Example sentences of "'s [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll propose Emily 's report and , and in doing so I 'd like to say thank you to her for her sterling work this year , I think she 's done a terrific job erm and I 'd like to thank her personally for the help she 's given me over the year . |
| 2 | They 're like , I do n't know , it 's like they 're really thin , and she 's plucked 'em at the end as a kid . |
| 3 | But Mrs Noel 's let her into the house you see , normally she does n't let the mother 's come in if she 's trying to help a child with difficulties |
| 4 | such important guest this evening she 's let him into the banquet and of course the guys are dying at this stage . |
| 5 | I mean , he 's respected me in a queer way . |
| 6 | He 's picked me for the Jack Gannon , and I 'm four months under age , and he says Hermia 's really improved . ’ |
| 7 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 8 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 9 | ‘ Angry though he 's made me in the past , he is a good lad . |
| 10 | It does n't take the detective skills of Lord Peter Wimsey to track down the novels of Dorothy L Sayers … she 's made it into the top shelf of crime writers . |
| 11 | She 's written it on the top of the letter . |
| 12 | That he 's owed me for a year ! |
| 13 | It 's seen me through a lot . " |
| 14 | mum 's done it in a sweater then it |
| 15 | a contracting business , and he 's done it by the skin of his teeth . |
| 16 | I whimpered like a child , crouching in the cold , slimy darkness , until the grille above was pulled back and a bailiff with a face like a gargoyle 's lashed me with a whip , before lowering a stoup of brackish water and a fly-infested dish of rancid meat . |
| 17 | It 's turned you into a human being yet ? |
| 18 | Your shopping 's transferred it to the pantry . |
| 19 | We talked about things going wrong , one of the things that 's disturbed me about the tone of the discussion has been the emphasis of rights . |
| 20 | Because I believe , that only through him , what he 's told me about the club , that it 's a nice club , a nice base for me to start off my career , because that 's what I really am doing . |
| 21 | They are like , and I 've come here to maybe to help get them in a , a better position , because I believe that , only through him , what he 's told me about the club ; that it 's a nice club , a nice base for me to start off my career , because that 's what I 'm really am doing . |
| 22 | One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time . |
| 23 | He 's got them on a |
| 24 | Because it 's the media that 's got them on the run is n't it ? |
| 25 | Because the machine was so busy , just after the time he introduced it , the line was never available to do all the checks that were on that and it and Roland 's got them in a file there |
| 26 | But the trouble is he 's got me into the way of thinking |
| 27 | She 's got me by the jeans — the hand 's scabby — she 's got some skin disease . |
| 28 | ‘ She 's got him on a pedestal . ’ |
| 29 | She , she 's got him on a string ai n't she ! |
| 30 | And she 's got him into a very good er nursery school apparently . |