Example sentences of "and it 's a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Like most other immigrants , Rita came here following a dream and it 's a dream she does n't want to give up . |
2 | It 's going to offend a lot of people , and it 's a problem which I 'm sure exercises a lot of minds . |
3 | We had a brilliant time and it 's a pity you only get to do it once : Maybe we 'll split up and reform under a different name — so we can have a crack at it next year . |
4 | Spruce , signed just three seasons ago from Widnes Tigers amateur club , said : ‘ After switching about a lot this season I 've settled in well at full back and it 's a position I really enjoy . |
5 | They 're singing gold-rush songs at the tops of their voices in the dayniter and it 's a wonder they have n't all rocked the train right off the rails , with the noise and the booze . ’ |
6 | Well he di he did a video a and it 's a wonder it were n't banned ! |
7 | Erm and it 's quite , you know and it 's a subject I 've never done before |
8 | ‘ I saw the accident and it 's a corner you have to have respect for , ’ Dunlop said . |
9 | Oh got to produce a few sheets of stuff and we 've got ta get the addresses of the bases and get it distributed and it 's a task I 'm gon na pass on |
10 | I mean if you take the regulatory we did it with today that it consists of the Bank of England , the Securities and Investment Board , twenty four organisations of the S I B S , siblings you might call them er under it , the Building Societies Commission , the police , the serious fraud office , the Department of Trade and Industry , the London Stock Exchange , the Inland Revenue , five recognised supervisory bodies , all those dealing with er auditors and the others , it 's chaos er and nobody knows who is responsible for what and in that chaos you get overlapping decisions er er and conflicting regulations , everybody tries to ensure themselves by regulating too much er er and it 's a situation which drastically needs simplification , but we do n't have any proposals for strengthening and making that work er er frame work more effective , to back up er this er simple proposal today . |
11 | And it 's a quality he put to good use when he performed a parachute jump to raise money for a girl who suffers from a rare heart condition . |
12 | He 's throwing in the towel and it 's a towel he 's never even held anyway , ’ said Mrs Mainwaring . |
13 | Dealing with injured bats , unwanted newts and cats with bad breath is all in the line of duty for Christine Hall — and it 's a job she would n't want to swap for a million pounds . |
14 | The doctors have a word for that misery ; they call it anhedonia , which only means an inability to feel enjoyment , and that 's what it is , but it feels like hell , like true hell , and it 's a hell you ca n't even escape from in sleep because overdosing on cocaine gives you chronic insomnia . ’ |
15 | It 's a mighty brew , and it 's a sound which could well carry them to a much higher level of success , if that 's what they want . |
16 | He says there are lots of tourists and it 's a shame they just come for that . |
17 | There is a sense of which that good housekeeping with the inevitable consequences of government policy can be , can be in terms if you like , or benefits to the council tax payers , who have after all in a under the complete disaster of the poll tax which nobody but nobody in this chamber I suspect knew more unless there is at least one partisan tory who will try to save it , it was really a wonderful experiment and it 's a shame it did n't continue . |