Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [verb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Or has he taken this statement from a book or article written by someone else ?
2 or do you call this living room ?
3 Comments such as ‘ a history of childhood abuse is both hip and horrible , the rock'n'roll statement with knobs on ’ do not encourage other men to discuss the issue , nor do they treat this subject with the seriousness it deserves .
4 Nor did I notice this fact until we were well on our way home . ’
5 ‘ Well , Knut , I 'll put it simply , and bind you to keep this secret from my son .
6 If she did n't know better she 'd have said he 'd sabotaged her jeep and made it rain this way , just so he could enjoy some amusement at her expense !
7 right , you go upstairs , pick up the most expensive article they 've got and then you go downstairs to the customer relations department and say I bought this article yesterday and say , and , and I 'm afraid
8 Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles .
9 I says , they have a hotel there , so I brought them up to the hotel and took them , he went in and he made arrangements to stay there and then I took them over and let them see this lake dwell this crannagh as they call it .
10 Shut up , and let me watch this play . "
11 " I think we have to wait and see what happens this winter in South Africa .
12 and I had Mike ironing them while I was putting 'em up , I said right stand here and watch me hang this curtain , so I 'm showing him how to iron it , so while I 'm upstairs putting 'em up he 's ironing
13 He then returns to his first mate , the primary female , whose eggs are by now just hatching , and helps her raise this brood .
14 I sat there and thought what did this woman abolish ?
15 ‘ Yes , ’ ‘ And do you like this case ?
16 So she took the handbag back into Tesco and said I found this handbag erm and they said well give me your name and address and all that so in any rate what happened Bet ?
17 Clearly , an LEA has an obligation in the words of a recent Audit Commission report ( Audit Commission 1989a ) to ‘ articulate a vision of what the education service is trying to achieve ’ and to ‘ support schools and help them to fulfil this vision ’ , but it could be argued that the most appropriate focus for such a vision , necessarily generalized because of the range of institutional contexts and pupil needs involved , should be on identifying broad goals and the kinds of learning which schools might seek to promote .
18 Come and help me dish this dinner up .
19 And when he was alone sometimes and Mr Henry was a blacksmith , when he wanted to kill a bullock he used to come and help him to slaughter this bullock .
20 Are you gon na come home and help me dig this pond out then Mark ?
21 But let us examine this definition itself more closely .
22 But do we talk this way because it is the way we think ?
23 But do you think this thing what he was on about , pension mortgage , do you think that would be better ?
24 To me , that record was like , ‘ Okay , I 'm in this band , we 've sold thirty million records or whatever it was , but do I deserve this success ? ’
25 The husband is one potentially appreciative figure in the housewife 's landscape but does he play this role effectively ?
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