Example sentences of "[adj] 's [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Place of abode " means the accused 's home and no doubt his garage . |
| 2 | Mind you my regular 's back and she charges three pounds . |
| 3 | The 10–14 year olds are the most at risk group of all , with the under-14 's more than three times as likely as adults to be injured on any particular foot journey . |
| 4 | On the way back over the lines west we saw a lot of traffic with trains going to Oxford , coal to Didcot power station , 125 's to the West Country and three class 37 's up and down with nowhere to go . |
| 5 | That 's partly because we 're one of Britain 's biggest building societies . |
| 6 | That 's partly because 30 years of pop culture have soaked the working classes with cool and partly because the present generation of art students , thanks to the cuts and the anti-Marxist/'60s/experimental backlash , are wankers . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's partly because , being unaccustomed to serious illness , they ca n't believe something like that can happen to them , partly because they do n't want to believe it . |
| 8 | That 's partly because DOS is easier for programmers to use , partly because of accumulated knowledge , and also , software developers have got pretty clever about squeezing the most out of DOS systems . |
| 9 | That 's partly because Windows encourages developers to do their best , also , Windows represents the growing market ; the one in which an ambitious software writer can make the most impact ( and most money ) . |
| 10 | Comment was made this morning , er earlier on by Mr Timothy about the fact that the new settlement would be likely to generate a higher usage of transport than is the norm for Greater York , if I understood him correctly , erm , knowing the public transport system in Greater York , erm , I fail to see how he could possibly come to that conclusion , because bus services in the rural part of Greater York are very poor , clearly that 's partly because of the distribution of the rural population , and I fail to see that a settlement of the size being suggested would actually generate a level of usage of public transport any higher than that which ex already exists in the York in flat , and certainly no higher than exists within the exis existing urban area . |
| 11 | That 's partly because the company is much healthier and more robust now . |
| 12 | Now I 'd not seen his work before , that 's partly because I 'm in Brighton and not in London and do n't get up that often perhaps , but he has hardly shown in England , whereas he 's very well known in Europe , using Europe for the Continent . |
| 13 | That 's generally if they both desire integration so it 's not just done on the part of one person . |
| 14 | But if you for example you 're born on the sixteenth of the month then that 's generally when it would be paid on the sixteenth . |
| 15 | Newsome is growing in stature with each game though still looks a little shaky ( that 's partially because we know him so well already ) . |
| 16 | That 's doubtless because originators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick are writing about themselves and their friends : like Michael Steadman , who is at the centre of this universe , they are Jews in their mid-thirties married to non-Jews and with young children . |
| 17 | That 's why that you ca n't get I I appreciate exactly what Jim 's saying . |
| 18 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 19 | I said and that 's why cos Paul said to me , he said , I never hear you moan , I said look you wo n't hear me moan because it 's not that I enjoy the job I hate the job I said I hate the work , and I find it hard work but at the end of the day on a Friday , I know that six o'clock in the morning on a Friday I can go up to the Nationwide Anglia , slip my card in there and I know there 's gon na be a couple of hundred of quid in there with the |
| 20 | That 's why when I ran London in April I said I was n't feeling comfortable . |
| 21 | Perhaps that 's why when Unigram.X spoke to him about it later that day he put a surprisingly good face on ( UX No 417 ) . |
| 22 | That 's why when schools are suffering a shortage of teachers , there is a surge of early retirements among staff . |
| 23 | Ah yeah that 's why because because our business was smaller but business was big . |
| 24 | huh , I could n't believe it , I mean he 's been that thick and she says how old are you and he says thirty five , when she 's gone , when he 's gone she said blimey I thought he was forty five did n't ya ? , she said yeah , I said he ai n't wearing very well is he ? , then this woman come in and she was , she 'd had an operation and one of her stitches had n't dissolved and she said I have a shower instead of a bath , perhaps that 's why and Sue says yes that 's why because you need water to dissolve a stitch , so any way she said to her how old are you , she says thirty seven and Sue says |
| 25 | Well Cajun stuff and all that I thought , and then there 's them you can do some long kebabs and all that , that 's why if we get one of them charcoal grills that you can pa shoo , shee shoo . |
| 26 | and that 's why if you remember she was pregnant when we met her |
| 27 | That in fact you exaggerate that space a little bit , you add a little bit more space to help out that line and that 's why if you have a headline you put a little extra space . |
| 28 | Well , well we see that 's , that 's why and , and I did seem to go about , I do n't |
| 29 | huh , I could n't believe it , I mean he 's been that thick and she says how old are you and he says thirty five , when she 's gone , when he 's gone she said blimey I thought he was forty five did n't ya ? , she said yeah , I said he ai n't wearing very well is he ? , then this woman come in and she was , she 'd had an operation and one of her stitches had n't dissolved and she said I have a shower instead of a bath , perhaps that 's why and Sue says yes that 's why because you need water to dissolve a stitch , so any way she said to her how old are you , she says thirty seven and Sue says |
| 30 | Well when you 're driving along you 're looking a long way ahead that 's why and anything that comes in the road you see it Oh I hope whoever was involved in that accident tonight was alright . |