Example sentences of "[verb] this [noun] [conj] [pron] " 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 | Lanfranc , who had a practical mind , had foreseen this need when he was still prior of Bec , and had put together a collection of Canon Law , which stood him in good stead as archbishop . |
| 5 | It is true that all advanced industrial societies have witnessed this shift but none to the same extent as this country . |
| 6 | You and I will want to affirm this world and its beauty and its sadness and all the colours of life — the greens and golds , the greys and the blacks — as part of the tapestry which is God 's gift to us all . |
| 7 | Ladies and gentlemen erm about three years ago we finally decided to restore this car that you see behind us and although it was er an impossible task at times we , we carried on regardless and I hope that you 'll agree that everything you see today , plus the fact that seeing everybody out here , I think we , you 'll agree we made the right decision and er we feel that as long as this car is in this position that nobody 'll erm have any doubts who the Three- Ninetieth Group were and er , I think er , I think we 're all proud of this day particularly . |
| 8 | The umbilical cord and the afterbirth were still inside me , so she began to yank this baby and I said " Excuse me , I 've still got a bit inside me . " |
| 9 | He was building this house and he did not know why . |
| 10 | Well , you know , Donald came up here year after year and took a real tongue lashing and you did n't really put anything down there that could be criticized this year but you said we 're gon na fight . |
| 11 | In the pre-civil war period , one group of clerics and laymen who shared this approach and who thus opposed the confrontational policies of Laud and his followers , began to meet at the house of Lucius Cary , Lord Falkland , at Great Tew in Oxfordshire . |
| 12 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 13 | It 's me that told him not to go cos I said , I did n't want to go this week and he did n't go . |
| 14 | I do n't know if there 's anything on tomorrow Maybe we ought to go this evening if she 's there to work . |
| 15 | Like you I am a member of the managing board for the D S O. Erm , and erm , like you I 'm sure that erm , you would like to repeat your words , that you said then about heralding this report and it 's successes and reminding the members and th of the public , and members of this county council the real benefits from maintaining erm , our D S O and from the erm the way in which it has been managed and the way in which the amalgamation is working there . |
| 16 | I shall just say I 'm sorry we do n't want this meal and we 'll go away . |
| 17 | The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 enacts this Provision though it substitutes 208 hours for twenty-six days and exempts employees who are elected to the chair of councils ( Clause 10 ) . |
| 18 | On the other hand , I found some feminists justified this style as something that ‘ suits women better ’ or ‘ gets away from male ways of speaking ’ . |
| 19 | It is necessary to preserve this style and he does so despite the modernity of some of the movements . |
| 20 | We work closely with the Department of Social Security in developing such guidance and are keen to preserve this relationship as we believe it provides more flexibility and enables actuaries to apply their professional judgement ultimately for the benefit of the pension scheme member . |
| 21 | In order to write objectives and as I say we 're not gon na labour this point because it , it 's easy . |
| 22 | Children seem to have little difficulty accepting this convention because it is so like the action replays they will frequently have seen on television . |
| 23 | No , because right has a tummy bug this week and she did n't phone or nothing like to say I do n't wan na phone Margaret she do n't wan na know so I do n't know why you 're bugging her for ! |
| 24 | A way round this hearsay evidence is for the officer to say ‘ The passenger Mr. Jones says he is not licensed to drive this car so I am reporting you ( the defendant ) for quitting a vehicle ’ etc . |
| 25 | Worships if I may interrupt the the this erm dispute about the damage which was allegedly caused I have mentioned it to Miss this morning and she has undertaken to make further enquiries . |
| 26 | I have mentioned it to Miss this morning and she has undertaken to make further enquiries . |
| 27 | I it does n't speak very highly if I may say so Group Captain , for R A F discipline if what you 're telling me and telling the committee that you think that pilots should be using this facility , would be using this facility when they 're ordered not to . |
| 28 | A substantial number of miscible blends have now been discovered using this principle and it is possible to identify certain groups or repeat units , which when incorporated in polymer chains tend to enter into these intermolecular interactions and enhance the miscibility . |
| 29 | You could knit a whole beautiful wardrobe using this technique and it can be even more exciting if you use three or four colours by leaving two rows blank for colour one , two rows blank for colour two , two rows blank for colour three and two rows of holes for colour four . |
| 30 | It is particularly important when using this scale that your remedy is well selected . |