Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] be [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 I mean , I do the same thing , I get home at night and I 'm like this !
2 And er of course as I tell you , I finished when I was thirteen years old and I was on this er bottle washing stunt and o one chap as lived next door to us , back at er at Road he got me his this job on the farm .
3 and I was like this driving along the road .
4 I dyed my hair every colour under the sun , and I was in this all-women band , we wore lots and lots of make-up and these really baggy dresses in wild colours , which covered our whole bodies — we all dressed the same .
5 she gets out of bed and she 's like this
6 We can not know — and she was by this time fifty-eight years old to Jack 's thirty-three — whether she felt personally slighted by the change .
7 We 're commissioning the talent of the whole organization to achieve business success , ’ says Jim Whiston , ‘ and we 're in this for the long-term results . ’
8 I mean I it 's different if I was like you know if the summer holidays and we were like this erm thing like erm a magic show that was on quite late or something .
9 You know , and they 're in this sort of
10 Clover Roope , who later became a dancer , remembers going there to take lessons from a governess she shared with John 's stepsisters , and described how absolutely devoted she and they were to this young man with ‘ a fantastic nose and fantastic eyes and this rather long , lanky figure , who was not really a dancer and not really yet a choreographer , but gave the sense already that here was somebody important . ’
11 And they were in this grotty council house now and they go back and they said and you saw them going back and saying look at the state of the garden .
12 Well it , it shows come on I 'm gon na hit the brake , he 's got a chuffing accelerator pedal , a clutch and a bloody brake pedal there and he 's banging like this and it 's brake 's not working prop it 's , it 's funny , but there was a bloody tent there as well er where the Charlie Sheen is like an indian , and he 's in this tent and this bloke calls to thingybob and he presses this bloody doorbell on it on this tent , it 's funny , I tell you it is funny when you wa er when you actually watch it .
13 Sir Michael Clapham himself retired as Chairman at the end of 1977 having served on the Council from its beginning in 1964 ( and he was at this point the only remaining member from the original Council ) , and been its Chairman for seven years .
14 And he was in this mood when disaster struck .
15 he and he were like this in the water I had to go down the bank I grabbed hold of him in the middle of his back , just turfed him out .
16 it 's called Father of the Bride and it 's about this wedding kind of thing
17 It 's a two part mystery and it was on last week and it 's on this week .
18 Tilson , who 's married and used to be a school cleaner , has n't been seen since the attack 3 weeks ago , and it 's for this reason , police have taken the unsual step of naming him as a suspect .
19 And it 's for this reason , I think , that people quite properly are interested in Darwin 's theory of evolution , are worried about it and so on .
20 But the main focus has been networked distributed computing , which does n't provide the same levels of performance or fault-resilience — and it 's in this aspect that the Sequent customers are most interested .
21 Er in my opinion at this particular time we must bear in mind the financial constraints that we work under and er would the board agree with me that erm survival comes first yes but it 's obvious that the programme that we 've er had put forward is a good compromise between preferred in the arts , maintaining the theatre as a viable proposition and er entertaining the people of this particular part of the world because as I understand it this theatre was not just the artist also an entertainment centre and it 's in this area that er it 's quite obvious when you look into the figures on this area the popular area that the majority income comes so you 'll have to make a compromise and I will congratulate the board on what I think is pretty reasonable compromise so it 's quite obvious in the programme .
22 I 've got my life to live and it 's in this house , and I say again , you left me a legacy and I 've got to manage the best way I can .
23 I want to try and get one before May before the exam , but there is a superb production on i the summer , it 's on June and July and it 's at an open-air theatre erm in Lincolnshire and what people do is they go and take a picnic and you sort of take your rug and sit there and cos it it 'll be hot in the summer it would be really nice and you watch it outdoors and it 's in this big stately home which is in it 's own grounds and there 's gift shops and restaurants and bars and obviously wo n't go in the bars but you know there 's lo it 's beautiful and like a big stately home you can wander round the gardens for a bit and then go and watch the performance and if it rains then there 's a canopy you can pull the canopy over like at Wimbledon and you know it 's a really nice day .
24 It 's like , got scrapings out of it and everything and and it 's in this little lovely container or something down my neck !
25 And , even more importantly , the Formalists differ radically from the Anglo-Americans on the way in which they relate poetic ambiguity to ordinary language , and it is through this differential function , and not by means of mere conformity and intensification that poetry heightens and enriches ordinary communication .
26 Secondary school is , after all , nearer to life after school , and it is about this that schools are increasingly urged to think .
27 There is always a point at which the limitation of science , albeit forever progressing , introduces the need to make an unproved assumption about the mystery of life , and it is at this point that a religion becomes a necessity and must take over .
28 And it is at this point that we can see the way in which secularisation feeds and nurtures the philosophies of secularism .
29 In Vietnam the loss of a small intelligence network to the Japanese had made it essential for operational purposes that it should be replaced and it is at this point that Ho Chi Minh and the American OSS found each other .
30 It was safer to hire soldiers as well and it is at this time that we first come across the name Mercadier , a name that from now on was to be closely linked with Richard 's .
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