Example sentences of "'s [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , that 's why he 's presumably chosen what he wants to do , and th and the description at the end of the way he he led his life while he was overseas quite incredible ! |
| 2 | When Charles Kingsley writes in his description of the sewer of ‘ the slow sullen rows of oily ripple … sending up … hot breaths of miasma ’ , he is being quite specific ; but in Dickens 's Little Dorrit the word is virtually symbolic of confusion , as the pervasive fog is in Bleak House . |
| 3 | ‘ I present some of the world 's little known devices , ’ says Wilf , sporting a huge handle bar moustache and a regulation white coat . |
| 4 | It 's little wonder that the naturally shy Morrissey often seeks to retreat . |
| 5 | Gerald has been known to coin such memorable one-liners as the following : ‘ If the joy of the Lord is our strength , it 's little wonder that the church in Britain has been so weak and ineffective ’ ; ‘ There 's no virtue in being ten or twenty years behind the times ’ ; ‘ Most Christians are nicer than God himself ’ ; ‘ It is the unshared areas of our lives where Jesus is not Lord ’ ; ‘ One of the reasons the church in Britain has failed to grow is quite simply because it is full of people who are extremely rude ’ ; ‘ Putting the life of God into institutional Christianity is rather like putting the life of a human being into a kangaroo … . ’ 'You are only a leader if someone 's following you' ( Gerald Quotes ) . |
| 6 | It 's little wonder that this month Patrick Eggle guitars occupy two of the top ten slots in the British guitar sales league . |
| 7 | Add to that the dreadfully long hours that doctors and nurses have to work — sometimes 16-18 hour shifts — and it 's little wonder that mistakes are made . |
| 8 | It 's little wonder that the fax machine is so popular and that dial-up E-mail is such a rare species . |
| 9 | The fact of her being your grandfather 's little by-blow ! ’ |
| 10 | But it 's very difficult for parents in those situations perhaps to accept the , the deep-seated nature of their children 's problems , especially if it 's , it 's somewhere connected with the kind of defective relationships they 're having within their own homes . |
| 11 | It 's somewhere to go . ’ |
| 12 | It 's somewhere to go . |
| 13 | ‘ It is n't the Ritz , but at least there 's somewhere to sit , if you care to throw a cushion or two on the bench . ’ |
| 14 | basically , besides it 's somewhere to call in |
| 15 | ‘ It 's somewhere to hang my hat . |
| 16 | Steven and his numerous family are still on the canal 's somewhere having a hol . |
| 17 | The sanitation has improved since the merchant 's time , but it 's somewhere to treasure as much for what has n't happened to it as for what has . |
| 18 | He says that there 's somewhere to park , and the grub is cheap . |
| 19 | Most of it 's vastly populated and punctuated by well defined compact small market towns and villages . |
| 20 | Just explain that it 's wholly favoured by Harry Dobson , the frugal company car manager . |
| 21 | The ticket collector , who had just had a new perm , thought the girl 's geometrically cut and excessively short hair awful . |
| 22 | No , Sky One there 's nothing it 's mostly wrestling Saturday afternoons . |
| 23 | Erm , which is a very proportion of their costs , it 's mostly funded by the D T I , and some private sector investment . |
| 24 | CAS : The Communicating Software Specification standard is n't confined to fax modems — it 's mostly used to network a single fax card . |
| 25 | It 's mostly sewing job in the clothing factories , low-paid . |
| 26 | ‘ But stay off that bike until the shoulder 's properly healed . ’ |
| 27 | When he looks up , thought Jinny , he 'll tell us all what to do and the day will be gone before it 's properly started . |
| 28 | it 's properly set out . |
| 29 | No I thought , cos I , I remember reading erm I think it 's her father who owns one of the bookshops in Woodbridge and he had this book on display , you know he sort of erm advertised it if you like and it 's , it 's properly published and everything but he had it as a a book available in his store and there was an advert in the Anglian about it , and I remember reading that she said er that he said er cos it was his daughter who had the child , that it totally knocked them for six . |
| 30 | Once it 's properly launched , where everyone can see it , you wo n't have to worry too much about rocking the boat , ’ he said . |