Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | ‘ And that man-eating sister of yours is determined to have him herself , is n't she ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I remember pointing at it one day and he said , ‘ Well you have n't got one at all , yours is broken . ' ’ |
| 9 | So if yours is looking poorly , hack it out and replace it . |
| 10 | Yours is bearing up well . |
| 11 | That hair of yours is getting right long . |
| 12 | ‘ That temper of yours is going to get you into trouble one day , Scotty , ’ Hitch told him . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ So obviously this guest cottage of yours is going to be just perfect . ’ |
| 15 | The morning before the big race Lester was cantering alongside Reid and quietly remarked : ‘ Yours is going well . ’ |
| 16 | Cos yours is gon na be complicated . |
| 17 | Yours is gon na be as long is n't it ? |
| 18 | Yes yours is folded up , my was n't was it ? |
| 19 | And yours is coming Bec . |
| 20 | Or between wife and husband , we tend to think only of transfer from husbands to wife , but er we do meet quite er a w er ladies who 've got quite high earnings and they themselves are paying forty percent in which case they should make sure that any investment income of theirs is transferred to the husband , so as to get the , to either use up allowances that are not being used at all because of absence of the income , or to benefit from these different rates of tax . |
| 21 | Some women ca n't make it last the week so theirs is kept in the office . |
| 22 | In due course , his successor , Sir Kenneth Newman , echoed this anti-intellectual stance , when he warned insiders that ‘ policemen must remember that they are practitioners , not crusaders ; theirs is to do , not to righteously philosophise ’ ( Police Journal 56 , No. 1 ( 1983 ) ) . |
| 23 | And it can all fall through because theirs is falling through or they ca n't get out when you want and that can go on for Can it not ? |
| 24 | They must go through life knowing that a child of theirs is suffering a limited existence and being cared for by someone else . ’ |
| 25 | So long as yu is living an yu want eat food |
| 26 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 27 | He goes to me , so she said , yeah but she does n't want to come , and he says yeah but Grant says she is does n't he |
| 28 | In doing so she is reviving the ‘ great divide ’ theory that has been so discredited by social anthropologists and sociolinguists . |
| 29 | I tell her she is singing , ‘ I am your woman and you are my man . |
| 30 | If someone was making a confession about an unfaithful lover , and was on the edge of tears , people would often say , listen , darling , this woman knows what she is singing about . |