Example sentences of "'s [adv] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Butyl liners can be repaired successfully with a patch and special adhesive ( it 's rather like repairing a puncture in a cycle inner-tube ) . |
| 2 | But the name of Powell is invoked to give legitimacy to the event ; it 's rather like getting the priest to bless your car . |
| 3 | It 's rather like knowing your mother is always the same , ’ she told reporters . |
| 4 | That 's rather like having a King Lear spiritually emoting with an insight which may transcend any previous realisation , whilst unfortunately playing havoc with the syntax , changing and/or forgetting words , and mumbling so that certain words inaudible to the unaware onlooker can be understood only by the expert who knows the text ! |
| 5 | It 's rather like deciding where to hang a picture on a blank wall . |
| 6 | Most sufferers overcome food allergies by their 3rd birthday … and it 's only since turning 4 that doctors have acknowledged that Gemma has a serious problem . |
| 7 | Can I close by thanking Rod our Chief Racing Coach for what I thought was a very excellent presentation of the R Y A Ye Year of Youth Sailing and I have great pleasure in launching that initiative for ts er this year 's Earls Court Boat Show again it seems horribly self evident that it 's only through increasing the involvement of the young that we assure thriving clubs and associations and classes for the future but nobody up here is going to say that it 's easy and I believe though that the work that the official , the officers and the R Y A put together will make it easier than it once was and I hope that the literature that they have put together and the programme that they have put together will be a help to all of you so please make use of it . |
| 8 | The only problem is it 's only worth buying if you 're buying a reasonable sized piece . |
| 9 | It 's only worth using MPs to have a go at the government , and then you spoon-feed it to them . ’ |
| 10 | If it 's a ten p bit of influence , it 's only worth spending a couple of pence on it . |
| 11 | I think she looks nice really , because she does look very young , she 's only about turned sixteen , is n't she ? |
| 12 | He 's only off looking for Rebel . |
| 13 | I says it 's only for to keep your name right . |
| 14 | As I said , mine 's only on ringing with an external call , is n't it . |
| 15 | It 's only by ignoring them that they make a real effort to survive . |
| 16 | It 's perhaps worth pointing out that for some inexplicable reason , BMG has decided not to provide individual tracks for each of the movements which is something of a disadvantage in a work like the Webern . |
| 17 | it 's following on from what Geoff was saying er and I think it 's perhaps worth mentioning something about coastal zone management and estuary management . |
| 18 | Yes I think it 's perhaps worth making the point erm to Rosemary that although , as you say , i it 's six feet high , that it does n't spread all that wide and it 's , it 's a mistake in a small garden to think that you ca n't have things that are on the tall side . |
| 19 | that wo n't that 's obviously of won |
| 20 | ‘ And like most businesses , it 's basically about selling . |
| 21 | That 's basically for editing purposes , so that , if the editor , he likes the general tenor of what you 've said but he perhaps wants to , he wants to chop a little bit out or he wants to put that sentence up there , he 's got somewhere that he can actually , he can actually do his editing . |
| 22 | I do n't think it 's necessarily about teaching er children primarily about sex or about sexual pleasure , I think it 's all , initially , about personal hygiene and then developing that into how they can make their life safer for themself , or giving them choices to say , well I can choose to become pregnant or not to become pregnant and , I think it 's more about choices rather than saying orgasms and erm sexual pleasure , or |
| 23 | It 's kinda like jumping your body around the bike and countersteering — you go right if you flick the bars left , and you go left if you flick the bars right . ’ |
| 24 | He 's inside for having slit a man 's throat . |
| 25 | A door viewer is useful as well , you can see who 's outside without opening the door . |
| 26 | I do n't know how much machine time they would need on a daily basis , but if it 's just for updating files , I ca n't imagine it being very extensive . |
| 27 | I think there 's a third fact that you touched on earlier that I think it 's just worth mentioning and that is that we know it 's also a genetic pre-disposition to anorexia nervosa , in other words , we know that in certain families it is a disorder that will run from one generation to another . |
| 28 | Er I think it 's just worth mentioning again that it 's still on and er I , I think er it is really more important than ever now for us to impress on Chris what good work we do because er of the changing situation within the industry . |
| 29 | But it 's just worth bearing in mind that erm , as long as the senior people are quite comfortable they can get through to , to us if they need to , that they 're not bound by the normal fax routine or whatever . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's just like getting the old family snapshots out , he says . |