Example sentences of "[det] 's [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | One old chap said , ‘ What 's up lad , tha ’ looks as if tha 's seen a ghost ! ’ |
2 | The kindly old chap who gave up his seat for me brought me my pint saying ‘ Drink this mate , you 'll feel better when tha 's supped that . ’ |
3 | Lady Macbeth succeeds in calming him by her usual tactics of scornful reductivism : ‘ When all 's done , /You look but on a stool ’ ( 67f. ) , and mockery of his cowardice : ‘ What ! quite unmanned in folly ? ’ ( 73 ) . |
4 | The final text has ‘ When all 's said and done I 've got the habits of a decent man ’ . |
5 | Five drafts of the relevant passage survive , the first reading ‘ When all 's said and done I 'm a decent man ’ . |
6 | Men are all little boys at heart , when all 's said and done , and it 's not only women that like to have these little playthings about to make a break in the daily round . |
7 | Blood 's thicker than water , when all 's said and done , ’ Mary Ann was saying . |
8 | We are not papists when all 's said and done . ’ |
9 | We 're all horrified by one another , we humans , and there 's an end to it , but I shall be a good boy and sit quietly stroking Hosanna who is , when all 's said and done , my only true friend . ’ |
10 | These people are businessmen , when all 's said and done , and everyone 's got something to hide . |
11 | As one man expressed it : ‘ When all 's said and done we have to get a product out and the management are interested in how cheap it can be done and although it means sacrificing the worker it means one has a cheap product . ’ |
12 | In the end , when all 's said and done , you just ca n't help liking Mister C. He has his enemies , of course . |
13 | After all , he is nobility , when all 's said and done . ’ |
14 | Father Kendrick 's father was a bishop , after all , and Mrs Kendrick is the niece of Lady Nichols , when all 's said and done . |
15 | After all 's said and done , he did shoot the man . ’ |
16 | But that helps just to talk to someone who knows what your going through , but , when all 's said and done , I think it 's down to yourself , really . |
17 | When all 's said and done , Oliver does like to cause a bit of a stir . |
18 | ‘ A womanly attitude when all 's said and done , ’ observed Grace charitably . |
19 | ‘ I still ai n't forgiven you for what you said , but when all 's said and done , blood 's thicker than water . ’ |
20 | ‘ You 're very welcome — have n't the Irish and the Welsh a lot in common , when all 's said and done ? ’ |
21 | ‘ And she had a good life , when all 's said . ’ |
22 | Still , when all 's said — we are in this to make money ! |
23 | Still , when all 's said , it 's not a clean job . |
24 | I 'll do it , why not , what 's a bit of washing when all 's said and done ? ’ |
25 | And , when all 's said and done , there 's not much wrong with a little wantonness here and there . |
26 | Eileen Harman 's a pain in the neck when all 's said and done . ’ |
27 | So the Armalite joke might not be far off , when all 's said and done . ’ |
28 | When all 's said and done it 's the character that counts . ’ |
29 | the thing is , after all 's said and done if er , i i if there 's a little pain I get it , not him ! |
30 | said and done , mm , after all 's said and done course I well I said there 's good , bad , and indifferent everything cos I know some Masons who are blinking great rogues , you know ! |