Example sentences of "'s [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll propose Emily 's report and , and in doing so I 'd like to say thank you to her for her sterling work this year , I think she 's done a terrific job erm and I 'd like to thank her personally for the help she 's given me over the year . |
| 2 | They 're like , I do n't know , it 's like they 're really thin , and she 's plucked 'em at the end as a kid . |
| 3 | But Mrs Noel 's let her into the house you see , normally she does n't let the mother 's come in if she 's trying to help a child with difficulties |
| 4 | such important guest this evening she 's let him into the banquet and of course the guys are dying at this stage . |
| 5 | He 's picked me for the Jack Gannon , and I 'm four months under age , and he says Hermia 's really improved . ’ |
| 6 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 7 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 8 | ‘ Angry though he 's made me in the past , he is a good lad . |
| 9 | It does n't take the detective skills of Lord Peter Wimsey to track down the novels of Dorothy L Sayers … she 's made it into the top shelf of crime writers . |
| 10 | She 's written it on the top of the letter . |
| 11 | a contracting business , and he 's done it by the skin of his teeth . |
| 12 | Your shopping 's transferred it to the pantry . |
| 13 | We talked about things going wrong , one of the things that 's disturbed me about the tone of the discussion has been the emphasis of rights . |
| 14 | Because I believe , that only through him , what he 's told me about the club , that it 's a nice club , a nice base for me to start off my career , because that 's what I really am doing . |
| 15 | They are like , and I 've come here to maybe to help get them in a , a better position , because I believe that , only through him , what he 's told me about the club ; that it 's a nice club , a nice base for me to start off my career , because that 's what I 'm really am doing . |
| 16 | Because it 's the media that 's got them on the run is n't it ? |
| 17 | But the trouble is he 's got me into the way of thinking |
| 18 | She 's got me by the jeans — the hand 's scabby — she 's got some skin disease . |
| 19 | And John 's got us onto the next one I see . |
| 20 | So er that was good to remember and she 's got another wedding cake in August I do n't know where she 's got it on the production line . |
| 21 | Of course , that 's right it 's cos it 's got it on the . |
| 22 | We 've got it in , Geoff 's got it in the car we 're gon na try again on the way home . |
| 23 | Paul 's got it in the bowl , in a , in a , on a bowl ? |
| 24 | Her mother stood behind her , giving tongue : ‘ He 's got you on the end of a string , that fellow , has n't he ? |
| 25 | It may be no time at all before he 's got you in the racket . |
| 26 | erm he 's been in it twenty years and er he 's had it on the market for some time . |
| 27 | Er , probably Paul 's had it for the night . |
| 28 | The farmer 's tied him to the fence to stop him butting the sheep and that 's deemed to be cruel . |
| 29 | At least it 's worth a celebration cigar and not just for Arthur Daley , Britain 's beat known comedy Crook , but for the man who 's played him in the Minder series George Cole , although he reckons Arthur would be knocking out replicas already . |
| 30 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |