Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Land passes from father to son : his is split between himself and his father . |
| 2 | Naturally , it is almost duty to bring with bad news a panacea , and his is bottled as ‘ knowhow ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And that man-eating sister of yours is determined to have him herself , is n't she ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I remember pointing at it one day and he said , ‘ Well you have n't got one at all , yours is broken . ' ’ |
| 6 | Yes yours is folded up , my was n't was it ? |
| 7 | I 'm not so bothered about the windows so much cos if they break someone 's bound to hear them smash . |
| 8 | Sitting here I 'm thinking oh , someone 's bound to ring while I 'm sitting here and want to hire something . |
| 9 | And her hair 's gone , someone 's cut off all her hair . " |
| 10 | ‘ Someone 's threatened to exterminate them . ’ |
| 11 | They 're due to go to press this evening and someone 's –ailed to meet the deadline . |
| 12 | Someone 's injured . ’ |
| 13 | Someone 's made a right pig 's ear of them , and that 's a fact . |
| 14 | There , in someone 's misbegotten idea of an English country house , sits the flagship of a worldwide , 145- store empire worth an estimated $3 billion , and built on America 's nagging class insecurity . |
| 15 | Frozen with shock , momentarily , he recovered his scattered wits and shouted , ‘ Sam , stop ; someone 's jumped off the bridge . ’ |
| 16 | Someone 's turned up who claims that Zoser had a visitor the night before he killed the Zikr . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Unless someone 's done it already ? ’ |
| 18 | She 'll have to wait until someone 's finished . |
| 19 | ‘ Someone 's triggered the alarm . |
| 20 | Someone 's put all the wrong lids on . |
| 21 | Someone 's forgotten Grandma . |
| 22 | Earlier texts — including texts by canonical writers like Jane Austen — suggest that so-called ‘ singular they' , as in ‘ if someone 's stolen my pen will they please return it ’ was also used as a generic , perhaps even more than he . |
| 23 | Of all the things I 'd got up to in my time , I never thought I 'd be stitched for trying to return someone 's stolen property . |
| 24 | ‘ He wanted to tell me that someone 's died . ’ |
| 25 | Someone 's told you to talk to me . ’ |
| 26 | Someone 's taken your car . ’ |
| 27 | If Daine really is dead , then someone 's taken his place . |
| 28 | Someone 's taken your chair in the changing room , but I 'll be back . |
| 29 | SOMEONE 'S SUGGESTED a clever little wrinkle that a buyer of Mirror Group Newspapers might be able to employ , were the purchaser to have a pension fund with a substantial surplus . |
| 30 | And someone 's switched the reels . |