Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 31 | And I remember to this day , though I was so small , that mother was very angry with me , for unclothing myself before the servant , who was a very nice girl who had been with us for a long time . |
| 32 | Erm , but we are n't going to the sort of , end of degree , that er , I say this , and then you sort of enter stage left and say this , and I respond like this , and then erm , something else happens , and then somebody comes crashing in through the door . |
| 33 | I managed to find an old taxi , and Rachel and I rushed to this gleaming American hospital only to find it apparently empty ! |
| 34 | T. D. I was on the beat round Stanley Hospital and I got to this point at four o'clock on the Saturday morning . |
| 35 | So she goes , I want it first thing tomorrow morning , and I mean like this is talking like , we 're talking major here ! |
| 36 | And I wish with this high seating position that the rear view mirror was n't so directly in my line of sight . |
| 37 | I went over there and I stepped into this guy 's shoes who had really a difficult fourth year class . |
| 38 | Firstly , and I return to this point which I have mentioned again and again in debates such as this and that 's the the question of the lack of there being a central agency er in existence to see to the enforcement of these matters . |
| 39 | So I said well sir I find maths really boring and I walk into this classroom and it 's all painted the same with this blackboard in front and I just find it boring , he goes yes guess who he was taught by at rugby ? |
| 40 | During our rare separations we wrote letters in her manner , whenever we could find or construct conversations to report ; and I corresponded in this way with our friend , the excellent and long unjustly neglected novelist , Barbara Pym . |
| 41 | I would need to read the whole of that alarming corpus over again before I was quite sure of it , and I apologize for this extra quarter of an hour . |
| 42 | I was thought of as rather gallant and dashing , and I played on this for a long time , emphasizing the cruelty and hardship aspects of the camp , and skating over the boredom and hunger , which were what I chiefly remembered . |
| 43 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 44 | And I said like this . |
| 45 | Time was getting short and I ran in this awful heat to the nearest Underground , waited ages for a train , and then had an interminable journey into London . |
| 46 | I 'd been out the army about three days and I went to this dance with some army mates . |
| 47 | Oh yes she did and I went like this , |
| 48 | One day I was in the library and I came across this book . |
| 49 | So what do you and I make of this theory ? |
| 50 | Erm now councillor and I asked for this matter to be brought to this chamber because erm we felt that the matter w was important enough that all members of this council should have an opportunity to debate it . |
| 51 | Well it should be in the file and I asked for this and keep it before me when a scheme is set up , A we have a map which I must have sent out letters , |
| 52 | He told Orchard , who had tickled and spanked the girl after enticing her to his flat : ‘ The prosecution accept , and I proceed on this basis , that your motive here was in no way sexual . |
| 53 | There are thousands of police officers in the 17 drugs wings who are accountable to the police authorities , and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and I come to this place to answer questions about them . |
| 54 | one night when Paul came up and I was n't asleep and I saw like this bright light |
| 55 | Mm , that 's right , and I say to this one be on your way and he 's on his way and to another come and he comes and to my slave dither and he does it . |
| 56 | Y y you 'll see at the bottom of the agenda that er John and I talked about this the other night , er and there are |
| 57 | Terry and I talked round this subject for |
| 58 | It matters a great deal , and I want in this chapter to sketch out some of the implications of this inviolable link which the New Testament writers make between Jesus and the Spirit . |
| 59 | John and I rebelled at this kind of regimentation but Andrew and Ernest just smiled and said nothing . |
| 60 | That 's the right approach and I suggest to this Committee that if you take the Liberal Democrat Conservative resolution that will be not a bad . |