Example sentences of "[vb past] this [noun sg] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Over the next couple of months he got his life together and he met this girl and they got engaged . |
| 2 | Er when Maureen met this girl and she found out she lived in Manchester common . |
| 3 | I met this man and I thought he was wonderful — so nice to me and everything when I first met him . |
| 4 | The government announced this week that it planned to send 53 Japanese soldiers there next month , to help prepare for UN-sponsored elections . |
| 5 | One of America 's largest defense contractors made this discovery when it asked what information its top corporate and operating managers needed to do their jobs . |
| 6 | and then when I got this sheet when I joined choir went , Oh yeah I remember |
| 7 | I got this notion that I 'd some terrible disease – as if the Con was n't terrible enough – and everybody would catch it off me . |
| 8 | They retained this patch when they left the Division in Tunisia . |
| 9 | The LPU entered this process as it believed a trade union would . |
| 10 | So what I did is I writ thirty plus thirty four , adding up to sixty four and she jumped up and she 's grabbing thing off table and she had hold of the screwdriver and I says to Linda thought she was gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were n't , she were looking for a pencil so she could rub it out , well she could n't and she found this pencil and she scribbled thirty four out . |
| 11 | Interviews with other staff reinforced this impression and it seemed that in many departments the self-appraisal did not receive much considered attention . |
| 12 | The F2 progeny complicated this picture and it appears as though the genes responsible for orange colour in Alaska are different from those producing a similar phenotype on Vancouver Island . |
| 13 | Leonor Fini underlined this concern when she painted her friend Leonora Carrington in a breastplate and sensible skirt , not a fetish object but a woman warrior and a ‘ true revolutionary ’ , released from cliches of femininity . |
| 14 | She phoned this morning and I said I ca n't come and collect it cos I 'm here by myself she said oh I 'll bring it in , that 's alright , no problem but er we 're going away to Gloucester at two o'clock |
| 15 | I never reported this story because I did n't believe it . |
| 16 | And I used this line but it did n't sound so effective because I was sitting on a bicycle . |
| 17 | But that actually occurred this week and I think we 're gon na see more of that . |
| 18 | The ancestors of the famous American writer John dos Passos emigrated from here , and he visited this village when he came to the island in the 1950s . |
| 19 | May I extend the grateful thanks of Mr. and Mrs. Emery of Eye in my constituency , whom I visited this morning and who have just had their home insulated under the Government 's home energy efficiency scheme ? |
| 20 | I had an idea that if I dropped this diaper when we unloaded our bombs , it might help some mother . |
| 21 | He had often told her that it was a social disadvantage having the sort of wife he could n't take anywhere , but he dropped this line when she started appearing beside him at literary lunches and old school do 's . |
| 22 | The United States Senate rejected this provision because it thought it would bestow legal rights upon third parties . |
| 23 | The Board rejected this view as it considers that only shareholders are owners of a company and hence the issue of warrants which are not subsequently exercised represents a gain . |
| 24 | In Capital , Volume 3 Marx noted this trend when he argued that the increasing size of enterprises made it impossible for them to be run by a single person . |
| 25 | other day and I told this lady and she goes , who the hell are you ? |
| 26 | The TUC ignored this assumption when it denied that the marriage bar was a sex issue , insisting that it was an employment question , caused entirely by the pressures arising from male unemployment . |
| 27 | I came this morning because I think you may be able to help me from your knowledge-of the family and of the area . |
| 28 | It silenced Maggie most of all because she had assumed that Felipe guarded this secret and she had never mentioned it to Mitch . |
| 29 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 30 | He arrived this afternoon and I sent him off to rest . |