Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In n it taking a time ? |
| 2 | No it 's just they need a teacher . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I daresay it 's just me flying a kite , but the fact is Everett was too bloody inquisitive for his own good . |
| 4 | no she 's not I have a picture of her somewhere , she 's nice him , his , there , there she is |
| 5 | ‘ A lack of cash planning is usually what takes a business down . ’ |
| 6 | Procter & Gamble and Shell in particular , together with several other giant organisations like IBM and Unilever , have their own completely adequate recruiting and training resources , and what is more they follow a policy which actually discriminates against outsiders . |
| 7 | We had , that 's like we had a letter the other day we had to sign for Jonathan . |
| 8 | It is also what makes a book like this so welcome . |
| 9 | erm so the fact that now peasants are running their own associations is n't you know a riff-raff , obviously the peasants in your , your point of view |
| 10 | ‘ Is n't he taking a bit of a risk coming to Germany ? |
| 11 | ‘ I told him , why is n't he making a film about what 's going on in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | Oh yeah yeah I would imagine so but I w er maybe it 's maybe you become a member if you go to a few of their and they get to know your faces or something and then you apply but I do n't really know . |
| 13 | This is how we pole a raft and just because a white man is watching through his funny machine we are n't going to do it any differently . |
| 14 | That is how I make a living , ’ he says . |
| 15 | ‘ That ’ , says Wilcock , ‘ is how I learned a lot about life and a Sophoclean scene where people were learning . ’ |
| 16 | That 's how they got a man on the moon ! |
| 17 | Mr Kennedy says : ‘ If that 's how they treat a witness , I dread to imagine how they treat a suspect . ’ |
| 18 | But I thought if that 's how they run a business So then when they , they moved house I realized they were using an ordinary saucepan to do their chips in and I had visions of fat boiling over and cos it 's gas so I bought them one a very nice deep fryer as a housewarming present . |
| 19 | That 's how one learns a performance . |
| 20 | That 's how he achieved a sound way ahead of its time . |
| 21 | That curiously marked pocket , that brief hint in an article in Mountain , so that 's how you climb a wall like that without protection bolts ! |
| 22 | Then , after the kettle has boiled you pour the hot water into the cup and add the milk and stir it together and that 's how you make a cup of coffee . |
| 23 | But he got married my sister and lived in house down there and er that 's how I got a job there . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't endorse the bands I work with , I work with them because that 's how I make a living . |
| 25 | Let them know what expertise you have and there 's when they have a problem , they come , is that the one by Mr ? |
| 26 | Then I 'ad to get a job ; that 's when I saw a notice in a shop window about a Brixton fam'ly wantin' a maid , so I went after it . |
| 27 | That 's when you had a coalition government and erm then course he , they denationalized the docks then and course now ther one or two docks the they 're putting 'em , making 'em redundant because I said there 's not the manual work today , that 's like London , Liverpool . |
| 28 | It sounds posey perhaps , but Althusser says something along the lines of when there are breaks that 's when you have a chance to change things , a chance to nip in through the cracks and grab the moment . |
| 29 | That 's when you inject a chemical in the spine to paralyse the nerves below that site . |
| 30 | Mm , I think it 's when you want a lot . |