Example sentences of "'s [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six are Pegasus Group plc , Multisoft Financial Solutions Ltd , Sage Group plc , Systems Union Ltd , Tetra Ltd and Misys plc 's T IS Software Ltd . |
| 2 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 3 | It 's nothing to be proud of , just a fact . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's nothing we can do for her now and it 's House Full tonight . |
| 5 | We 're agreed , I think , that , ghastly though it is , there 's nothing we can do for that poor girl at the moment , and that Rita can go on for her . |
| 6 | They always stay till there 's nothing left to eat or drink . |
| 7 | ‘ Thanks , pet , but there 's nothing you can do . |
| 8 | There 's nothing funny about it . ’ |
| 9 | It 's nothing to be proud of it . |
| 10 | It 's nothing to do with coming , it 's everything to do with intoxication , flesh-frenzy , reckless rampant effervescent fever . |
| 11 | It 's nothing to do with you . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ That 's nothing to do with anything . |
| 13 | ‘ Well it 's nothing to get upset about . |
| 14 | There 's nothing you can do about it , ’ I can hear some of you thinking . |
| 15 | These crags are already equipped , and there 's nothing you can do about it except enjoy the security . |
| 16 | ‘ I wo n't allow myself to be tortured , ’ Raskolnikov tells Porfiry , but our sense of their three long encounters is that there 's nothing either of them can do about it . |
| 17 | He suggests that he 's got no evidence , then that he 's got some evidence , then both at once : ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — the torture tune . |
| 18 | Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come . |
| 19 | There 's nothing necessarily wrong with that . |
| 20 | ‘ My relatives used to come over and say : ‘ There 's nothing in the shops ’ , and I thought it was ridiculous , because there was plenty , ’ a 47-year-old lathe operator from Dresden told me yesterday . |
| 21 | Only we are behaving as if it 's nothing to do with us and that only the West is to blame for the thousands who turn their back on us . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ There 's nothing special about being a heavyweight or having an Olympic gold medal in the United States . |
| 23 | There 's nothing like winning . |
| 24 | He 'll want you to know because he 's nothing to hide . |
| 25 | Another said , ‘ The way I look at it , it 's too late now ; there 's nothing can be done which can put the clock back ; let's see what we can do to help the victim ’ ( FN 6/11/87 , p. 35 ) . |
| 26 | It 's no good standing there , there 's nothing you can do to help . ’ |
| 27 | When questioned about this , one peasant retorted ‘ From where else are we to take thatch , there 's nothing left on which to feed the livestock , ’ An exception proved the rule . |
| 28 | There 's nothing in the way of our getting married , and I love you , Michael . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ There 's nothing like the lake and the open air for powdering through the lessons . ’ |
| 30 | There 's nothing daunting about the Healey . |