Example sentences of "this be [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Jane , this is Jane to me the other day , throw your kitten off my floor and see if it lands on its feet . |
| 2 | This is part of it . |
| 3 | In the case of Alan Charlton , he has these six very fine grey panels , by very fine I just mean they are handsomely proportioned , they are very carefully coloured to a very precise , not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on , but the way they 're shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition , and this is part of it 's stupidity , is , well I got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud , very elaborate , very expressionist , a vast canvass by a very good painter by Mutter . |
| 4 | This is book to me — of which the clubhouse is built and which the early settlers favoured in their pursuit of the substantial . |
| 5 | Mrs C writes that ballet dancers ‘ box their stomachs and rears with their hands before dancing ’ — this is news to me . |
| 6 | This is news to me ; the widespread cattle mutilations across the American midwest in the past two decades are variously blamed on cultists , aliens or government experimentation , but , as far as I am aware , no actual proof has ever been found to back up any one of these hypotheses . |
| 7 | This was part of it : |
| 8 | In summer this was heaven for us because it sometimes took hours to put things right and we would miss a large chunk of lessons . |
| 9 | I must say that all this was news to me , but then Nigel never voluntarily discussed his work at home . |
| 10 | This was news to me . |
| 11 | This was news to me , although I knew Graham Fearnley , who was Jack Mason 's agent and looked after quite a big stable of European golfers . |
| 12 | ‘ Trying to trip me up ? ’ queried Leith , giving no inkling that this was news to her . |