Example sentences of "[pron] 's [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon 'e 's ate new-born babies in 'is time , so I was 'ighly relieved that we parted on friendly terms , as yer might say . ’ |
| 2 | My father could n't come because he 's publicly declared his opposition to the wedding and my mother would n't dare come without him — but she 's sent good wishes through one of the cousins . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's called Cynthia , ’ said my mother as one who says , ‘ She 's called cat-sick . ’ |
| 4 | She 's undergone vital surgery to remove the cancer and now , in addition , is taking the drug , Tamoxifen , which , according to the new research , can reduce the risk of death by a quarter . |
| 5 | ‘ Karim , ’ he said , ‘ she 's become close to me . |
| 6 | Recently , things have got worse and she 's become agoraphobic . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's pumped full of preservative . ’ |
| 8 | Me own stuff was all ragged and I thought I might as well nick something decent , it 'elps a girl , knowing she 's dressed decent . ’ |
| 9 | Sonia : So why take it out on the black people then , she 's told black people to do many things , she 's even called them monkey . |
| 10 | Next morning she 's found floating face-down in the Thames . |
| 11 | ‘ I hear she 's bought new beds , chairs and a piano ! |
| 12 | Miss Rose admitted she did n't remember much of that day , except for Celia 's long labour — which I did know about , but it slipped my mind — so it 's possible she 's forgotten other deliveries during the day , when there were other midwives on duty . |
| 13 | ‘ Everything 's stood still , you see , since my father died . |
| 14 | Attitudes toward science — also treated elsewhere in the same issue — and the apparently instinctive antipathy toward new ideas that do not fit readily into one 's established mental framework , continue to manifest themselves even in the context of the current technological age . |
| 15 | For a touch of extravagance there 's wired ombre ribbon from £1.85 , gold mesh from £2.23 and Japanese passementerie braid from £2.40 to £47 per metre . |
| 16 | It is n't that anybody 's stood still : my lot are now heads of departments , globe-trotting business woman , national charity organisers … and have produced a lot of daughters — for Somerville ? |
| 17 | It 's caused premature ejaculation and has ruined my sex life . ’ |
| 18 | … And at times in retrospect you wish you had taken a certain stat , because it turns out that the whole thing has boiled up , completely beyond what you know it to be , but it 's become political and the authority is being attacked and the chiefs ca n't defend it and say , ‘ OK . |
| 19 | And fishing has changed : it 's become institutionalised , controlled by permits , licences and regulations . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's become necessary to go back . |
| 21 | But by this time it 's become easy to forgive a film that is pleasingly constructed and charmingly executed . |
| 22 | ‘ Suddenly it 's become official again , has it ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's become clear that the crop failure there has been far worse than we realised . ’ . |
| 24 | The president of Prodigy Services Co says the viewdata system is considering a move away from its flat-fee monthly pricing and may start charging by usage for some features , including its bulletin boards : according to Communications Daily , Ross Glatzer said the company 's management is concerned about ‘ rapidly rising telecommunications costs , driven by soaring growth in members ’ use of a handful of features that are most expensive for Prodigy to provide — stock quotes and company news , bulletin boards and airline schedules ; ’ Glatzer said details still are being worked out , but ‘ it 's become clear we must introduce some timed charges for some features in the second half of this year , ’ adding that the problem is one of trying to use flat-rate pricing for some features for which others charge $6 to $18 an hour . |
| 25 | It 's become common practice for babies to be placed on their mother 's stomach immediately after birth but many hospitals still have a policy of removing the baby within the first half hour for measuring and weighing . |
| 26 | People say that Lee is either precious or lazy ( make up yer minds , f—wits ! ) , but it 's become manifest that these songs are worth all the tons of grief and introspection and the endless re-tuning . |
| 27 | It 's believed warm weather has led to a build up of botulism bacteria in the canal . |
| 28 | Now it 's hoped future generations will leave statistics like that behind . |
| 29 | It 's not a miracle cure , but it 's hoped American trials prove it can slow down the onset of Aids . |
| 30 | But it 's turned fine now . " |