Example sentences of "[pers pn] this [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me this with her lips , not her voice . |
| 2 | Mm , I mean you 've told me this before Mark , well I , I said to you |
| 3 | A friend showed me this in the newspaper . |
| 4 | 'You tell me this in order to comfort me and make me able to betray you without rending my own heart . |
| 5 | Charlotte told me this in a letter she sent from Scarborough , a town by the sea on the north-east coast . |
| 6 | If you 'd told me this in the make-up room when you came to have your hair cut , you 'd have saved yourself a needless journey . |
| 7 | Oh she got me this from Ikea . |
| 8 | Waddle may give them this on the left , but it would surely have done no harm to start the match with Dorigo 's dash instead of the perennial , peripheral Pearce . |
| 9 | She told them this in confidence , because the master did n't know — he suspected , apparently , which explains why he went off Theo , but they 'd always denied it . |
| 10 | It will cost you this per year for two years . |
| 11 | I said no Julie I said I have n't I said I would tell you cos I said I , she said to me do ring me and let me know , and I said I said I would and I will , I said no cos I did n't tell her when it were you see , so I said it 's this week coming and I 'll ring you this on Monday , so she said oh it was only , cos she said I saw Deb and Deb wondered , I thought yeah I bet she did she would |
| 12 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 13 | I 'm not offering you this for the sake of your pretty brown eyes , Folly — it 's a business proposition , pure and simple . |
| 14 | Well , I tell you this for nothing , and this is the truth . |
| 15 | I tell you something , I tell you this as a friend , because I have a sympathy for you … |
| 16 | I tell you this as background information . |
| 17 | I 'm asking you this as a real favour . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm surprised Geoff has n't told you this over the years |
| 19 | I have got a problem actually and I 'm gon na tell you this without recording it cos I do n't want anyone to know . |
| 20 | I 'm telling you this with authority because he 's made me typing monitor in the matter . ’ |
| 21 | I think I told you this by the way , this I want to describe to you now is the same for all of them . |
| 22 | I 'm telling you this in the strictest confidence of course . ’ |
| 23 | Well let me ask you this in this case , do women 's personalities change behind the wheel ? , button one for yes and button two for no well , well , well |
| 24 | I 'm telling you this in confidence , but you 'd find out about it when you go through the books . |
| 25 | ‘ He had — I tell you this in confidence , Superintendent — he had , on the occasion of the annual Parents ’ Night , doctored with alcohol the fruit punch intended for the boarders who helped serve the modest refreshments . |
| 26 | ‘ Alan I owe you this from a year back . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ My dearest David — although I do n't have the faintest idea why I should still call you this after what you told me last night — I 've had a long think . |
| 28 | A very hard game for you this against Leicester but you do have Collimore in form . |
| 29 | Instead of a letter , he sent her this in manuscript form … |
| 30 | But , but , but from the em from the employers point of view , what he stands to lose if that person 's away from work , I mean , all all all the er , chap 's gon na lose is his , his income so , if he was doing it this in his own case , he would be looking to replace . |