Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] 's [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother , on the other head , goes to Bernard of Anlaby Road once a fortnight , where she 's ceremonially washed , lotioned , rollered , dried , combed-out and lacquered for roughly the price of my pansy-brain shampoo . |
| 2 | The richest source of MUFAs is olive oil — there is a low incidence of coronary heart disease in Mediterranean countries where it 's widely used . |
| 3 | A deluxe high level Sola grill with glass side panels to keep the heat in and a ‘ grill-and-serve ’ position for the grill pan where it 's safely supported when pulled out leaving both hands free to turn or serve the food . |
| 4 | somewhere in Mexico , the central part of it where it 's still falling to bits and |
| 5 | anything or it 's never published that if you go self-employed |
| 6 | Either there are more bitches on heat in the village nowadays , or he 's simply getting into the habit of looking . |
| 7 | Depending on which gossip column you read he 's either planning to wed his long-term live-in girlfriend , Toukie Smith , sister of the late fashion designer Willie Smith , or he 's secretly dating model Naomi Campbell . |
| 8 | ‘ I felt much happier after talking to you , although nothing 's really changed . ’ |
| 9 | British Telecommunications Plc 's Customer Systems division — ‘ the largest UK systems house that no-one 's ever heard of ’ — has spent the past three years restructuring and now reckons it is set to take the world by storm . |
| 10 | These are the findings of a survey commissioned by British Telecommunications Plc 's systems integration division , Customer Systems — ‘ the largest UK systems house that no-one 's ever heard of ’ . |
| 11 | And I do n't fancy a house that somebody 's actually living in . |
| 12 | Cos I think he 's sort of realized now that nobody 's particularly impressed by him taking six grammes and twelve Es at once and going oh I took six grammes of and twelve Es at once and I was really fucked . |
| 13 | Tracey said that she 's just gon na be one of these the judge either likes you or he do n't like you . |
| 14 | It seems to me that she 's also saying , it 's also a plea , on Charlotte Bronte 's behalf to men , to want women who come to them developed , independent and |
| 15 | Katia says that she 's profoundly irritated by artists who insist that they go home , shut the door , and become ‘ normal ’ — ‘ What is this normal ? |
| 16 | I mean , it 's not that she 's probably gon na go after it but I , you know , who knows ! |
| 17 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 18 | Kat Bjelland rather teasingly answered that she 's never felt constrained by male domination — unwillingly . |
| 19 | Well I think , I 've got ta say that I think it might be ha it might be working better now with there but when not there and we go to and say can you tell me where X Y Z is , the response you 're gon na get is I 'm sorry I do n't know and the reason she wo n't know is that she 's never bothered to ask because she 's not talking so it 's okay while there but it wo n't be when she 's not because I 've had that , sorry I do n't know . |
| 20 | any problems , any problems the council for er two years , there are and I think that she 's actually provided a very significant contributions to the council . |
| 21 | But when you know that she 's safely tucked up in bed , you come out with a towel around you . |
| 22 | She says that she 's still affected by what happened . |
| 23 | To the extent that she 's now confusing the show business quality of performing well in public — at which she excels — with spirituality and saintliness . |
| 24 | The book sold so well locally that she 's now published it for sale countrywide ; available from WH Smith , Sherratt & Hughes and Waterstone 's bookshops or direct from Barbara Geere at 15 Stamford Drive , Bromley , Kent BR2 0XF ( 081–460 3646 ) , priced £2.30 ( inc p&p ) . |
| 25 | There is , of course , nothing wrong with trying to look your best , but for the born-again Weldon to refuse to see anyone unless she spent half the day in the hairdressers and then proclaim that she 's only doing it to further her career ( oh , please ) smacks of hypocrisy of the very highest order . |
| 26 | She thinks that she 's merely bringing him down to meet Jim and me . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The trouble is that she 's constantly demanding , day and night . ’ |
| 28 | Find out who his business contacts and friends are and what she thinks of them , assuming , of course , that she 's ever met any of them . |
| 29 | ‘ She never promised me that first time , so she 's never broken her promise to me yet . |
| 30 | She checks daily that her changing bag is filled with essential and spare clothes and leaves it permanently packed in the hall ready to pick up at a moment 's notice so she 's never caught unprepared . |