Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] 's [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then again I think it is escapism for some of them to get pregnant where there 's so much unemployment , it 's something of their own to be proud about . |
| 2 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 3 | However , when Dickerson says shooting Malcolm X was ‘ like a holiday ’ , it becomes clear that there 's maybe a good reason for keeping his hand in when it comes to his old discipline . |
| 4 | But it 's clear that it 's hardly plausible to account for the current indie mire in those terms , as a problem of indulgence , pretentiousness , over-inflated ambition and gross-out . |
| 5 | If you really like the place , make an offer — but make clear that it 's only ‘ subject to survey and contract ’ . |
| 6 | Speaking as someone with a job I 've got to be very careful about giving advice to people who are in a much worse situation than myself , but from the research we did erm it is clear that it 's very important erm not just to sink in and dwell on your problems , not just to erm stay at home , not meeting other people , not engaging in activities . |
| 7 | Well it 's sensible cos it 's certainly |
| 8 | Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice . |
| 9 | Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice . |
| 10 | quite interesting and it 's quite vague in a way |
| 11 | And you only have to see a police uniform through the door to feel racked with guilt , even though you 've done nothing wrong and he 's only looking for a lost cat . |
| 12 | THIS POOR CHILD IS NINE YEARS OLD AND SHE 'S NEVER SEEN A BARBIE DOLL ! |
| 13 | Over-night accommodation is free and what 's more it 's Bord Failte approved ! ! |
| 14 | Er because appreciate when you introduce something new that 's costing a lot of money it can grow out of all proportion if you 're not careful and it 's much harder to take it away than it was to introduce in the first place . |
| 15 | I tend to play with the wah on the treble setting all the time which gives you an incredibly trebly sound and it 's really hard to make that sound good because it distorts and feeds back all the time . |
| 16 | She 's so flighty and daffy and he 's so glum and boring — you always wondered what they saw in each other . |
| 17 | Even though the days are still quite mild , the nights are cool , the mornings are crisp and there 's definitely more darkness ! |
| 18 | But I mean it sounds really crap but it 's just I swear if he chooses me I 'm gon na fucking slap him . |
| 19 | That 's the only snag with that , that you you can get the wrong But it 's very much way of doing it . |
| 20 | I would n't do it deliberately wrong but it 's so |
| 21 | It might not be cos you might have got the formula wrong and you 've got every one of them wrong but it 's usually a good sign . |
| 22 | He 's a bit funny but he 's all right . ’ |
| 23 | An elderly lady , this weekend actually , i it sounds funny but it 's rather serious what she said actually . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's very safe , he 's very careful but he 's fairly pushy . ’ |
| 25 | It may sound interesting but it 's very dangerous . |
| 26 | Well in the garage it 's a little bit different because there 's only the garage to hit is n't there ? |
| 27 | Yes , I mean that 's something that I enjoy doing , it 's , it 's quite a lot of fun in , in , in , in , coming to , to actually research each walk afterwards , er one for example , the Rollright Stones up on the Warwickshire border , that was particularly interesting because there 's quite a , quite a legend surrounding the Stones up there , er then there 's one at er a place called Hampton Gay just off the Banbury road , the Midlands-North railway line er goes quite close to the village of Hampton Gay , and towards the end of the last century there was a major railway disaster on that track killing about er 30 people I think , er so , you know , things like that which are perhaps not er that well known , you , you , you stumble across when you come to do the research . |
| 28 | But they can be incredibly frustrating when something goes wrong because it 's so hard to get down to a nitty gritty level to sort out your problems . |
| 29 | And then what about the remainder of the old because there 's about four thousand cubic metres of that . |
| 30 | My hair is thick and glossy whereas it 's normally a bit straggly . |