Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 AD develop a much more formal likelihood ratio test of this relationship by estimating the model across all countries with the β i 's unrestricted and then with the β i 's restricted , according to the formula given in equation ( 6.24 ) .
2 I 's eat all the chocolate first and the inside afterwards
3 I I 's thinking well this long would make the blinking situation worse and we 're trying to resolve it .
4 Yes I 's going to get all my books .
5 I 's gon na say the bags full .
6 and er I thought I , I 's gon na put our ski stuff , our ski er etcetera in that on the roof
7 exactly what I 's expect and you may find they actually sort of are on a down-slope still .
8 I is doing .
9 ‘ An' 'er 's gooin' ter get married all in white , orange blossoms an' all , ’ said another .
10 Land passes from father to son : his is split between himself and his father .
11 Driving like his is helping the growth of off-road riding .
12 Naturally , it is almost duty to bring with bad news a panacea , and his is bottled as ‘ knowhow ’ .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 . ’
19 The only measure that we can take to help ourselves is to become more aware of how we go about simple , mundane actions .
20 ‘ And that man-eating sister of yours is determined to have him herself , is n't she ? ’
21 ‘ I remember pointing at it one day and he said , ‘ Well you have n't got one at all , yours is broken . ' ’
22 So if yours is looking poorly , hack it out and replace it .
23 Yours is bearing up well .
24 That hair of yours is getting right long .
25 ‘ That temper of yours is going to get you into trouble one day , Scotty , ’ Hitch told him .
26 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 .
27 ‘ So obviously this guest cottage of yours is going to be just perfect . ’
28 The morning before the big race Lester was cantering alongside Reid and quietly remarked : ‘ Yours is going well . ’
29 Cos yours is gon na be complicated .
30 Yours is gon na be as long is n't it ?
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