Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My coach and I planned to use this meeting as training and it just turned out to be bad training . ’ |
| 2 | And looked after it and I went to do this job for . |
| 3 | I 've gone off him since I met Tony but we do share a love of mother earth and I want to see this thing through . |
| 4 | And I want to stress this morning how essential it is that the link between the Labour Party and the unions be maintained . |
| 5 | Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah |
| 6 | T. B. You had to see what they were passing through and you had to have a chit and you had to time this chit and sign it and then you went to the hut and put it on the spike . |
| 7 | And if you were a a lecturer in politics and you went to see this play then you might think oh look oh and then you 'd start thinking and if you were a scientist you would think about it in another way and if you were an artist you 'd think about it in another way . |
| 8 | But then I do n't suppose that would be enough for you , and after all this is Boy 's story mostly , he is after all in a proper sense my hero , and you have to have this Boy clearly in your mind before we can proceed . |
| 9 | And she started to say this morning , oh you 're alright ! |
| 10 | And we had to shift this lot . |
| 11 | One of the nice aspects of a task such as that is that I think we , as professional physicists — and I 'm a physicist too erm we , as professional physicists , feel there 's a right way of doing something because it 's the way we learnt and we 've got used to , and we tend to instil this idea into other people . |
| 12 | The Bar seeks to take a positive view on law reform and we try to fulfil this requirement by considering each year a number of particular issues . |
| 13 | There is still not much awareness that the personal is also political and we want to change this situation . |
| 14 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 15 | But a promise is a promise and we have to pursue this thing to the bitter end . |
| 16 | And we have to get this boat back by one o'clock anyway . |
| 17 | He gave no details of the proposals but said : ‘ The deportees issue has become like a thorn in resuming the peace talks and we have to remove this thorn . |
| 18 | ‘ No doubt the deportees issue has become like a thorn in renewing the peace talks and we have to remove this thorn , ’ Mr Shara said . |
| 19 | Assuming there is no change in the relevant law , the data on which the aggregated tables is based will not be available for nearly a hundred years , and we have to keep this timescale in mind when planning for the future . |
| 20 | About 13% of papers submitted to us are published , and we aim to make this decision within eight weeks . |
| 21 | ‘ Now we 're the undisputed Scottish leader in crawler-cranes and we plan to use this platform to build our role in the UK and into Europe . |
| 22 | The importance of women 's safety at work can not be underestimated , and we need to pursue this issue in the workplace , in the community and at local national level . |
| 23 | Bishops Hall doing it nicely under Brad and it 's good to see him in the saddle today because he was offered the ride on Morley Street but he 'd already said yes and he 's a man of his word and he agreed to ride this horse . |
| 24 | And he longs to meet this woman 's need . |
| 25 | And in the middle of the night Boaz wakes up and he turns and he startled to find this woman , lying at his feet and he says , who are you ? |
| 26 | Here is evidence of a mind abundantly stocked with reading which the author has enjoyed — effortlessly , intelligently , and selflessly enjoyed — and he wishes to communicate this enjoyment to us . |
| 27 | That 's who Jesus is God in flesh , and he came to forgive sin and he wanted to forgive this woman her sin . |
| 28 | We could insert ‘ Christian truths ’ ( or doctrines or promises ) for ‘ Christian presuppositions ’ , but I prefer to speak this way to focus attention on what a presupposition does rather than on what it is . |
| 29 | ‘ But I want to win this race . |
| 30 | The council agreed to buy the station for — it 's about three hundred and twenty five thousand , but I want to make this point , that it is n't their intention to close the boat station . |