Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land |
| 2 | ‘ And I goes in to this guy , and he goes like that , ‘ Hello , sit down . ’ |
| 3 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
| 4 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 5 | In fact , I told him that when I got back from this holiday he must come round and have a meal . |
| 6 | When some boys at the school put excrement under the headmaster 's chair , he contrasted the culprits unfavourably with true school sportsmen : ‘ Last Friday I was feeling pretty low when I found out about this lot … but then I went to football on Saturday , there were several lads and teachers there , playing their hearts out or giving up their time just for the school , and then I thought , ‘ Perhaps , it 's not so bad after all . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Afterwards I moved in with this neighbour . |
| 8 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 9 | all I want out of this life is to meet a few men with something more between their ears than the latest Donna Summer hit . |
| 10 | Erm and I came up with this bit , sort of the middle bit , national curriculum levels would be er your own thing right ? |
| 11 | I came in to this building last year I 've got people sitting here who 've realised it was n't a happy place to be I found it quite difficult . |
| 12 | ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own . |
| 13 | I lived with my father , then when my father died I came back to this country . |
| 14 | So anyway I put in for this job and and there were people who who ought to have got it before me , er for instance er there was a councillor at er at , Tom , did you know Tom ? |
| 15 | I look back upon this household as having been — after [ Edward ] — the strongest influence in my life . |
| 16 | Problem was I was playing a British Military Police Chief , and I still had my uniform on when I turned up at this place . |
| 17 | Before I stand back from this chapter , a summary . |
| 18 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 19 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 20 | By the time I get back to this dump we 're staying in I 've decided to say nothing to Rachel . |
| 21 | ‘ I will be , soon as I get out of this place . |
| 22 | So just at the last moment as the ladder began to sweep that way I just pushed as er hard as I could in the air , and the wardrobe flew up into the air in that direction , the ladder flew off in that direction , I flew off in this direction |
| 23 | I had n't been in a very good mood when I started out on this journey . |
| 24 | I started out in this business not having any concept about what an actor did . |
| 25 | Er this I do n't understand , I fucked up at this stage . |
| 26 | I think I think I go back to this point about I think in concept anyway I 'm not happy about er a proposition that er that function is performed or I can see the disadvantages significant disadvantages in having the traffic er for both the A sixty one er and the A fifty nine c and its links into Harrogate and Knaresborough , concentrated on that er on on inner northern line . |
| 27 | Yeah , er can I go back to this point before |
| 28 | I went on in this fashion for some while . |
| 29 | So when she was going on about Nigerian boys , I said , " So what , if I went out with this guy , you 'd be lucky if he stayed with me . " |
| 30 | I went out with this group several times on Saturday and Sunday mornings . |