Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if time had lost all meaning , as if even that were conspiring to hasten him to this place where he would spend the rest of his life . |
| 2 | We had been looking forward rather to this little drive between East and West Tarbert , but our greatest pleasure was when we stepped safely down at the pier where the little Islay steamer " Fingal " was waiting to carry us to this island of Jura . |
| 3 | Not going to tackle him about this business of Dora 's golf-club , are you ? ’ |
| 4 | How many men are you going to give me for this work ? ’ |
| 5 | But what I was going to tell you about this loan and I was there on this Friday morning when we were drawing our money , and the men were bringing their their s life savings to lend to the union . |
| 6 | Now I want at least , to intro introduce the possibility in the series of diagrams I 'm going to show you in this lecture that we can relate it to the four stages of pathogenesis that we , we outline briefly er , in the last lecture . |
| 7 | Even taking into account the fact that you 're dead , really … ask yourself , if I asked you straight off — I 'm going to stuff you in this box now , would you rather be alive or dead ? |
| 8 | In a sane world , I thought , we would have discussed the state of my feelings , debated whether I loved Syl sufficiently to commit the rest of my life to him , questioned my views on the institution of marriage , examined my mother 's motives in striving to introduce me into this state , have said something of some interest . |
| 9 | Its owner , Okan Guney , has been trying to breed them at this home in Kidlington for two years . |
| 10 | ‘ What were you trying to teach me in this Lord ? ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps there were good reasons for trying to outwit him in this way ? |
| 12 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |