Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I sit here typing this letter , the sky is black and it 's pouring with rain — real April showers . |
| 2 | I 'd just met this medium — how could she have known this ? ’ |
| 3 | I , I 'd just taken this thing |
| 4 | I told you I sleep in that chair , did n't I ? — It must have been about midnight because I 'd just watched this film and that did n't finish until half eleven . |
| 5 | And they were interviewing this feller , he said , oh we went for a day out he said and I 'd just bought this car and I was really made up with it he said |
| 6 | Well , I 'd never heard this expression before and ‘ I ’ explained to me that it was another word meaning ‘ lesbian ’ . |
| 7 | Sir I 'm beginning to wish I 'd never resurrected this matter . |
| 8 | I 've had two or three of them buggers but I think I 'd better go this time as I ca n't get no more . |
| 9 | ‘ Before we go I 'd better check this guy for a piece — or a tape recorder . ‘ |
| 10 | Oh oh right I 'd better turn this thing off now erm |
| 11 | It 's my area and I came here to win this tournament . ’ |
| 12 | A few years ago , John Cook and I set out to examine this effect quantitatively . |
| 13 | When I set out to write this story I thought that it would primarily show how scientists come up with ideas , design a strategy to test them , carry out the experiments , share experiences and attempt to replicate claimed discoveries , thereby establishing new natural phenomena . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's a good man and I feel easier facing this winter with him working with me . ’ |
| 15 | Today around 80% of the prints I produce now use this technique . |
| 16 | Today around 80% of the prints I produce now use this technique . |
| 17 | I knew how to research this sort of project ! |
| 18 | I turn aside to record this judgment , because it is relevant to a later stage of this memoir . |
| 19 | I go out to work this morning at nine o'clock , I come back , I open the kitchen door , four o'clock this afternoon walk into my kitchen empty ! |
| 20 | However , I do not regard this problem as insuperable . |
| 21 | I do not make this point to suggest that all these theories are wrong in every detail , but to underline the importance of looking behind the apparently innocent measures on which so much of the global-system literature is based . |
| 22 | I do not think this grouping or group let is yet a class either in itself or for itself and it may never become one . |
| 23 | I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical . |
| 24 | I do not think this difficulty is insuperable , particularly if one accepts that a single gene mutation could have a large effect in fitting an organism to a new environment . |
| 25 | I do not think this presentation advances the arguments . |
| 26 | After what has happened I do not think this girl will be able easily to adjust to a normal teenage existence for some time and I think any order forbidding her to see this man again would not only be unrealistic , but would place an intolerable burden on a young girl who , it seems to me , has had quite enough strain already . |
| 27 | Without the frequent and often detailed accounts in the Henley Standard — especially in the early , interesting years — I do not think this book could have been produced . |
| 28 | I do not think this association would have put Flaubert off . |
| 29 | I do not think this reversal did much to uphold the seriousness or credibility of the sporting authorities ; it did , however , solve certain in-house problems and — until Monza — lower the temperature in the great debate about Ferrari ‘ influence ’ . |
| 30 | I do not intend this list to be exhaustive . |