a hundred and sixty pound a month , every day back and forwards to work , well everyone knows that 's a lie cos she takes him to work |
| 20 | People think , well now , here 's a man who 's been accused of fraud and so forth and shortly after that it comes out that he 's given a big thing to the government . |
| 21 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 22 | Is there any chance that he 's done a moonlight in order to get away from money problems ? ’ |
| 23 | Anyway , the upshot of it is that he 's written a song , for his daughter , based on the Basil Brush thing . |
| 24 | He says that he 's joined a few agencies , with no luck . |
| 25 | Just that he 's seemed a bit out of sorts this past few days . ’ |
| 26 | Erm I was n't , I did n't know what you were trying to get at when you were bringing up the miles per annum that he was doing , I can understand the flying side of it but driving in the car , yes you need to know that he 's doing a lot of miles and that there 's , you know , the there 's the potential danger and everything there but I did n't understand why you need his specific miles per annum . |
| 27 | Manager Elliott Roberts has arrived with news that he 's found a new room with a jacuzzi bath . |