Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] this [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Anyhow I went out and I got this baby nest shawl thing
2 Thing is it is healthier and I mean this tablet lark now more I 'm thinking about it , right
3 I just bi I went outside , I mean , I was gon na go outside five minutes before and not notice anything , and I went out five minutes later and I heard this water running .
4 Ah um I , I had spaghetti bolognaise and er I ha , and I had this cheese thing last night .
5 There was a travel agency in the foyer as you came in and a girl called Dinxie and I ran this travel agency that was open during licensing hours .
6 ‘ If you want to create a certain density with a guitar you record one instrument with three mics and you get this wonderfull stereo spread .
7 And he said , here 's a cab , and you tell this cab driver where you want to go .
8 And you open this cupboard door You can tell there 's a step at the bottom .
9 And you attached this quarter pound of to it then you hoisted it back up and there was a clock in the light room which struck every five minutes and every time the clock struck you fired the charge .
10 Rochers town , we were only a short way and we went to this house , we were only young coppers , and we had this friend call on us and we looked out , he was going back into the car and he looked down the street and he said , my God there 's an awful lot of children around here , they must do nothing but screw all the time
11 Anyway , they all came in and we had this instant party which was very pleasant .
12 Right okay so that 's why it 's important that we get I mean if we just got one neutron out then theoretically you could sustain a chain reaction , but in practice it would be absorbed , it would n't they would n't all hit , some of them would miss , but as long as we can get on average about one , of those three , hitting another one , we can keep it going , and we get this chain reaction going and th the heat really builds up then , and that 's what they use in a a nuclear reaction reactor .
13 Oh very good , yes , aha , so er Jim 's been very busy with his talks and different things and er we packed in , you know , after Christmas cos we both worked and we thought we 'd have it , you know , and we caught this flu bug and
14 ‘ It was the last Formula Three race of the season and we gave this Brazilian Ayrton Senna da Silva a drive , ’ he said .
15 And they use this role play to explore their interests and their concerns ; in similar ways and for similar purposes to the way we use drama — to explore and develop their understanding of the world .
16 a Tobby and they do this body camping , they have to do it early in the morning or late at night when it 's cool and it produces this liquid which verbella it 's already fermenting and at this
17 And they are erm a very go ahead company ; they 're young and they have this maverick style , which they think we can erm come into quite reasonably well .
18 and he got this job lot of perfume , and he said oh I can shot these out over the next few years , I said , oh if you really want to .
19 ‘ Well , it 's Mel Gibson and he hits this turbo drive and this car just takes off .
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