Example sentences of "this [noun] [conj] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He arrived this afternoon and I sent him off to rest . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I persuaded her to come on this course because I thought it would be a change for us both . ’ |
| 4 | I did n't appreciate this freedom until I lost it . |
| 5 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I wanted to let you know of this initiative because I thought it might be possible to : |
| 12 | I had to clean my erm my new desk out in this room before I bought it with me |
| 13 | ‘ But if you got that for this place and I sold my apartment , together we 'd have enough money to get married and buy — ’ He broke off , a flush appearing beneath his tan as he realised he was pushing her too far along the relationship path and could also be sounding mercenary . |
| 14 | And so it was in the light of this suspicion that I examined my friend 's body and my own . |
| 15 | ‘ I did pop round for a chat with him earlier this evening and I thought he seemed a bit jumpy . |
| 16 | I was a student in London but I was at home on this occasion when I met someone in the park . |
| 17 | Had Freda on the phone this morning but I told her that I would n't doing the . |
| 18 | Which reminds me I meant to get weighed this morning before I had my breakfast . |
| 19 | Which reminds me , I meant to get weighed this morning before I had my breakfast and I forgot . |
| 20 | President , congress I 've got ta up and say to you , I had , I 've had to borrow the wife 's glasses this morning cos I left mine in the car |
| 21 | I gave it to Christopher this morning cos I knew I 'd forget tonight . |
| 22 | There was a bus went down School Lane at half past two this morning cos I sent it down there . |
| 23 | They were on the till when I was up there this morning and I said you are you were working there |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | I bumped it against a door-frame when the earthquake started this morning and I lost my balance . ’ |
| 26 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 27 | Assistant manager Eddie Stein , who had taken temporary control , said : ‘ The chairman did ask me how I felt about Barry possibly coming back earlier this week and I told him I 'd welcome him with open arms . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I met this man and I thought he was wonderful — so nice to me and everything when I first met him . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |