Example sentences of "'s [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , hello there , my name 's Mike , well let's go over to the weather with Winsy , no Winsy , oh Rita 's dropped dead , she 's jumped off a cliff we think , we think |
| 2 | And er he says well Berty 's arranged for a van to sa to get this suite . |
| 3 | I think also if you read it through there 's no insurance jargon in there at all , except to say that the policy 's underwritten by a Department of Trade approved insurer . |
| 4 | Katie 's come across a problem she 's got too many bits , so she 's going to go up and along , this time she 's |
| 5 | Actually it 's come to a point where as Palestinian women in this country whenever we hear the word feminism , it 's very negative to us because we immediately identify it with Western feminism . |
| 6 | you know the , the things alone and I said get your hands off those doors I do n't like polishing , so he 's come for a cloth and the polish |
| 7 | Imagine then that there 's this group of people , if , can you see now , it 's made like a fish bone , and that , that 's the whole idea , a fish bone diagram . |
| 8 | er and it 's written in a language that hardly anybody can understand anyway . |
| 9 | I think that is a big difficulty that , the diversity of family types simply has n't been recognised and , anything that 's seen as a benefit for one parent families is a political no no ! |
| 10 | I mean , it 's partly I suppose because I do n't watch a lot of football , but women 's football is not generally , it 's occasionally you get an article in the press and it 's seen as a kind of freakish thing ! |
| 11 | You 've got , in fact , to work out what their proper significance is , but there 's no doubt that it 's seen as a kind of turning point , and although it was a Roman Catholic Council , its effect has been marked on all aspects of Christian life in Europe and , well , through the world . |
| 12 | something she 's seen in a magazine or |
| 13 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 14 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 15 | Well Les was saying the only thing you 've got ta be careful of like when you pay money into a bank when you 're in business and you pay money into the bank and the bank then pay your standing orders er and everything 's done through a bank , then the tax office sort of tend to think well fair enough you know , he 's legit . |
| 16 | But er when just before I left the polishing which was in nineteen thirty eight , er they were bringing in a lot of cellu it 's all th a lot of all this modern stuff is what they call cellulose , but I could n't tell you how it 's done , it 's done with a spray . |
| 17 | I mean it 's turned into a bit of a joke now really |
| 18 | Well the the money 's collected by a firm and taken to the bank . |
| 19 | He 's moved into a council house now . |
| 20 | Oh well he 's moved on a day then |
| 21 | So it 's a process , it 's got interests , it 's related to a state and it 's in the international arena , very good , very good , a lot of erm er a lot of very good things there . |
| 22 | Crooked bosses can easily steal their workers ' pension cash MP 's revealed in a shock report . |
| 23 | I have to say , myself , you know I feel one of the worst thing you can call a man in the English language is a term that 's used for a women 's genitalia . |
| 24 | Ten R A F crewmen were killed yesterday when one of the Shackleton 's crashed into a hillside in the outer Hebrides . |
| 25 | It 's wra it 's wrapped in a bag so . |
| 26 | I said the libraries are closed on Wednesdays and Fridays , why do n't you come to the library with me today because it 's closed on a Wednesday and Friday . |
| 27 | Whether she is consciously twisting logic , or just , poor girl , confused , I 'm not sure , but at the end it 's quite clear ‘ So dear I love them that with him all deaths I could endure , without him live no life ’ , that she 's got into a world of fantasy because the one thing that is of course not in question is that Adam should die and that she should live on , which appears to be what she 's referring to here . |
| 28 | It 's gone to it 's got to a stage where he made that statement which he very very much means , he will never ever give them another album of his to market worldwide . |
| 29 | She 's got in a lot of . |
| 30 | She 's alright yeah , well I , I bought her a book but it 's one of these , it 's like a talking book a Disney one , it 's got like a keyboard down the side and you press certain pads and it makes a noise and I thought oh rather than just getting an ordinary book , I thought that would be quite good |