Example sentences of "[prep] this [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ogden Nash , the 20th century American poet , probably summed up popular attitudes about this bird when he wrote : |
| 2 | She 'd started out meaning to apologise , but there was something so darned aggravating about this man that it was turning into an accusation instead . |
| 3 | Just what was it about this man that he could arouse her strongest emotions so very easily ? she thought hazily . |
| 4 | Mr Kinnersley , a journalist who lives near Bath , Avon , said last night : ‘ I 'm very pleased about this decision but it is n't a charter for people to drink and drive . |
| 5 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , explained : ‘ Quite a few historians have written about this building but it seems a bit odd that none of them knew the exact date it opened . |
| 6 | I would , I worry terribly much about this discussion and it was suggesting that men are somehow the root of all evil and all |
| 7 | I do n't know what to do about this milk if it 's still two lots , have we nearly finished the one we 're on ? |
| 8 | You know , he 's giving , gip about this girl or something he said and ye you took offence ! |
| 9 | ‘ I was just telling you about this girl and what her mother said on the night before she got married to the sailor . ’ |
| 10 | Meanwhile , while our association welcomes the six months stay of execution for the Redmire line ( Echo , Feb 19 ) may we urge all those concerned about this issue that there is no room for complacency . |
| 11 | It is difficult to exaggerate the strength of Protestant feeling about this issue and it is worth quoting Allister 's statement of the views expressed by many of the people I interviewed : |
| 12 | We we should discuss a bit about this document and I too have had the er dubious honour of reading John Major 's speech and it 's nice to see that both Tory speakers have actually managed to take half of it each and paraphrase it . |
| 13 | We had a nagging anxiety about this hedgehog because its nest was quite exposed , visible from the house , and a bit of a cowboy job , being nothing more than a loose , untethered football of leaves . |
| 14 | Turner himself is rather philosophical about this question but he 's obviously angry about what he sees as a major failure of imagination on behalf of his record company ( RCA in America , Beggars Banquet on this side of the world ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The inspectors are aware that many people do n't know about this law so they will usually give just a warning to first offenders . |
| 18 | It sounds to me when you talk about the misery , and I 'm sure it must have been miserable , I do n't doubt that for a minute , but when you talk about this misery and everything you went through , it 's a wee bit like the old fashioned way , you know , everyone was saying my God , what I went through , you know to have you ! |
| 19 | Can you tell me a little bit more about this school that you went to ? |
| 20 | I do not believe in the course of the protracted discussions about this case that anyone seriously proposed that all Cabinet deliberations should be revealed to the world at large within minutes of their taking place . |
| 21 | You 'll remember that we had a pilot project in South Oxford Health Centre , Tony is one of the G P's there , I 'm expecting that he 's going to be very positive about this project since we all are , in terms of it 's practice service delivery . |
| 22 | ‘ What about this restaurant that you could n't wait to show me ? ’ |
| 23 | It was about this time that their grandmother died of a sudden heart attack . |
| 24 | Whiteley , C.O. of 69 Squadron , recalled : ‘ It was about this time that we were stood by to intercept transport aircraft proceeding from Italy to North Africa . |
| 25 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 26 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
| 27 | It was about this time that he started to court Sylvestre , and in the year 1583 she agreed to marry him . |
| 28 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
| 29 | It was about this time that I committed a faux pas which my contemporaries never let me forget . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , I had an odd feeling about this fellow and it came to me many times during my short period as an Instructor . |