Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing has prepared us for this divine outburst . |
| 2 | No-one has set me above this people . |
| 3 | He 'd kill me if he knew I 'd made something like this . ’ |
| 4 | In fact later on during the flight , when I 'd unravelled myself from this guy and was playing poker with some French people , I asked God to give me the sign then , in the hand I was about to get . |
| 5 | ‘ I had expected you before this , Mr Beckenham , ’ said the lawyer with a twinkle , setting a chair for his client to sit down in the drawing-room of the small house that served also for his office . |
| 6 | It was the first time in my life I had experienced anything like this and was nervous but deeply honoured . |
| 7 | I can look back with pride on recalling how well I had adapted myself to this trade , and all aspects involved . |
| 8 | You 've lost , I 've lost you on this last one , Kim have I ? |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know what he does but I 've seen him around this area . |
| 10 | Jenny did circulate to me , by way of saying , I 've done something about this , copies of D T P quality manual and printing quality control manual . |
| 11 | You must be the fifth person I 've explained it to this month . |
| 12 | And I 've warned you of this . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 've modified it in this way . |
| 14 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 15 | I 've told you about this , have n't I ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've pressured you into this the whole way , have n't I ? ’ he murmured . |
| 17 | I 've got one behind this knee here |
| 18 | I 've got it on this tape about fifteen times cos everybody supports Arsenal , I said stays in the cup longer . |
| 19 | Cos I 've got it in this cupboard . |
| 20 | But I have heard nothing of this ! |
| 21 | ‘ I have heard nothing of this until you came into my gallery a quarter of an hour ago and accused me . |
| 22 | On that occasion he said : ‘ This is the first time I have done anything like this , but I do n't apologise for it . |
| 23 | By now you 'll be out and about all the time on your scooter but , just in case the second Thursday of the month should dawn wet and windy again , I have chosen yours as this month 's Star Letter . |
| 24 | That 's the reason I have brought you to this quiet garden , not to some tavern where I would drink myself senseless . |
| 25 | For that reason I have excluded them from this chapter , which is concerned with men holding offices of profit under the Crown . |
| 26 | The proof of this statement is so simple and elegant that it is the one piece of mathematics I have permitted myself in this book . |
| 27 | Other radicals demanded that foreign policy should no longer be at the mercy of " the ideas , valuations and methods of a sporting aristo-plutocracy " or " the obscure convolutions of diplomatic staffs " , that " there must be an end of the secret diplomacy which has plunged us into this catastrophe " and that the working classes should " lay down our own terms , make our own proclamations , establish our own diplomacy " . |
| 28 | The reply , which has mystified me until this day , was , ‘ Oh ! we did n't know you meant that one ! ’ |
| 29 | This , admittedly , is a hard saying , and may well stir a first inkling that there must be something fundamentally wrong with the approach which has brought us to this point . |
| 30 | We have erm there have been certain decisions made over time which has got us to this position and whether erm you agree or anyone agrees or not the the the right next step is to specify a location , nevertheless it 's embodied in what 's gone on so far , a series of steps towards making the decision . |