Example sentences of "[pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I is doing . |
| 2 | Land passes from father to son : his is split between himself and his father . |
| 3 | Driving like his is helping the growth of off-road riding . |
| 4 | Naturally , it is almost duty to bring with bad news a panacea , and his is bottled as ‘ knowhow ’ . |
| 5 | He wants to talk about getting some of his poets to work on the Alps — he 's looking after one or two o the Romantics for a few months , while a colleague of his is sitting on a commission of inquiry . |
| 6 | He asked me if I would be kind enough to remind all parents that his is returning to the Skarloey Railway at the end of October . |
| 7 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |
| 8 | One way to remind ourselves is to reflect that , even today , not all the phenotypic effects of a gene are bound up in the individual body in which it sits . |
| 9 | For example the most usual constraint we impose on ourselves is to believe that it is incumbent on us to carry out all the steps of a manufacturing process ourselves . |
| 10 | Part of the chapter on motivation deals with obesity , and the discussion of theories of why we stuff ourselves is capped by a cartoon in which a chef tells a fat blimp ‘ As far as I know there 's no such thing as a diet cream puff . ’ |
| 11 | The only measure that we can take to help ourselves is to become more aware of how we go about simple , mundane actions . |
| 12 | ‘ And that man-eating sister of yours is determined to have him herself , is n't she ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I remember pointing at it one day and he said , ‘ Well you have n't got one at all , yours is broken . ' ’ |
| 14 | So if yours is looking poorly , hack it out and replace it . |
| 15 | Yours is bearing up well . |
| 16 | That hair of yours is getting right long . |
| 17 | ‘ That temper of yours is going to get you into trouble one day , Scotty , ’ Hitch told him . |
| 18 | Kate , I do n't know what you define as glamour , but , if you do n't think this little outfit of yours is going to get all the boys hot and panting , then you want your head seen to . |
| 19 | ‘ So obviously this guest cottage of yours is going to be just perfect . ’ |
| 20 | The morning before the big race Lester was cantering alongside Reid and quietly remarked : ‘ Yours is going well . ’ |
| 21 | Cos yours is gon na be complicated . |
| 22 | Yours is gon na be as long is n't it ? |
| 23 | Yes yours is folded up , my was n't was it ? |
| 24 | And yours is coming Bec . |
| 25 | ‘ If someone is determined to prevent an agreement or can not agree then there wo n't be one . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ In any case , if someone is determined to go in the sea , for whatever reason , they can just hop over the wall , which is only two or three feet high . |
| 27 | The justification is that while someone is receiving acute care they have the prospect of returning to an independent life in the community , with consequent retention of personal housing . |
| 28 | The entire fabric and balance of power within the group may be shattered if someone is transferred or promoted . |
| 29 | Another example of this is when someone is asked to identify a body if , for example , there has been an accident in a public place . |
| 30 | When someone is asked a question , it is likely that before answering he will direct his gaze away from the questioner 's eyes ( Argyle and Cook , 1976 ) particularly if the question requires some thought . |