Example sentences of "'s [adv] [vb base] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's little wonder that the naturally shy Morrissey often seeks to retreat . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | It 's little wonder that this month Patrick Eggle guitars occupy two of the top ten slots in the British guitar sales league . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's little wonder that the fax machine is so popular and that dial-up E-mail is such a rare species . |
| 6 | and things like that and it only , it 's only become and really it 's only actually set up as a business school quite recently as well , I mean what in the past ten years or something |
| 7 | Away to the west towards Memo , Lieutenant D. St. A. Dexter , supported by Turton , blocked the enemy 's eastward push that had overrun Dutch positions , but with the difficult hill country between them and Mape , they were unlikely to link up with the other columns . |
| 8 | For me it 's just feel and the longer I stay out on the range , the more damage I do ! |
| 9 | ‘ I think you 'll find it 's not hate that makes you react as you do , Shannon . |
| 10 | No it 's not sit and watch somebody else do it it wo n't hurt her |
| 11 | You go down there on your hands and knees and you report it 's not meet and then you |
| 12 | Well , Bozz at school had some free tickets the music 's usually twot when you 're given free tickets ! |
| 13 | But Dalton , who as chancellor of the exchequer naturally welcomed ideas for cuts to overseas commitments , seemed less happy with the prime minister 's further comment that the situation might look very different if the Americans acquired a big stake in Middle Eastern oil and consequently took an interest in the defence of the region . |
| 14 | The newspaper 's further claim that the police funded an Inkatha rally in January 1991 was later confirmed officially . |
| 15 | For example , if the firm 's home state and the host state go to war , bargaining with the latter is bound to be gravely affected , as British firms experienced recently in Argentina . |
| 16 | It 's like try and sit down and work out |
| 17 | See so it 's just by learning the pattern it 's like say if you were you were playing football every time somebody every time the ball came towards you you had to learn all about the way the ball goes Oh it 's you know it 's slowing down cos the grass is wet and it 's curling and things like that . |
| 18 | Down here it 's strictly hardcore and , as EPMD say , you can keep the crossover : local heroes Das EFX have , along with dancehall reggae , done much to take hip hop back underground . |
| 19 | It 's also proof that quality attracts loyalty , said a spokesman . |
| 20 | That 's without decorate and icings and what have you |
| 21 | But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it 's no go if your personality is n't worth translating . |
| 22 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |