Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [verb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ?
2 ‘ I do n't know why I ever agreed to have this car .
3 After all these years I still enjoyed playing this game .
4 I thoroughly enjoyed playing this game and , I like the idea of making my own game worlds with the ZZT Editor and controlling the objects using the built in ZZT-OOP programming language .
5 And it 's too late to put together the story I really wanted to do this week .
6 It was not the fault of Annie Besant 's biographer that I often longed to put this book down .
7 I never thought to see this day , ’ he murmured , as he rose to his feet and gently pulled her up to him .
8 I said knew about it , erm , you must have known about it , erm , that standard edition of the complete psychological works of Freud , that 's its title , and you 're one of the editors , one of the editors , I said , there 's no evidence that you ever intended to include this book in it , even though , you know , I understand that it could n't be published as long as Woodrow Wilson 's family was still alive , but erm , you know , why was n't it published in the standard edition ?
9 ‘ But if you really had discovered this way of changing people , why did you stop ? ’
10 Ladies and gentlemen erm about three years ago we finally decided to restore this car that you see behind us and although it was er an impossible task at times we , we carried on regardless and I hope that you 'll agree that everything you see today , plus the fact that seeing everybody out here , I think we , you 'll agree we made the right decision and er we feel that as long as this car is in this position that nobody 'll erm have any doubts who the Three- Ninetieth Group were and er , I think er , I think we 're all proud of this day particularly .
11 We recently had to face this problem in my own county when we embarked on a capital programme to computerise the library service .
12 We therefore decided to analyse this element in greater detail .
13 We therefore decided to include this model as a positive control in this study .
14 They then sought to recover this sum and costs from Mr. Mahmoud under the covenant for indemnity contained in the assignment of 8 January 1986 .
15 If he really wanted to keep this room a secret , having no window onto the outside would be the best way , surely ? ’
16 He really did love this land .
17 He then sought to reconcile this proposition with the fact that the defendants were also agents for Mr. Brant and it was in the course of that agency , not whilst acting as agents for the plaintiff , that the defendants had learned that Mr. Perot was interested in buying Vertigo .
18 The next question was why had he gone to so much trouble and expense if he never intended to use this place as his base ?
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