Example sentences of "i [vb base] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Opposition replied , ’ That was 10 years ago ’ , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , whom I commend for this observation , said , that 10 years was a very long time for the Leader of the Opposition and 10 minutes was about the average length of every policy that he had put forward . |
| 2 | It follows that I award for this period of care by the plaintiff 's parents the sum of fifteen thousand pounds which equates to an award of three pounds hourly for five thousand hours . |
| 3 | Again , I repeat with this problem of unemployment and so on , and the really obscene level of unemployment in this country at the moment — absolutely shocking I think — and I think the universities have to address themselves to that problem . |
| 4 | I mean for this market research one , we ought to finish this tonight because if she comes tomorrow |
| 5 | I mean with this exhibition that we 've booked ‘ Just the Job ’ , which is black women erm and the kind of jobs that they 've got , a large percentage are carers and erm and it is the thing that erm women feel that they can do and it erm in a way that it comes out of their role in the home , the caring role , and erm and it 's a role that they get sort of erm trapped into and it does n't pay very much money , as Brenda was saying earlier . |
| 6 | Well we were n't anyway there was very few pe , I mean at this time of the year I suppose but there was one place and it said Sunday lunch , there was a sort of black board outside , Sunday lunch erm four pound was it four fifty it was four fifty was n't it ? |
| 7 | Well this is about , I mean at this point it 's about one o'clock in the morning . |
| 8 | And yo and your er see what I mean about this area up here , I mean it 's not a bad thingy . |
| 9 | I mean by this attitudes of wonder , reverence and awe , as we contemplate the beauty of the universe and note the fragility of its life-systems . |
| 10 | Because that 's really erm a part of what I mean by this criterion . |
| 11 | And er the diesel pumps were n't on and er there was a couple of guys putting on breathing apparatus and trying to get in to restart them , but I mean by this stage the smoke was so thick they could n't even find where the pumps were . |
| 12 | Well , not really but they have been disillusioned over the years they 've promised so much and then they 've never seemed seemed to get anywhere but I think , I honestly think they would , people would get behind them , if they could see they were going somewhere I mean like this season they seem to have fallen away yet again . |
| 13 | I sit on this platform fifteen minutes waiting for a train . |
| 14 | As I sit at this word processor , the chips of which may have been assembled by a young woman in the Philippines for a pittance a day and for such long hours that her eyes will be damaged in a tax haven created specially for foreign companies , I am acutely aware of the link between the health of the people of the Philippines and my life here in Britain . |
| 15 | My ambition at the moment is to make sure I qualify for this year 's Open Championship . ’ |
| 16 | Although I concentrate in this chapter on sexual difference and on cultural and racial differences in the last chapter , it is worth remembering that in some contexts they interrelate . |
| 17 | So what do you and I make of this theory ? |
| 18 | Many of the points that I make in this speech have already been covered by John , but they are important and deserve to be repeated . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're the only one I trust in this outfit . |
| 20 | That is £14 million more than previously planned , reflecting the importance that I attach to this policy . |
| 21 | My Lords , before the Noble Lord sits down , perhaps I could ask him to remember , he was saying s how , how splendidly the Lord Chancellor and the Chancellor of the Duchy appointed magistrates and I entirely agree , but they appoint them , not from a list that they 've constructed themselves , they appoint them because the keepers of the roles for respective counties propose names to them which they very carefully er selected by the very special and an an and complicated process of of er of er of of examination of people whose names come forward , I find in my case that only one-third of the people whom I interview for this purpose with my Committee er are the ones which I 've I propose . |
| 22 | Well but I mean that 's an example and as I say at this end where you 've no arousal you 're either asleep or dead , there 's no sort of performance performance of any sort and we talk about having those butterflies in the stomach do n't we ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Right , Piper , we 'll forget the bloody left , right , left , right , routine , ’ snarls the Sergeant , ‘ When I knock on this door and you hear someone say ‘ come in' ’ , you go in , turn right , and salute . |
| 25 | I apologise for this error . |
| 26 | ‘ I apologise for this mess , ’ said Dotty . |
| 27 | ‘ The album itself is everything I want at this stage … but y'know you just ca n't predict how people will take it . ’ |
| 28 | All her own passion had died out of her : she felt deflated ; she had the desire to laugh , and she almost did as she said , ‘ Yes , I know what I want at this moment and that 's something to eat and then to get downstairs again , because , you know , it 's Father 's night for the club . ’ |
| 29 | This requires answering a basic check question : What is the single most important result that I want from this presentation ? |
| 30 | If we look at a relationship or any type of commu mean taking a bit of a different look at things thinking well what is it that this person wants from me and what is it that I want from this person ? |