Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 O God give me the strength to be victorious over myself , for nothing may chain me to this life .
2 If it is directed to his particular case , the Home Secretary should disregard it at this stage unless it was evidence at the trial ; if directed to penal policy in general , it is merely a small part of his information as to public opinion .
3 David and Angela came along to see it and David said , ‘ I must introduce you to this guy Tony DeFries who is going to be my manager , and I think you should meet him too . ’
4 Of course , I should expect them in this house .
5 Oh , and incidentally , I must tell you at this point that his pre-birth environment was most carefully handled .
6 I must get him alongside this time , he thought .
7 But cold reality was but a split second away , and Leith went swiftly from dream world to fury that he should involve her in this sham .
8 I 'll keep it in this tin in this draw .
9 I 'll call you on this number at nine and tell you where .
10 I 'll leave you with this summary .
11 I 'll be all right in a minute ’ , and then she goes , ‘ I 'll let you off this time ’ , and then I did it again — a really loud one , and she goes , ‘ Fay , you 're going to have to go to the Headmistress ’ , she goes …
12 We need an effective independent regulator , not the mafia regulating mafia and saying it 's quite understandable boy , we 'll let you off this time which is what happens now er with the Institute of Chartered Accountants er as a recognised supervisory body er in this er in this particular field .
13 He let us off he said you two are supposed to get a late mark but I 'll let you off this time three and we 've got a detention .
14 I 'll put it in this side .
15 If you do n't plan , you 'll get stressed out , you wo n't be running your business properly , it causes stress , it 'll kill you it may not physically kill you , but it 'll kill you in this business .
16 ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’
17 I said I 'd bring it in this week .
18 For example , if it was important to distinguish between a high level and low level tone for English we could do it in this way :
19 because the editor picks it up and say ‘ I can use that because I can see an angle , I could use it in this way or that way or ,
20 ‘ Maybe we could suspend them from this bit in the middle with a length of thread , ’ Norris grunted , sticking his head almost right inside the appliance .
21 It 's like all good things to come , I do n't like to count my chickens , so I 'd rather not , not the little memorandums say , oh you 've got another X million , if only we could take them in this year .
22 ‘ I could take you to this Hotel Ritz you have spoken of , ’ he suggested .
23 Well I phoned them and said , I thought I 'd leave it till this morning .
24 So I thought I 'd tell you about this bit of niceness — and no , there 's not a free Bettencourt signature model in it for me .
25 So anyway yesterday afternoon I was checking through it when the phone went again to ask about the washing machine and I was looking through the paper to see whether , and they 'd put it in this week !
26 Perhaps you could adopt ours on this occasion .
27 I think we could let her off this time .
28 The Princess had spotlights , he 'd turn them around this way when it was time to get Sandy to the door and then he 'd go back on his own to switch them off .
29 Bertha had looked at her in thoughtful silence for several long moments before she 'd said , ‘ Dear Lucy — I believe you could help me in this affair . ’
30 Some months ago a gang of local youngsters asked if I could help them in this direction .
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