Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I went through this process and I started to read my thoughts generally , not to be too much one way or the other . |
| 2 | So I went towards this soil and there was father in the bottom of a grave . |
| 3 | I said So I said to this Richard , I said excuse me I said but your phone 's not working downstairs I said have you got one upstairs ? |
| 4 | I thought well after ten years , I thought , well I want I still want to get on and erm so I heard of this job down at Cambridge Station as Assistant Manageress at the Refreshment Rooms , you see , and er it was n't quite the same because er at Ipswich , you see , although the Catering Manager 's office er my work was office work and typing you know general thing and er because he was away most of the day , most days , because of er er the ten stations er from stretching as I say from Chelmsford , Witham , Marks Tey , Colchester and er I think it was Clacton and er and Manningtree and er I think , I do n't know Manningtree and Ipswich of course and er then er Bury St Edmunds and , and that 's it and I am not sure whether you went to Newmarket or whether to Ca whether to Cambridge now Newmarket but er , you see , so the days went on and we worked every other Sunday and of course I know things were a lot cheaper then but you see the pay was n't , was n't very good . |
| 5 | So I got aboard this cab , and the guy said , Buddy where do you want to go to ? |
| 6 | So I looked through this device and er found what the reading it gave , so I went to my map and I found that that 's where Mars should have been . |
| 7 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 8 | So I sat on this stool thing and Marie pulled the curtain and the light flashed twice and then Marie leaps in and sits on my lap , and it flashes again . |
| 9 | So we sat on this row and it was Paul and his young lady and David all in the row with us . |
| 10 | So he came along this morning and picked it up ! |
| 11 | Of course they 're all putting their hands up by me see , and Da , I thought David would clock , and he never said a word , I thought he ai n't sussed it , anyway they went on this night out and the girls kept saying , Debbie saying oh Lynn just come , I said I ai n't got no intentions of coming , I said David 's going amongst all the others I 'm not going , so Debbie said why , I said why because David is nothing but a wanker , a lot , along , a lot of the others , she said , she nearly fell off the chair , gordon bennett she said I never thought you , I never realised you felt like that , I said Debbie if you knew half of what I thought you would fall off that chair |
| 12 | so , erm , last night when we came home I looked at this Argos ticket which I could n't find and I 've , in that I 've found what erm a Weight Watcher er menu , so I picked that out , so I 've had erm do n't know what you 'll call it today , boiled egg and toast , eh bread and butter |
| 13 | But once I got into this set of gay men , it took over my social life almost completely . |
| 14 | I made few friends , but once I adapted to this life I do not think I was particularly unhappy . |
| 15 | Now he called at this house and said that he was er visiting for |
| 16 | Fand whispered , ‘ Long ago I drank from this pool . |
| 17 | Surely you paused at this roadside oasis |
| 18 | For weeks the newspapers had been full of stories about it , with , over and over again , people describing how well they lived in this country , how much they loved their homeland , how they did everything to strengthen East German socialism — as if there were not several thousand people leaving the country in a panic at the time . |
| 19 | Why were n't they exchanged in this case ? |
| 20 | Lisa could n't figure out quite how she felt about this development . |
| 21 | Leonora thanked him quietly , not quite sure how she felt about this idea . |
| 22 | Then you came into this library to look at the books , spending perhaps twenty minutes here . |
| 23 | And then she hid inside this cow ! |
| 24 | How you got into this work . |
| 25 | ‘ I know naught of how you came into this plight , girl , and I care little enough , but this I know — you have broken the spell-wall and opened Andernesse to the powers of the dark ! |
| 26 | He showed me some really nice places , and then we went to this park , I ca n't remember what the park 's called . |
| 27 | and then erm , we drove , er then we walked through this park , which was lovely , it had squirrels running all round the place and pigeons and everything , it was gorgeous , and , and because it , it 'd been such a gorgeous day , it 's just that my fucking nose is cold . |
| 28 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 29 | Would you mind telling us , Mr Major , how we got into this mess and how we 're going to get out of it ? |
| 30 | Again we must delve back in history to understand how we got to this position . |