Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] 's [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps he 's here to decide what to do with the mill . |
| 2 | ‘ It has n't dawned on her yet , and anyway she 's always finding people to look after her , or so she thinks . |
| 3 | I have faith healers coming in twice a week and somehow she 's just carrying on . |
| 4 | and hopefully it 's not gon na change ! |
| 5 | Criticised for looking miserable all the time , but others say his seriousness is a pretence and really he 's just taking the mickey out of himself . |
| 6 | And now somebody 's probably tipped him off that the police are on to him and he 's doing what they all do , running off to Spain where they ca n't get him . |
| 7 | ‘ This thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 8 | Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 9 | And now it 's finally happening . |
| 10 | ‘ Planned it for years to give me pleasure in my retirement and now it 's just getting into a mess . |
| 11 | So that 's all arranged and now it 's just waiting for everything |
| 12 | He says it 'd be devastating — we built the bungalow just 6 years ago and I 've built the farm up over the years and now it 's all going to go under water . |
| 13 | And now it 's almost finished , except for one last job . |
| 14 | And now he 's nowhere earning |
| 15 | Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year . |
| 16 | Mrs and now she 's just gon na go burn out ! . |
| 17 | ‘ He likes to be adored of course , and maybe he 's just lobbying for an extension of his fan club , but I would n't have thought he was that desperate . |
| 18 | We 've been lucky so far , and maybe it 's still working . ’ |
| 19 | And then she 's just think of that . |
| 20 | Yeah and then she 's already cut it up into twelfths like this and then she thinks about asking them who wants pizza and there 's only four of them want pizza after all this trouble . |
| 21 | And he just sat I swear and then he 's just sitting there |
| 22 | so they 're trying to corner it and it 's munching on grass quite happily , you could see it was watching a minute , but it was watching them away and I think er any minute it 's looking out the corner of its eye and then it 's just gon na go when he sees it getting closer . |
| 23 | There is a small dam to pass , and then it 's plain sailing all the way back to the car park to live with the shame that we failed to live up to the term ‘ fit walkers ’ . |
| 24 | and then it 's not disturbing her although we 've been using the bottom bedroom really . |
| 25 | And then it 's not spelt the same way as this when it 's on a boat |
| 26 | It makes me cross — all that work and then it 's all consumed in two minutes . |
| 27 | Someone says , ‘ Ding , ’ and then it 's actually happening — sick old Muhammad Ali is really boxing . |
| 28 | and then suddenly from the other end there 's this like , cos we , it 's like a big room , it 's the other end of the room all the dealers there , and er anyway and er and suddenly I hear , and then someone 's like saying talking , they 're all , somebody 's like mi microphone and starts talking to them about er what 's happening in the market , things like that blah blah blah blah blah , and this means blah blah blah blah so watch out for blah blah blah and I thought it 's like living in a different world , it 's amazing . |
| 29 | I do n't I think he does , I think he comes late at night , Paul er said cos sometimes he 's up watching videos or whatever |
| 30 | Well we read about prayer and we know about its power but you know we often do n't avail ourselves off it and yet it 's plainly written . |