Example sentences of "[vb past] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met this Frenchman at Masstricht who kissed me on both cheeks . |
| 2 | Her philosophy of life changed when she was 17 and met this girl who was from a really weird and fucked-up background , but who was ‘ so positive ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Over the next couple of months he got his life together and he met this girl and they got engaged . |
| 4 | So I was waling through the bus station one day and I met this girl and er Ooh , she said , I 'm glad I 've seen you , she said . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I do n't know , ’ says Charles , ‘ but I met this girl in television the other evening , and she said people are going to be dropping off your Matterhorn thing like fleas off a dog . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Actually I met this girl . |
| 7 | Oh and he met this girl , they went for a weekend to Aviemore . |
| 8 | Er when Maureen met this girl and she found out she lived in Manchester common . |
| 9 | We stood there with nothing in our bags we went for my fruit and veg and er , sto there , met this couple who we know we had a right good talk to them about , it were half an hour were n't we ? |
| 10 | The industry met this threat in 1922 by appointing its own censor , Harding 's former Postmaster-General , Will Hays . |
| 11 | What is more , Celtic and German dialects received very early the Greek verb in the sense of " to graft " : it has given " enter " in French , " impfen " in German , and I like to remember that I first met this word in my childhood as a current term of Piedmontese agriculture . |
| 12 | By a coincidence I met this man on the summit of Sergeant Man in the Lake District two months later . |
| 13 | When you met this man you say you loved , surely you could have told me . " |
| 14 | I met this man and I thought he was wonderful — so nice to me and everything when I first met him . |
| 15 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 16 | Thirdly was the need for a high quality printer and the Canon page printing engine met this requirement exactly . |
| 17 | I met this bloke in August who said , ‘ I 'll only consider going out with you if you lose three stone ’ . |
| 18 | SHE MET THIS BLOKE ON HOLIDAY IN SPAIN — HER FIRST BOYFRIEND . |
| 19 | People came to us after the meeting , we met this lady and er she was really interested in our cause . |
| 20 | and you 've seen one of his craft places where I met this lady , she sort of works there or |
| 21 | ( I met this boy , he 's living on the streets , we stole a boat . ) |
| 22 | He met this challenge by manufacturing a sense of drama through his theatrical style of rule and through his ambitious policies . |
| 23 | The first time I met this creature she was an unlettered half-caste peasant who smelt of stale sweat and dead chickens . |
| 24 | We met this distinction between controlled and uncontrolled X in Section 6.1 . |
| 25 | I sa , as I say , I met this morning with the three members from Potter Street erm we do have various alternative proposals for sa ways forward should the village back out and what I can say to you at this stage is that we have another meeting scheduled for next week , we will be meeting with the Resident 's Associations keeping them fully informed erm we will ensure that the letter goes back to Mrs who and the other Resident 's Associations who expressed concern there and that we will be taking , I hope , I hope because I 'm gon na have to say if Woolwich back out we 're going out we 're going have to move very fast and do some quite erm in-depth work . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm glad we met this morning , because I was going to ring you anyway . |
| 27 | ‘ We met this morning , did n't we ? ’ |
| 28 | When they met this month , Mr Kohl made it clear that he wanted an agreement on EMU that does not oblige Britain to accept a single currency before it is ready to do so . |
| 29 | Scientists from Europe and from NASA met this month to determine whether Spacelab could operate with just one TDRS satellite . |
| 30 | Then one night I went out and I met this DJ from Taboo , which was a club at the time . |