Example sentences of "this [noun] [subord] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ If you mean because it 's your day off , there are no days off during this case unless I decide I can spare you . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Customer 5 : ‘ What happens if my daughter does n't like this jumper when I get it home ? ’ |
| 6 | I persuaded her to come on this course because I thought it would be a change for us both . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I did n't appreciate this freedom until I lost it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I wanted to let you know of this initiative because I thought it might be possible to : |
| 13 | I had to clean my erm my new desk out in this room before I bought it with me |
| 14 | If you really can not talk then you can write your replies , but I am not leaving this room until I have them . |
| 15 | Well I 'd like an answer to this questions because I think it 's fairly fundamental . |
| 16 | Perhaps you 'd like to stick around and watch this happening because I remember you subbing once for an etching lesson . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | I gave it to Christopher this morning cos I knew I 'd forget tonight . |
| 19 | There was a bus went down School Lane at half past two this morning cos I sent it down there . |
| 20 | I came this morning because I think you may be able to help me from your knowledge-of the family and of the area . |
| 21 | obviously we 've got to work together on all , are you listening to me ? , on all the different parts of the body , you want them all to come alive , okay , so , this week as I say we 're gon na concentrate on sound , sound , sound , sound , you 've got to play on sound that is the painting , I mean the , the pictures do you , alright that 's fine , at the same does n't matter we 've still got to work on different things , yeah , okay ? , erm , so , as I say we 're going to make a sound machine in different groups , now to give you an example , what I what you to do is be , I 'm going to give you a situation , give , choose a profession , okay , let's say we are in hospital , now I want you each and everyone of you in this group think of the situation , think of a sound that one might hear in a hospital , everyone to themselves just think of a sound , could be a patient screaming , it could be a heart machine , it could be , er exactly , could be that , could be absolutely anything , it could sirens , it could be anything , okay , for everyone I want you to have the sound in your head okay , everyone 's got a sound in their head ? |
| 22 | Erm , does any member of the Council wish to make any comment on this resolution before I put it formally to the vote ? |
| 23 | However , I have excluded this idea as I believe it to be too far fetched . |
| 24 | I decided to come this way because I wanted you to see the courtyard by moonlight . ’ |
| 25 | So history 's a very much broader and more popular subject in this country than I think it is in almost any other country in the world . |
| 26 | We were much better ‘ staffed ’ this time so I think we were more efficient and our pilfering/loss rate which I felt had not been bad last time was down to only two items this time , even better . |
| 27 | ‘ This time as I talked I felt the ground move . |
| 28 | Just stand in front of this screen while I call him … ’ |