Example sentences of "'s [vb pp] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 'll be some time before she 's traced and identified anyway . |
| 2 | Er , I mean , if if you take an an average case , which may last three or four days , and there 's a lot of evidence of one sort or another , that 's heard and weighed , and considered , and it it boiled down to one paragraph in the newspaper , and who , who chooses to its , to report wh , to report which , the reporter . |
| 3 | His view that the accountants in the earlier case owed a duty of care was based on the fact that they had actual knowledge of the plaintiff 's intended and actual reliance on the accounts that they were to prepare . |
| 4 | From the letters he 's received and through talking to audiences , he knows the production is a popular one . |
| 5 | He 's not too taken with Calcutta and is planning to return to the United States when he 's mugged and robbed of all his possessions . |
| 6 | ‘ OK , the shooting 's stopped and we 're all parked up outside the Butcher Building . |
| 7 | Eventually Maxim 's improvised and placed some leeks , which had been used for consomme " , in front of the King . |
| 8 | She talks to him , anxiously tilting her face upwards so it 's exposed and openly imploring , a look designed to tap compassion . |
| 9 | ‘ His back 's healed and the fever 's gone , miss , though he 's still not himself , ’ Jess said , wishing she could get back to her work and the oblivion of the kitchen . |
| 10 | But this poses a dilemma for the vigneron because the vine , once pruned , is at its most vulnerable to frost , while to wait for the danger of frost to subside would be to waste the vine 's limited and precious energy : the decision of when to prune can prove an expensive one . |
| 11 | ‘ Naturally I want to be sure that we have very precise data about radon 's limited and localised occurrence . |
| 12 | Ido n't think it 's right , my husband 's remarried and there is an income coming in I always thought the child came first |
| 13 | Make it look like she 's fallen and struck 'er head — no tell-tale marks , mind ! |
| 14 | ‘ Everything 's poisoned and I 'm sick of thinking about it . |
| 15 | Well , the best thing about the course is , I think , that you get an all-round view of how it 's arranged and the time aspect of the information flow — that it takes a long time for information to reach the books and compendia etc . |
| 16 | Yes indeed , I mean many argue that in fact a law was n't required , and that the common law , as it 's developed and grown and , for example , in the Quinlan case , says that the withdrawal of treatment , the withholding of consent to treatment , is entirely lawful ; and some might argue that , by giving a law like this , which is rather narrowly drawn , you 've taken away a lot ; in other words , a doctor will feel , this I can do , but the other I ca n't do . |
| 17 | We 're assuming he 's wounded and had to hide nearby . |
| 18 | This booklet describes what the ES does , how it 's organised and where you will fit in . |
| 19 | So his wicked sister 's vanished and now he 's big man on campus . |
| 20 | She 's concussed and they 're keeping her in overnight . |
| 21 | She 's respected and she 's loved . |
| 22 | Like British industry , our Sara 's under-capitalised And no " h " on the end of Sara , " he said . |
| 23 | For a few months , the Labour Party 's bruised and battered members can stir , intrigue and factionalise — and raise their spirits in the process . |
| 24 | He 's attracted and attractive to women and , I 'd guess , to men too , and yet he lives as a celibate . |
| 25 | The orchestra 's disciplined and responsive virtuosity was never in doubt . |
| 26 | The very broad scope of primary prevention raises questions about the boundaries of social work 's permitted and required endeavours . |
| 27 | BP Shipping manages most of the group 's owned and chartered ships . |
| 28 | It 's owned and run by Oxfordshire County Council , which is building another much bigger landfill alongside it intended to take twelve year 's worth of south Oxfordshire 's waste . |
| 29 | It 's smashed and derelict . |
| 30 | I 'm not allowed in there , it 's trapped and very dangerous . |