Example sentences of "this [noun] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went into this field and I sat there and cried for hours in this pouring rain and I suddenly thought to myself , ‘ This is ridiculous , this is no good — you 're not meant to be an actor , you 're meant to be something else — a comedian . ’ |
| 2 | That is a ground which has not been urged upon me by counsel in this case and I do not rely upon that ground only in dealing with this matter . |
| 3 | Okay Noel thank you for your er your time and being a good sport this afternoon and I hear you have a little one you had better go back and sort things out . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's my wife 's antenatal class this afternoon and I 've got to look after the other one . ’ |
| 5 | He arrived this afternoon and I sent him off to rest . |
| 6 | Had it in the bedroom when I was a kip this afternoon and I switched the battery off , so it does n't work very well with the battery off ! |
| 7 | There 's a national debate going on t we 're not gon na crack it here this afternoon and I do n't want to get in there but I just wanted to put the other side of the er of the coin to that . |
| 8 | Well run councils will flourish as a result of this settlement and I offer them every encouragement to do so . |
| 9 | And er over the years we 've built up a reputation I know is is a genuine one say that because I know that you 're going to appreciate this course and I use the term very very particularly you will enjoy it . |
| 10 | There are a number of issues which I have discussed with my colleagues in this department and I attach a paper which identifies these . |
| 11 | ‘ She joined the art class at the beginning of this term and I believe Angy was quite impressed with her talent . ’ |
| 12 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 13 | This is a horror movie a fucking horror movie this lunatic is making his own horror film and you ca n't even tell yourself Hell it 's only a story are n't the special effects good it is n't real because that 's exactly what it is and the gorilla man is explaining in that hideous high-pitched baby 's voice what he has in this bottle and in this syringe and I throw up halfway through but they pause the video for me . |
| 14 | One day I was out working the streets , I went with this punter and I went back to his place . |
| 15 | drinking this tea and I 've sat here bold as brass picked up me cup and walked out |
| 16 | ‘ I realise you love this car and I know you 're tired , ’ she said , determinedly hauling him out , ‘ but I 'd be grateful if you could save this until we 're in the house and in the dry . ’ |
| 17 | Do you know I actually listened to some of this tape and I do n't half sound different on the taped , the real me |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm going to produce this movie and I want you to direct it . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't know whether David would agree , but my experience as a teacher was that I certainly encountered , I realize now , in my teaching career , children with dyslexia and yet no-one had told me , in my training , anything about this condition and I do n't think I was in a position until later , in a sense , to recognise that I had seen children with this difficulty . |
| 21 | There was no advance planning to reach this figure and I decided at the beginning that I would not cut corners in an effort to keep within the budget . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Had n't got one upstairs , had n't a card , so I went out sa we 've been out this afternoon , and I get this card and I think , oh yes , now that 's pretty ! |
| 24 | Every one of you has made a contribution to the character of this institution and I take pleasure in acknowledging what each of you has done to make this such a satisfying academic and social environment . |
| 25 | The last but one day of this programme and I hope you are feeling good . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | So when I pe when I sit , when I think oh right I 'll have a piss up session this Saturday and I see one of my friends getting absolutely slaughtered it puts me off straight away because I think oh stupid , what , what a waste . |
| 28 | One very quick point , sorry erm I do n't want to sound as if I feel I can but er I welcome your comment at the beginning the condition be be left out on what 's going on because I thought this was actually the key function of this committee and I mean I see these are being decision has been taken . |
| 29 | I was looking for the Mr because I remembered I said I would be here in this session and I 'd forgotten . |
| 30 | 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 . |