Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incensed by such treatment , the hare scratched the Moon 's face with his claws and the two of them are disfigured to this day . |
| 2 | These simple propositions are truisms , but their importance and the dangers of departing from them are highlighted by this appeal , which we allowed on 13 March 1992 . |
| 3 | At the east end , the springmakers work , and the machines required by them are installed in this part , together with an electric welding machine and various bolt and nut machines ; boiler-makers work on the south and west sides , and the forging presses are also laid down here while the north side is mainly occupied by drop hammers . |
| 4 | These Societies were in opposition to the differentiation and autonomization model of modernity that I am using in this paper . |
| 5 | As a mother I am looking at this girl . |
| 6 | I am fortified in this view by consideration of what could result if the local authority were right . |
| 7 | If I am writing on this side of the paper I can not at the same moment be writing on the other side . |
| 8 | Another is why I am writing in this composition book . |
| 9 | Nadia : I am from the General Union of Palestinian Women and it 's good that I am participating in this meeting at this time because I am having major problems with the British Feminist Movement and the Western feminist line . |
| 10 | I should like to make it clear from the outset that I am participating in this conference not as an expert on any aspect of the teaching of languages , but rather as someone whose primary concern is with the structure of language and , more generally , the nature of cognitive processes . |
| 11 | ‘ Say , ’ he said , ‘ you 'd better tell me more precisely about what I am to wear to this ball . |
| 12 | A first time garden is usually small and certainly the typical one I am imagining for this series is no more than 40ft x 20ft and surrounded on all sides by other houses . |
| 13 | But the case is different of course in modes of language use which are non-reciprocal , of which what I am doing at this moment is an obvious example . |
| 14 | A paying consumer at least feels he or she can say , ‘ I am paying for this service . |
| 15 | For instance , when I am sitting on this chair , how do you want me to appear ? etc. , etc . ’ |
| 16 | It will be so long as I am sitting in this office . ’ |
| 17 | we know the truth ‘ I am acquainted with this sense-datum ’ . |
| 18 | I am committed to this enterprise : To climb the mountain , to cut down the cedar , and leave behind me an enduring name . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ And I am put in this ward under observation because I am suspected of having heart murmurs and also I am having surgery on my face . |
| 20 | It also indicates the very real difficulties I 'm faced with this year , because unless I get the go-ahead to cancel before the end of May , we 're stuck again with having to pay whatever the publishers demand this year . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm faced with this business of the Danish marriages , ’ the boy said without enthusiasm . |
| 22 | I 'm thinking about this thing , new what sort of representative sample , where they get the whole thing random , I think they just go and knock at doors , take out every so many names off the list |
| 23 | It 's like a speck of dust drifts down and goes into my eye and I look up to see where it came from and I 'm hit by this tonne of bricks ; it hits me that hard . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm moved by this tribute , Hugo , ’ Matthew said , laughing . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm looking for this girl . |
| 26 | Oh it 's not a case of putting the world to rights I 'm looking for this bacon |
| 27 | And if every , everybody brings a friend then you 're looking at fifty people , and I 'm not looking at fifty people , I 'm looking at this lot . |
| 28 | Yeah , travel line , and I says to her I said I 'm looking at this V F M bus timetable I says the five two , one I said it goes down ? |
| 29 | The drawing packages I 'm looking at this month have more widespread practical use than the painting packages I reviewed last month . |
| 30 | ‘ Listen , Arty , I 'm writing to this Dagg fellow . |