Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way .
2 And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now .
3 And I told them about this job I 'd done here .
4 Mm , mm and no , I dropped them off this morning , that 's it , he 's picking them up
5 Although the ministers were too polite to commit themselves , even when I pressed them on this point , it was clear to me that they felt they , and their church , had been used .
6 ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon .
7 I called them into this room and spoke to them .
8 Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it .
9 well I 've never got any , I saw it in this shop
10 I took her outside this morning and she is the typical scaredy cat she is !
11 I took it to this kid at
12 I learned it off this actor I was in jail with once .
13 it 's like party balloons , she 's got like water balloons I mean , with water and , they was , I had them in this box mucking about , I was trying take something out , and then like we dropped a water balloon in their bathroom and erm , we started having water fight , and that they filled them up and go into the balloons and then you go and tie it up
14 I had mine on this morning and er but she was out anyway .
15 Terrible neuralgic pains which troubled him throughout this period were the mirror of his inward distress , and the large doses of laudanum he took to relieve his symptoms , a portent for the future .
16 Kahnweiler throughout his life was to maintain that the painting was unfinished , and on occasion was even to assert that Picasso himself saw it in this way .
17 Details of Prices , Seating , Ticket and Booking Agents are published annually in late December and may be obtained from the Tattoo Office , 22 Market Street , Edinburgh EH1 1QB or from the office which supplied you with this order form .
18 You got me into this mess .
19 and if you got it through this gold card there was another five percent off so or something like that off .
20 It was Mr Gorbachev , after all , who got them into this mess .
21 To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence .
22 ‘ I was told , ’ said Lili , ‘ by the person who told me about this place . ’
23 The prophets had sharp words for those who reduced them to this level .
24 It was there she told me about this sister and showed me her hand .
25 When she told us about this visit , she hoped it would be centred around a seminar , funded by the Romanian government , at which tutors would be trained to teach machine knitting to young people whose chances of employment near their own homes were otherwise remote .
26 She informed him of this conclusion , and with his usual calm he accepted it .
27 She paid me for this week and she said well I you 've got ninety pound here
28 That 's why you heard me about this morning !
29 ‘ I 'm surprised you heard it above this wind . ’
30 Of his Quaker relatives who followed him in this course , S. P. Tregelles [ q.v. ] and the banker Samuel Lloyd were the most prominent .
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