Example sentences of "this [noun] that [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so but I wanted to point out two or three things on this contract that if you do n't tell them on the phone about them before you get round there they they 'll use it |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ But I 've got this attitude that if you 're going to show guitarists off in their best light , you do n't just put them on stage and let them weedle around all night . |
| 4 | I 've got an interesting point that I relate about this job that when I went to see them , about starting this job , they said , Well , they never told me before I got in , they said er , We 've er we 've got no money so we ca n't pay you a very good wage , but er we 'll start you off with five pound a week , that 's all we can afford , well I was earning more than that , during the War , nineteen forty two . |
| 5 | It 's worth also noting at this point that if you are a tenant and renting and you lose your job you are eligible for housing benefit , erm if you if you were er buying your house , although you do get some er er you get the interest I believe on your mortgage paid , there are lots of other things that do not get paid but the thing is that if you have a reduction in your income which might happen where one partner say lost a job , er you s you 're eligible for housing benefit but you get nothing as far as company paid mortgage is concerned . |
| 6 | So so there I will always remind you Peter says , I will always remind you of this things that if you buy up the time |
| 7 | My friends , let's just remember this night that as we 've shared bread and wine together , we 've reaffirmed that Jesus Christ gave his life so that we might live . |
| 8 | I read in the paper this morning that if you smoke you 're less likely to develop Alzheimer 's disease than if you do n't . |
| 9 | The last couple of months it 's been dragging : you feel ‘ I wish I could talk to somebody ’ … not knowing anybody else you tend to get this feeling that unless you go out and talk to someone you 'll go stark raving mad … |
| 10 | The last couple of months it 's been dragging : you feel ‘ I wish I could talk to somebody ’ … not knowing anybody else you tend to get this feeling that unless you go out and talk to someone you 'll go stark raving mad . |
| 11 | This really pisses her off : ‘ There is this bias that if it is about vampires it has to be junk — well it is absolutely not true . ’ |
| 12 | Can I just say on this subject that while I understand the arguments on both sides of the fence , remember that for every successful composer there are hundreds who are not , and their cause is not helped by someone taping their album for a friend . |
| 13 | We English have an important advantage over foreigners in this respect and it is for this reason that when you think of a great butler , he is bound , almost by definition , to be an Englishman . |
| 14 | Charlie was so stunned by this suggestion that although he stopped pacing he made no attempt to reply . |
| 15 | He said this summer that as he gradually wound down his involvement in sport , Henley would be the last thing he would give up . |
| 16 | And we 're back to this thing that if you 're not interested in what you 've written , why do you think anybody else ought to be ? |
| 17 | She had this thing that if it had been a Nigerian boy , the mother would be here saying " I 'm sorry my son has got your daughter pregnant . |
| 18 | I said to Russell I 'll go upstairs and have a look at the bedrooms and I 've got this thing that if it 's a nice house I 'd go and have a look at the bedrooms , he said well why ? |
| 19 | ‘ We still have this idea that if we do something morally wrong , or what They said was wrong , there 'll be some kind of Divine Retribution , ’ said William . |
| 20 | if , if , if he says I 've done it in class and I do n't want to finish it off at home , that 's fair enough , but what 's gon na happen when he gets to secondary level and he 's got this idea that if he does n't finish it in class , that 's it , he does n't do it , he wo n't finish learning the topic |
| 21 | There is this idea that if you send the works of art abroad , either you put them in danger , or you 're selling your art cheaply , even though its only lending . |
| 22 | Now a lot of people when that was first mentioned said ‘ I do n't need that , it 's all right you can look at them if you want to ’ , but afterwards , half-way through their course , they wanted to know that they were theirs and other people would n't see them and have this reassurance that if they wanted to watch it and then wipe it blank , or if they wanted to wipe it blank without ever having seen it themselves , they could do that and no-one was going to ask ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . |
| 23 | The point about the shop is that erm it sells things on a medieval theme and more specifically it has we have this undertaking that if you see it in the house , you can buy it in the shop . |
| 24 | It was accepted at this time that if you had talent you could sponge and exploit , as Colquhoun and MacBryde did when they abused Elizabeth Smart 's hospitality at Tilty Mill , a house belonging to Ruthven Todd and where they created havoc . |
| 25 | People also seem to get this impression that if you 're released from prison the first thing you want is sex . |
| 26 | ‘ Anyway Muhammad said to this chap that when you go to the toilet you should n't wipe your bum with your right hand . ’ |