Example sentences of "this [noun] [conj] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am slightly embarrassed by this story but I fear it should be told . |
| 2 | I c I , I tell this story cos I think it illustrates it very much , I expect most of you have er if you have n't been you 've heard of Dale in Derbyshire , and it 's this river with a , a lovely walk either side of the river , you walk along the side and then you come to the point where there 's a bend in the river and there 's these gorgeous great enormous stepping stones . |
| 3 | ‘ If you mean because it 's your day off , there are no days off during this case unless I decide I can spare you . ’ |
| 4 | so er that 's old is it Shepherd and Metzler No it 's not in this case but I think they invented the task , yes they did good old Shepherd and Metzler |
| 5 | I no more say who I am in this case than I say I 'm off to my wife 's right in the lost-in-cloud case . |
| 6 | Okay Noel thank you for your er your time and being a good sport this afternoon and I hear you have a little one you had better go back and sort things out . |
| 7 | He arrived this afternoon and I sent him off to rest . |
| 8 | I told my friends I was going to the dentist this afternoon because I knew they 'd be jealous if they knew I 'd seen Home Alone 2 before anyone else . |
| 9 | Well run councils will flourish as a result of this settlement and I offer them every encouragement to do so . |
| 10 | Customer 5 : ‘ What happens if my daughter does n't like this jumper when I get it home ? ’ |
| 11 | I persuaded her to come on this course because I thought it would be a change for us both . ’ |
| 12 | There are many good makes of boots in this category though I think I would opt for a pair of Scarpa boots because they will accept the wonderful Yeti gaiters ( £50 ) and are excellent in their own right . |
| 13 | I did n't appreciate this freedom until I lost it . |
| 14 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 15 | A bite now is hardly ever missed and I am confident of landing even big fish on this gear if I take my time about it . |
| 16 | ‘ I realise you love this car and I know you 're tired , ’ she said , determinedly hauling him out , ‘ but I 'd be grateful if you could save this until we 're in the house and in the dry . ’ |
| 17 | Oh and I happened to be standing in the back kitchen you know and I got hold of this saucepan and I picked my little brother up and put him under my arm in case he got hurt and I oh I belted my father from his head to his feet with the saucepan . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going to produce this movie and I want you to direct it . ’ |
| 19 | On the other hand , it was on this condition that I joined your company : you agreed that should your business ever go public , I would have fifteen per cent of the equity for the nominal sum of fifteen thousand pounds . |
| 20 | My fish is quite tame and I hand feed him , although as he ( or she ) gets larger I will stop this practice as I value my fingers . |
| 21 | So could you phone up er your office because I cleared the fact that we can pay with this card cos I thought you might look at this and say well look it 's expired . |
| 22 | The last but one day of this programme and I hope you are feeling good . |
| 23 | One very quick point , sorry erm I do n't want to sound as if I feel I can but er I welcome your comment at the beginning the condition be be left out on what 's going on because I thought this was actually the key function of this committee and I mean I see these are being decision has been taken . |
| 24 | What we want to do in this session as I said it will only take about twenty minutes , there are three key things we want to do . |
| 25 | ‘ In this hut when I ask something , it is answered , ’ he hissed . |
| 26 | I I asked the er the minister earlier about this question and I appreciate his difficulties being a home office minister rather than a foreign office minister and I quite understand his reluctance to er stray too far from his departmental portfolio but the reality is that the British government agreed that the European parliament should continue to meet in Strasbourg but we 've heard nothing from the minister as to where the money should come from er in order to make that commitment a reality because I 'm sure that every member opposite would say that the uncertainty about the present boundaries is not the er responsibility of the British government , that it 's a matter for the French government to sort out which boundaries er will be in place in the United Kingdom by June the ninth , the date of the European elections , but the reality is that the British government have gone along with the arrangement for having Strasbourg recognised as a er seat for the European parliament . |
| 27 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 28 | I will not pursue this issue until I hear what , if anything , the branch wishes to do . |
| 29 | It was at this moment that I decided I must learn to dance , so that I could stay on at the pensione instead of roaming about . |
| 30 | I wanted to let you know of this initiative because I thought it might be possible to : |