Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [coord] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had this trick and he had a blow torch and he burned off all this blokes hair . |
| 2 | and he he saw this dike this dike and he went straight in , he |
| 3 | The Roman barn projected into this field and we needed to complete the plan and to follow the wall of the south range . |
| 4 | I went into this field and I sat there and cried for hours in this pouring rain and I suddenly thought to myself , ‘ This is ridiculous , this is no good — you 're not meant to be an actor , you 're meant to be something else — a comedian . ’ |
| 5 | No but it I mean it 's just been so long , it I I said to him , can I do this trial and he said , and i explained everything about it and he said , yes try it . |
| 6 | It 's been a bit sort of muggy this afternoon but we went out in the garden and we sort of just pottled around you know ? |
| 7 | As a matter of fact , I was talking to him briefly this afternoon and we agreed we 'd have a chat some time . |
| 8 | But Lindner said yesterday : ‘ I talked to Doug Laughton this afternoon and he told me a two-year contract was in the mail and everything was fine . ’ |
| 9 | She confronted me with it this afternoon and she had all the details — even the name of the pub where the meeting was held . " |
| 10 | ‘ A couple of interviews this morning , and I met Penny Seu Chen this afternoon and she showed me round our building , studios and offices , and we rearranged a few things in mine . |
| 11 | He arrived this afternoon and I sent him off to rest . |
| 12 | Had it in the bedroom when I was a kip this afternoon and I switched the battery off , so it does n't work very well with the battery off ! |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | The model of responsible party government was born of this experience and it tended to elevate the politics of the moment into a law of nature that has distracted attention from the more fluid aspects of Britain 's political experience . |
| 15 | and he 'd remembered this spiel and he 'd got it word perfect and he 's reeling it off as his one objection |
| 16 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 17 | One day I was out working the streets , I went with this punter and I went back to his place . |
| 18 | Oh and I happened to be standing in the back kitchen you know and I got hold of this saucepan and I picked my little brother up and put him under my arm in case he got hurt and I oh I belted my father from his head to his feet with the saucepan . |
| 19 | One kid in my neighbourhood , a Blood , came up to me after seeing this movie and he said , ‘ I 'm gon na go home and tell my mother she better not call me a motherfucker anymore . ’ |
| 20 | Well as I say I went for this interview and she phoned me last Sunday did n't she ? |
| 21 | There was no advance planning to reach this figure and I decided at the beginning that I would not cut corners in an effort to keep within the budget . |
| 22 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
| 23 | I tried again , saying we were trying to decide how many of us could get to this wedding and we wanted to look smart , but the only response was that he did n't want to hear anything about weddings , thank you . |
| 24 | So er there was this poor girl sitting on this seat and I 'd seen her there and so , there was a nice lady sat they said er they took the Redditch train off the thing and put this Shrewsbury on . |
| 25 | I was looking for the Mr because I remembered I said I would be here in this session and I 'd forgotten . |
| 26 | He looked down at her steadily and Maggie tried to stay cool , but she was losing this battle and she knew it . |
| 27 | I could hear this burglar and she said have you closed the front door ? |
| 28 | I did n't know she had this cold and she 'd had it for ten |
| 29 | ‘ I asked him how he had been chosen for this honour and he told me ‘ I was pushed ’ ’ . |
| 30 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |