Example sentences of "'s [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that there 's little to offer in between ; high street quality seems almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 2 | I 've got Lyn who 's due to go back for a month erm end of May for most of er June , upstairs |
| 3 | I mean the the stuff 's due to come in on Friday , he reckons it 'll get it 's the fourth on Friday is n't it ? |
| 4 | So what 's that made out of ? |
| 5 | And who 's that snuggling up to him ? |
| 6 | He spent a good deal of time in his satires , presenting himself as a satirist — unplaced , unpensioned , no man 's heir or slave he proudly describes himself as he tells us that he 's willing to lash out at even the most eminent public figures . |
| 7 | That 's if he 's willing to go up to twenty . |
| 8 | There 's quite a lot of second hand if he 's willing to travel around for them . |
| 9 | ‘ But it 's easier to hang on to your title than to win it afresh . |
| 10 | it seems to me that often , especially with this committee er start at half ten we get to about half twelve and everyone starts shuffling and think of their lunch and often not so much recently , but in , in , in , over the last five years there have been issues I think it almost left you on because it was so close to lunch , er and people did n't then want to have to break for an hour , hour and a half and then come back , whereas if you start at two fifteen erm I think it 's easier to go on till half four , five seems to be to go to this psychological one o'clock barrier , seems to er upset people greatly agitation and er their argument is th th that er that in the afternoon |
| 11 | I got virtually equal marks across arts and sciences for O levels , so making a choice at A level was difficult , but I felt a bit swayed by the fact that people said it 's best to do science subjects as far as jobs and university places go ; it 's difficult to get on to arts courses , but it 's easier to get on to science courses … that 's really why I chose science , ultimately . |
| 12 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 13 | erm By comparison in A-level grades it 's easier to get in at Sussex in Chemistry than it is in English . |
| 14 | Th the crime problem , as we 've already said is n't too , too great here but er nevertheless it 's important that we , we er keep our eyes open and try and keep crime out because some of these people that erm are living in the bigger cities that are criminals are now starting to discover that it 's easier to come out to places like Farnsfield and commit the crime , because we , we 're not experienced at it . |
| 15 | if anyone 's interested there 's another coming out on marriage , so if you want to write a poem , send it off . |
| 16 | It 's funny to look back on it now and think , ‘ What the hell was all that about ? ' ’ |
| 17 | All that 's , you see there 's , there 's a few comes at the , even at the present moment , there 's some come down from every year . |
| 18 | ‘ Whatever can he do for a living , if he 's free to ramble about in the middle of the working week in April ? |
| 19 | Yet it 's easy to cut down on fat without changing your diet completely or giving up all your favourite foods . |
| 20 | she 's easy to get on with is Eileen , probably be shattered with talking after she 'd gone , but she 's easy I mean I , there 's lots I would n't want coming to stay , but Eileen is one I do n't , I would n't mind because , well oh I know Eileen 's ways and er , er , her , my interests are very much like hers we 've similar interest with family and everything , er it 's just if you 've nothing in common with them |
| 21 | It may not seem as hard nowadays , because people know that it 's easy to get out of . |
| 22 | It 's a good , well-made , sturdy one ( a Mothercare Taxi ) , so it should last for a second child and it 's easy to fold down with one hand . |
| 23 | Being compact , it 's easy to soak up in just couple of days , making it the perfect place for a quiet weekend . |
| 24 | It 's pointless going round to places like the Drugs Council to talk about it . |
| 25 | From his discovery things had followed an inexorable path , like the water 's tight spiral down into the whirlpool 's mouth . |
| 26 | Electronics industry consultant Bob Heikes reckons he 's likely to hang on to the job , but for all the wrong reasons : ‘ Bull is hopeless , ’ he told the International Herald Tribune — ‘ a new guy is n't going to make any difference . ’ |
| 27 | That 's likely to join up with a new A-road to East Anglia . |
| 28 | If it 's a simple puncture , your tubeless repair kit may get you back on the road again , but if it 's a major rip , or any other sort of fault , the machine 's likely to end up on a trailer . |
| 29 | Victoria a thirty foot steam launch was built in 1906 … she 's likely to fetch up to 18 thousand pounds in the auction of all sorts of river craft . |
| 30 | Once you get accustomed to life on the range , it 's hard to go back to being a city slicker . |