Example sentences of "'s [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Caine would choose from a variety of eateries , while Poitier always plumped for Peter Langan 's elegantly seductive Odin 's , just off Marylebone High Street .
2 What a jolly afternoon we were going to have , nosing round people 's dripping wet yuk .
3 It 's presumably popular for its unusual appearance , but it requires very dim lighting and a peat or sand substrate in which it can burrow for food .
4 That 's presumably why people like Rotosound , Picato and Dean Markley use them .
5 I mean th it 's Presumably it must be putting out unburned hydrocarbons .
6 ‘ The blow fell with the merciless swiftness of all misfortune ’ it was someone else 's line , a client 's presumably .
7 ‘ And that 's presumably when you went for a smoke on the roof ? ’
8 So it 's presumably er a competition or a or er demonstrating the old fashioned agricultural machinery .
9 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 !
10 She 's presumably British Army of the right I do n't know
11 mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes .
12 But she 's immaculately clean !
13 It 's little short of criminal . ’
14 It 's little wonder that the naturally shy Morrissey often seeks to retreat .
15 It 's little tiny things that matter , especially at first when you 're going into a Home , they are very important .
16 It 's little different from the usual ideal image , but Milligan sees influences that many of us miss .
17 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 ) .
18 It 's little wonder that this month Patrick Eggle guitars occupy two of the top ten slots in the British guitar sales league .
19 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 .
20 It 's little wonder that the fax machine is so popular and that dial-up E-mail is such a rare species .
21 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 .
22 It 's — it 's little short of traitorous , ’ he said .
23 Believe it , brothers and sisters , no other band anywhere can so consistently articular what 's little short of a full-scale earthquake — one that 's flavoured with more than the odd hint of Isaac Hayes , James Brown , Blue Cheer , Swans and vintage Black Sabbath !
24 The fact of her being your grandfather 's little by-blow ! ’
25 Believe it , brothers and sisters , no other band anywhere can so consistently articular what 's little short of a full-scale earthquake — one that 's flavoured with more than the odd hint of Isaac Hayes , James Brown , Blue Cheer , Swans and vintage Black Sabbath !
26 ‘ I present some of the world 's little known devices , ’ says Wilf , sporting a huge handle bar moustache and a regulation white coat .
27 It 's fuckin typical , just when we were on a role , our most important player is out for 6–8 weeks and his next in line is sold .
28 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 .
29 I know my wallet 's somewhere
30 ‘ That really he 's somewhere else . ’
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