Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [is] " in BNC.
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1 | Now , say more about that practically , because I mean if you 're depressed , you may feel too depressed to go to a a professional , you may have great difficulty getting there for whatever reason because you 're ashamed as someone mentioned , you 're embarrassed , you do n't want to admit you ca n't cope , which is a syndrome once you get there how do you pluck up the courage to say well actually what your offering me is n't good enough , I 've heard on on television there is something better and I want it ? |
2 | The view through the small rear mirror is rather limited , as Jill Stanton has mentioned before , and the manual wing mirrors are so stiff that trying to fine-tune them is like trying to thread a needle wearing boxing gloves . |
3 | Since Billy 's 'ad that gym on 'is mind 'e 's bin like a cat on 'ot bricks . |
4 | JC : Of course , in Crabbe 's The Borough she is blind . |
5 | For all the days before her visit to the mikva she is nidda , or set apart , and she and her husband must not even touch . |
6 | ‘ It 's no good thinking she 's going to come because she 's not , ’ called out Kraal from his shelter between bites at his new food . |
7 | At 18 , she decides after her affair with the French teacher that outwardly she is a girl , she looks like a girl , and she ca n't go through life thinking she 's a boy . |
8 | erm , because she 's , she 's quite big for her age , but like Louise she 's quite tall now , she 's nearly too tall for him even though there 's nothing of her she must only be about seven stone , erm , but this little Vicky she 's oh thinking she 's really good now and she 's improved so much and getting confident as well , and the dad takes in , he puts the bridle on him , he takes the dog in one hand and Min in the other he goes for walks for miles with the , with the horse and the dog Dave does |
9 | It is not difficult to see whose side she is on ! |
10 | To make her know which side she 's on . ’ |
11 | One of the few clues to Joan Main 's whereabouts appeared to be a birthday card she 's sent to her mother from Newport . |
12 | In future she is going to be harder . |
13 | But his mother says that without the compensation her son had hoped for , it 's his long term future she 's worried about . |
14 | Er yo your car she 's using then ? |
15 | No you can wait until you can see her going out with wait until the car 's not there if you know what car she 's driving these days . |
16 | It 's in my mind she 's of greater importance than she seems . |
17 | No but bearing in mind she 's talking of going out , saying that they 're gon na go out Monday night for it are n't we ? |
18 | But bear in mind she 's , you know , she 's walked out of the |
19 | She has such a thirst after knowledge that the more she knows , I verily think the humbler she is , and I can not help letting go as fast as she pulls as my son used to do to his kite . |
20 | Her friend — for she and Rose had become quite close — had sniffed at Mrs Langtry , and said kindly , ‘ I ‘ ear as ‘ ow she 's a right fat cow these days , ’ and fortunately had not asked to look at the other one she had bought . |
21 | The more I see of her , the more I realise how much of a stranger she is to me . |
22 | As a result she is not allowed by her mother to supplement the family income by helping her in the fields , since to be seen doing it would mean she had become an illiterate villager again . |
23 | As a result she is cast out by society and some members of her family . |
24 | ‘ From her photograph she 's attractive and younger , so one makes the natural assumption … ’ |
25 | Even that Chanel suit she got in Paris ca n't disguise all the weight she 's put on . |
26 | Well I 'm finishing me tape she 's coming for it in the morning . |
27 | By the way just for the tape she 's a right fuck . |
28 | ‘ It 's not her fault she 's mad , poor thing . ’ |
29 | I know it 's my fault she 's here , I suppose in a few years time I 'll wish I 'd been here , but now I want to be out enjoying myself . |
30 | ‘ She lays it at our door , I am sure , and yet it is not our fault she is in difficulties . ’ |