Example sentences of "[pers pn] this [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I WAS SURPRISED THAT YOU JOSTLED ME , RINCEWIND , FOR I HAVE AN APPOINTMENT WITH THEE THIS VERY NIGHT . |
| 2 | Why do n't you show me this bloody photo ? ’ he asked with a snap of irritation . |
| 3 | ‘ Tell me this earthshattering news of yours . ’ |
| 4 | I spoke into the phone : ‘ Hello there , Jamie , what are you doing calling me this late ? ’ |
| 5 | I used to sit in my living room with my mouth open , eyes raised to heaven waiting for something to happen to give me this new boldness and this ability to speak in tongues which seemed often to accompany the events in Acts . |
| 6 | ‘ Now Bobby Gould has given me this new contract . |
| 7 | You tell me this all your affair , you deal with it yourself . |
| 8 | But of course these tendencies can be traced back to earlier stages in his development ; and the Ode to Duty — ‘ Me this unchartered freedom tires ’ — was written the year before . |
| 9 | " I 'm right grateful to ye for gettin' me this grand dog . |
| 10 | Right give me this idiomatic first version , please , and any anything which is , which you consider to be not idiomatic . |
| 11 | She 's going now and gon na leave me this old crap on the table ! . |
| 12 | right , that 's it , you 've , you 've told me this three times and I 've told you several times as well , the , the Russians put everything they 've got into military technology , just because , just because their kids are still running around |
| 13 | I think they got me this lovely velvet one . |
| 14 | ‘ Dear sweet Lord above , I do thank Thee for Thy kindness in showing me this lovely woman before I died . ’ |
| 15 | And he sells me this fucking massive two two air rifle which you 've seen have n't you ? |
| 16 | Not for me this local one is absolutely splendid ! |
| 17 | Harvey Pitcher , doing research on nineteenth century Arran writers and painters and especially on the wealthy Muir family who rented houses for many years on Arran , has given me this delightful little gem . |
| 18 | PARLIAMENT has been reminding me this past week of some scenes from the musical Paint Your Wagon . |
| 19 | THE conductor Alan Tongue tells me this heart-warming little story with a touch of the Scarlet Pimpernels about it . |
| 20 | Pauly showed me this this thing , the game thing for Atari where you li disk pack what 's it called Paulie ? |
| 21 | He told me this foolish theory many times , but really he was just telling it to himself : the less of a woman be made me out to be , the less of a lover he would need to be . |
| 22 | Dad patted me on the head and Mum gives me this little kiss on the cheek and then they went off and left me with this old woman . |
| 23 | For me this generous use of natural reverberation acts as a tonic after so many recordings where the acoustics seem too dry or contrived . |
| 24 | Why do n't you show me this wondrous park of yours ? ’ |
| 25 | Anyway this woman , the problematic one , stopped me in full view of everyone and handed me this folded piece of paper . |
| 26 | He come in laughing one day , look at this Paul , look at this and he shows me this big long letter that this teacher had wrote on . |
| 27 | ‘ But give me this any time , ’ he laughed . |
| 28 | And I I 've got a letter from the Department of the Environment and the Home Office saying that , er and th and because of that it 's taking them this long to actually get these byelaws effected . |
| 29 | It is a privilege to pay them this small token of respect . |
| 30 | As Branch Manager Ian Davies said ( speaking as a confirming bachelor ) ‘ five good men have bitten the dust ; normally men of sound judgement but I will forgive them this one mistake ! ’ |