Example sentences of "'s [adj] [coord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Well cos at er , there were n't enough tide to take it away , I mean you ta you get clay well that 's , that 's solid and the amount of stuff I was dredge they use and use it , now we 're not the only ones got it , they got people from Harwich , people from Felixstowe , they were all dumping out there . |
2 | But it 's due and the farm accounts wo n't take it . |
3 | That 's right and the point really is with time , you 're not interested that it 's two twenty four . |
4 | That 's right and the understanding of what was necessary . |
5 | We 've got some of the linseed in but it 's wet and the wheat was poor too . |
6 | I , I erm , I was off the west co er on a holiday to the west coast of Ireland and we erm we 're driving down the west coast and there was like some rocks and everything about , so we stopped and , you know , I looked by a rock pools or something , and there 's this and the rock pool is like mini-swimming baths , they were , you know , probably |
7 | it was all to do with recognising it was the middle of the winter , sun was at it 's lowest and the sun would be coming back again , and maybe that 's some sort of gut feeling |
8 | But when it 's dark and the moon glints on the Peter and Paul fortress , and two out of every three street lights are extinguished for economy so that the puddles and newly fallen snow are discovered only by an errant foot , then it is once again St Petersburg , and Dostoevsky is hump-backed in a slum behind Sennaya Square , and Pushkin is dying after his duel and saying ‘ Good-bye , my friends ’ to his rows of books . |
9 | ‘ When it 's dark and the time is right . |
10 | Because he 's European , he 's bald and the opposite of everything Kirk was and he 's always so messed up about making the right decision … ’ |
11 | It 's freezing and the pitch is rock hard . |
12 | little budgies comes up and I think that 's brilliant and the guy 's face captures it perfectly , you know the actual er smile on his face is ace , excellent . |
13 | Now it 's shrinking and the dye is coming out — look at the water , it 's bright red — you see , you ignore good instructions in your wilfulness and laziness and pride and you pay for it with a ruined skirt . |
14 | I mean people are a bit narrow in this respect you know they do n't like people to talk about it too openly — but I do because I think it 's important but the trouble is that — erm — that 's not really systematic in the sense that I do it but how many other people do it you see . |
15 | Meanwhile it 's sunny and the climbing frame is hauled over to the paddling pool , newly built in the back garden , and the covers are lifted off the sandpit . |
16 | Hmm it 's beautiful and the team |
17 | Where 's Janine and the kid ? ’ |
18 | It 's one or the other . |
19 | ‘ It 's one or the other , is n't it ? |
20 | It 's hard to say it 's one or the other . |
21 | It 's one or the other . |
22 | Yeah when he 's eighteen but the trouble is I do n't know what 's happened I 've lost , I suppose mum 'll have to do it because erm Tom has sort of cut him out , or said he was going to cut him out , but I think |
23 | ‘ It 's quiet and the light 's good , so I think it 'll be ideal . |