Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I still feel that this story if I have retold it right , would have appealed to Eliot more than the tamer one about the negro .
2 well this case I 'm afraid does n't lend itself to short entirely impossible , er Mr maybe have to say erm will lead to the questions and then for example spent er a long time on questions this afternoon that I 've had for you Mr
3 ‘ It 's my wife 's antenatal class this afternoon and I 've got to look after the other one . ’
4 ‘ I 've had doubts that I could play at this level but I 've had great support from everyone . ’
5 this , this jumper that I 've got on now , green one .
6 In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him .
7 I sha n't be coming to New York this spring as I 'd hoped because Monsieur Félix has decided to open a branch of the Maison de Verveine in London instead of New York !
8 I have not acceded to the application of Madame Bihi to be joined as a representative or other party in this action but I have acceded to her application that I should invite the Attorney-General to appoint an amicus curiae and Mr. Richards has appeared instructed by the Treasury Solicitor .
9 drinking this tea and I 've sat here bold as brass picked up me cup and walked out
10 I was no exception to this rule when I graduated to command and number some very good friends amongst the chiefs with whom I have sailed .
11 And , but I , I 'm glad to make a greeting from a , a wide range of churches erm , I 've got to discard this figure because I 've got .
12 I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off .
13 So er there was this poor girl sitting on this seat and I 'd seen her there and so , there was a nice lady sat they said er they took the Redditch train off the thing and put this Shrewsbury on .
14 It is in this setting that I want to try and talk about Moral Re-Armament .
15 I was looking for the Mr because I remembered I said I would be here in this session and I 'd forgotten .
16 It was through this work that I came to hear of the case of Dr Ron Carrington , a 35-year-old psychiatrist .
17 I er I nearly fell through the floor a little while ago I was British Gas people and one of them living with this lady and I want to give her half of my lump sum , how can I do to avoid er to effect her income tax or inheritance tax thinking in terms of the inheritance tax limit of a hundred and fifty thousand I said , Well would you mind telling me about how much it will be ?
18 So I went through this process and I started to read my thoughts generally , not to be too much one way or the other .
19 My sick leave has obviously interrupted this process and I have missed out on all three .
20 Lowe ball-nuts have been around for a while and they are one of the best devices of this sort that I have used so far .
21 It was at this period that I began to think about myself in the third person : Elizabeth is compassionate and considerate , she thinks how other people might feel .
22 You should be aware of this period and I recommend reading all four plays and also The Theatre of George Devine by Irving Wardle .
23 ‘ When — in this room after I 'd finished telling you of the singing fountain , you said , ‘ How lovely ’ and I own , I thought you the most lovely creature , in mind and body , that I had ever known . ’
24 I walked in and there were twelve fellas sitting in this room and I had to sing in front of them all .
25 The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal .
26 I use this place if I need to get rid of someone .
27 There was another track after ‘ Happy Hour ’ that we could have put out that probably would have done just as well , but instead we went for a ballad , ‘ Think For A Minute ’ , to make people think , ‘ Jesus , there 's more to this group than I 'd thought ’ .
28 So again after this meeting cos I want to tie it up .
29 It was n't a very full list cos erm er it did n't occur to me until about seven o'clock this evening that I had to go out quite soon and then I just ran around frantically doing things .
30 It was at this point that I left to seek medical help for fear I would split my sides .
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