Example sentences of "'s [adj] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | and probab er probably Thursday morning as , as well , so I 'll probably have Thursday , Friday maybe Saturday , well , oh I should have , because by working on the games Thursday morning , that 's another three hours , that 's , brings me up to , twenty eight , yes twenty eight er er thirty one and er , I 'll , I 've got class top contacts time in the , in the afternoon , so that does n't count , Friday I 've got class , a two hour class , but er , tt , I 'll be working outside , in fact that class will be cancelled that day , so it 's er , so four hours that 's thirty six er , Saturday forty two , Tuesday erm tt , oh that week I 'll have a six for Wednesday er nine Thursday er twelve for Tuesday another twelve , plus the evening twelve , plus two , plus another six , that 's eight and a half , eighteen , another eighteen hours |
2 | For the past few months my husband , who 's 43 and a smoker , has been getting a sharp pain in the pit of his stomach , which he 's been ‘ curing ’ with a glass of milk . |
3 | It does that when it 's free and a bit damp , you know , rain and all . ’ |
4 | Four : she 's straight and a mummy . |
5 | It 's impossible and a waste of time . ’ |
6 | That women 's seventy and a day and she 's got the body of a young girl ! |
7 | I think it 's nine and a bit now |
8 | And as she 's five and a bit weeks old , it 's five weeks |
9 | One 's one and a half . |
10 | That one 's two and a half . |
11 | He 's two and a half |
12 | two , there 's two and a half |
13 | Independent advice er comes from major brokers , the banks and building societies have come out of independent advice pretty well , because they 've decided that it 's expensive and a hassle , cos we 're regulated all the time and of course it makes , we 've , we 've got to analyze the products on the market , so we 've got to pay people to do that . |
14 | Well all the better for the breastfeeding — Do you know , Inverdarroch her wee Roderick-dhu , he 's four and a half … |
15 | Well , wee Roderick-dhu though , he 's four and a half and she still breastfeeds him . |
16 | Well I suppose that 's not bad , it 's over four , it 's four and a half |