Example sentences of "[pron] 's [adv] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Katharine Over has only been studying Japanese for a year , but she 's already considered good enough to act as an ambassador for Britain . |
| 2 | She 's now presumed dead . |
| 3 | She checks daily that her changing bag is filled with essential and spare clothes and leaves it permanently packed in the hall ready to pick up at a moment 's notice so she 's never caught unprepared . |
| 4 | Joshua wondered whether the sight , uninvited , of so tweedy a magistrate at one 's rarely opened front door was such as to give confidence to the rural labouring classes . |
| 5 | It 's already won international acclaim with a Grand Prix for the Best European short film … and has just clinched the prestigious Golden Gate award in the United States . |
| 6 | Where he comes from , it 's probably considered insulting not to . ’ |
| 7 | It 's best run full screen , as well , since running it in a window seems only to give you a partial view of the full-screen image , and no scroll bars appear to allow you to see what 's happening in the bits that are n't shown . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's best left alone . |
| 9 | Morley refused to discuss the incident , saying : ‘ I do n't want to say anything — it 's best left alone . |
| 10 | I know that whenever I 've tried to put paint on any cars that we 've ever had , it 's never looked right has it ? |
| 11 | It 's never worked proper |
| 12 | It 's now announced new measures to speed the process up . |
| 13 | So it 's now sold subject to contract ? |
| 14 | The two companies ' more obvious synergies , claims le Quement , extend to design and he 's already given free access to Renault 's Billancourt design centre to all Volvo 's senior designers . |
| 15 | Under the circumstances , he 's unfairly given short shrift . |
| 16 | Yeah , he 's always looked good |
| 17 | Against a dated aspirational set-up , Murphy plays a marketing exec/hotshot ladies ' man ( a change — in the past he 's always seduced other guys , in a manner of speaking ) . |
| 18 | I doubt if any of them 's ever seen real blood , except maybe in the Carlton Club . |
| 19 | A few years ago , er , the joint planning structures , and this is before the introduction of care in the community , dealt or came to be seen politically , dealing very much with joint finance and although , important though it , that is , it 's what 's sometimes called funny money , it 's money at the side , it did n't deal with mainstream policies , and mainstream budgets . |