Example sentences of "[adj] this [noun sg] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme has been a lot better , a lot more stable this year and I think all round , the fitness in general , is going to be a lot better than it was last year . |
| 2 | I think prob problems of identification have n't really been right this time and we made a point a clear point this time with a note to people , if they were n't sure , to make comments on the books . |
| 3 | There I was , talking to people asleep this morning and I woke to the dulcet tones of talking on the radio . |
| 4 | Beryl was poorly this morning and I had to run her to the doctors . |
| 5 | ‘ And they wo n't be as strong this time because they have lost two or three players through injury . ’ |
| 6 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 7 | Now , this this material that we use technically called acetate and the nice thing about is that you can write on with if you get acetate pens so you can freehand to produce sketches , diagrams etcetera . |
| 8 | Anyway I talked to Ann about this this morning and we 've come to the decision to leave it on because that 's what we did in the in the erm |
| 9 | No , no he did n't , he did n't blow it at all no , it 's not on till four twenty this morning er three forty this morning that he blew it in , in the end . |
| 10 | Via the Blue Grotto , which may not be too crowded this morning if we get there early enough . ’ |
| 11 | What happened was the the stuff did n't come in till quarter past four , the dust extraction did n't get done till after five , so we said , Right , from six this morning till they finish it , give me bags per hour and the run . |
| 12 | I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years . |
| 13 | Erm I 've been out as on the er line three this morning and I think there 's another little bit we ought to buy but we 'll discuss that as we 're going on eh ? |
| 14 | Niggling this morning but I daresay walking round here might do it |
| 15 | Walsh warned : ‘ James has been unstoppable this season since he trimmed down in the summer from 22 stone to a mere 18 . |
| 16 | Walsh warned : ‘ James has been unstoppable this season since he trimmed down in the summer from 22 stone to a mere 18 . |
| 17 | Schaefer , who has won 17 of 20 fights since turning professional in November 1987 , said : ‘ I would n't have come all this way if I did n't think I could beat Henry . |
| 18 | I 'll pack it all this afternoon if you like . |
| 19 | No , no , that would n't worry me , I just , I said when we got rid of our other sideboard let's do without one and then I looked round and thought well what the dickens am I going to do with all this stuff that we 've got and I just found that we could n't do without it . |
| 20 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 21 | ‘ You wo n't have time for all this stuff when we get home again , what with the oven to clean and everything , ’ he persisted . |
| 22 | wherever you go wherever you go there 's gon na be all this upheaval and I mean let's face it if the Tories do n't get in this time , and pray god they do n't , Labour 's gon na completely |
| 23 | Some schools are so overburdened by all this activity that they have been forced to draft in extra staff to deal with the more mundane aspects of education — like teaching children . |
| 24 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 25 | All this space and they get to shit on a perfectly good balcony ? |
| 26 | Well he 's okay but yo we 've all had to muck in lately because of all this change and he moans and he moans and he moans and he says , outright I 'm not doing that ! |
| 27 | The Saudis want all this equipment because they feel threatened from both sides — by Iran and by Israel . |
| 28 | The Saudis want all this equipment because they feel threatened from both sides — by Iran and by Israel . |
| 29 | and all this money that he 's got , ca n't pay a man a living wage , so but it 's a decent as I say , he 's lucky to be got a job these days . |
| 30 | pounds for that griddle there 's so and so 's money and there 's the money for the flowers all in these little bags of money , been counting out all this money and they got home seven o'clock that night and he was then do n't know where he was going with me erm but they piles in the car all three of them the girls have got ta have a shower so they stayed there and er ooh I know where they was going ! |