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Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [be] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I expect it 's in this pile somewhere .
2	‘ Looking at it now , I realise it was from this point that Diana began putting herself behind Relate and Aids charities .
3	I just hope she 's in this time . ’
4	cos Kenneth come up early on , he says it 's like this night he says I 'm not properly , ah right , I says I might I says were that like , I says , I says what time ?
5	The pathologist had said it was at this stage impossible to give an opinion but the report also said the police were treating the case as murder .
6	Are n't you relieved you 're in this situation with a familiar face ?
7	Er centenary seems and I know we are round this table
8	Now Sammy was a character in himself he was a bachelor and his wi his sister was Fanny the elocutionist er and , and er there the women used to , to go into old Sammy 's shop on a Friday night simply to be entertained by all the wisecracks and nonsense that used to go on in there , and somebody would say I suppose you 're off this weekend and he 'd say yes I 'm off to my little widow in Wales , he had n't got a little widow in Wales at all now but it would the start of the conversation going .
9	Ltd. v. B.O.A.C. [ 1955 ] A.C. 169 , 191 , Lord Reid stated that if the arguments are fairly evenly balanced ( not that I believe they are in this case ) , that interpretation should be chosen which involves the least alteration of the existing law .
10	I suppose it was around this period that our Investigation Department began to involve the cutters in some of their more interesting operations .
11	I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness .
12	‘ I knew she was on this wavelength , ’ Elinor said excitedly , ‘ I believed her right from the start . ’
13	I thought you were in this bit .
14	No-one knew we were on this flight , and we only had eyes for one another , frankly .
15	‘ I do n't think he 's on this wavelength , ’ she said , ‘ I had thought of having a holiday in one of the Martello towers if I do n't see him soon . ’
16	Oh I do n't think he is at this rate na , Jonathan !
17	Why do you think it was in this region , rather than in some other part of the world , that an aluminium smelter and a paper pulp mill , shown on maps K and L , were closed when world demand decreased recently ?
18	, six days a week , I mean it 's like this year I mean he 's going to be working , I 'm working as well right up to Christmas Eve , so are you , his gon na have the Christmas Day and they want him back at work on the Boxing Night .
19	Want 's a transfer , there was hundred 's of people on the list to try and get this way , I mean it 's like this women who took Jane 's house , to swop Jane , she did n't even come and look at Jane , she said yes I 'll have it
20	Think she 's off this week .
21	I still think she 's on this floor .
22	I presume you were at this morning 's ? ’
23	I think it was about this time ( I ca n't tell exactly because my diary makes no reference at any point to the practice ) that I discovered purging .
24	I think it was on this morning yeah but it 's erm
25	‘ I rang that night shelter you were at this morning and the girl I spoke to told me you were on your way .
26	No she said it 's in this week .
27	‘ How long have you been with this company ? ’
28	When she walked into the kitchen her mother looked up and said , ‘ Where on earth have you been at this hour .
29	‘ How long have you been in this field ? ’
30	It is helpful if the speaker has good articulation ( crisp consonants ) and is able to phrase sentences so that the key word or subject does not depend on a high frequency — for example , instead of saying ‘ Do you know Sussex ? ’ ( key word Sussex ) , they could say ‘ Have you been in this part of the world before ? ’