Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | yeah , I 's about ten like that , when I was about eleven |
2 | Right , boil off I 's very low It 's boiling but it is at low temperature when it 's boiling . |
3 | I 's very well thank 's . |
4 | Companies which find it more difficult because it 's the centre of their existence , erm , are clearly looking at the situation , but will actually take a very long time to move to the position which you , in your particular group would like them to occupy , and I understand that , changing in I C I is rather different from changing at I B M , and er , therefore it takes longer , but I do see a a consciousness , it 's the same conscious , you 're impatient for change , quite rightly , companies of course , have to keep their employees in an earning capacity , at the same time , er , move towards the position which you would like to them to do , and it may take a long time , but I accept your point , which is with some companies , then in fact , your clearly going to get attention of some kind . |
5 | I know that I , I mean I is just at the moment going through the S A T S course . |
6 | I is there a lot there ? |
7 | I thought she was never going to stop until I heard a woman say , ‘ I see 'er 's still showin' off . ’ |
8 | His is just one example of the new enterprises supplying fish to shops or restaurants that cut out Billingsgate market ; for they also cut out the 25 per cent or so that trading through the market adds to the cost of fish . |
9 | Funk but not funk , jazz but not jazz — his is strictly no sell-out either way . |
10 | Furthermore , the fact that Haines must report to the Jockey Club Stewards and has no authority to act unilaterally has inevitably led to suggestions that his is merely a token appointment . |
11 | I think it is just because his is too mild and wo n't make an effort to assert himself . |
12 | CalMac 's managing director , Colin Paterson , points out that his is possibly the only nationalised industry whose grant has gone down in real terms . |
13 | ‘ As a player , it 's certainly more gruelling doing my own material than Michael 's , because his is mainly rhythm parts with a few solos . |
14 | His is almost the only unsilenced opposition voice . |
15 | Mr Gamage declined the offer , and given his proximity to the matter , his is perhaps the most adequately balanced appraisal of ‘ Those Pistol Cases ’ that can be reached . |
16 | His is constantly pre-occupied with fitness , strength , and staying in peak condition . |
17 | But , like a cat , every muscle in that perfectly honed body of his is permanently coiled in perfect readiness to spring . |
18 | Cos his is like I du n no Sweep |
19 | Yet the argument that she sacrificed her art for his is as stupid as the argument about who influenced whom . |
20 | ‘ Is there a kind way to tell a man the woman he considered his is really yours ? ’ |
21 | Paul is a lawyer other lawyers love to hate , but his is only one of a number of Yorkshire law firms that are sending a chill down the back of the London legal establishment . |
22 | His is so top , go on just do it , go on you , you git |
23 | Evidence of pride in ourselves is also provided by the legacy we leave behind . |
24 | But as researchers are beginning to realise , the way to learn the most about ourselves is probably to combine the two approaches . |
25 | Doubts as to even the possible reality of such a law , arising from an excessively empiricist conception of the possibilities of being , prove unreasonable in the light of the establishable fact that both the every day world in which we live , and we ourselves , are only appearances of a realm of things in themselves whose true nature is hidden from us. for this opens the possibility that what we are in ourselves is essentially rational beings , belonging to a society of rational beings , while what we are as appearances is sensory beings . |
26 | ‘ If we 're talking love-lives , yours is just as open to scrutiny as mine . |
27 | ‘ Yours is right here . ’ |
28 | Kitchens can be cramped , steamy places to swing a camcorder in , and if yours is particularly small you may want to use a wide-angle adapter-lens of the kind which screws onto the front of the lens to increase the angle of view . |
29 | If yours is still being mended , borrow your neighbour 's mower and cut the lawn . |
30 | " It 's a pity that cousin of yours is so disagreeable . |