Example sentences of "this [noun] [pron] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel .
2 For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men .
3 ‘ But this afternoon we 're going to the shops .
4 This afternoon I am going to a memorial service for a woman who devoted her whole life to caring for others .
5 Okay , erm , this bit we 're going through is the work organiser .
6 For at this level we are dealing with underlying causes , rather than immediate effects .
7 Use the stand alone system so it gets the date that we 're going to collect it , it can say all the things that we 've said , it 's , you know , we wrote to you some time ago and , and er we , we did n't get the money if you do n't , as you said , if you do n't send us this money we 're gon na sounds like a threat does n't it , if you do n't send this money within the next three months we 'll automatically collect it together with your regular premium due on the date
8 Could you be one of the owners of this cottage they 're talking about ? ’
9 What is this quiz we 're gon na have then ?
10 In this chapter we are dealing with a set of phenomena for which there is not a clearly identified name and which therefore presents different faces in different theories .
11 Well if Steve goes for this interview he 's working till , he 'll not be in till half past eight because he says all that week he can gain four hours work because erm he 's found out you do n't have to finish after two hours , you can work as much you like , finish at ten o'clock at night if you want .
12 In this condition we are talking of a with reserve VFR range of 550 nm at 75% power or 630 nm at 65% .
13 Must be this wedding you 're going to tomorrow .
14 WHO IS ‘ Ian Cheek ’ and what 's all this crap he is writing about All ( Sounds October 27 ) ?
15 WHO IS ‘ Ian Cheek ’ and what 's all this crap he is writing about All ( Sounds October 27 ) ?
16 When I was very young — about 5 years old — I wanted to be a pilot because I had this girlfriend who was going to be a stewardess .
17 When Carole finishes when Carole finishes in this session I 'm gon na go and have a chat with her .
18 They just grabbed this bloke who 's standing outside the music area , thinking he might be a musician and he is n't , but it does n't matter .
19 In this dream I was standing by a river watching a man in swimming trunks caught in the downward surge of a waterfall or weir .
20 Last year at about this time it produced the admirable Victorian Newcastle painter Ralph Hedley ; this winter it is showing in ‘ A Romance with the North East ’ Rober and Isa ( Thompson ) Jobling , who lived and worked there until the 1920s producing powerful and poetic images of its countryside coast and people .
21 There could be no Durkheimian solution to such ills , for Freud 's model of man-in-society included the idea of instinctual gratification and repression , and it is this dimension which is lacking in Durkheim 's thought .
22 AT THIS moment what was happening in the outside world , for a cultural climate is never separate from events ?
23 What 's more , Charity , I 've seen this actor you were talking about .
24 It was unfortunate that at this period he was going through a protracted quarrel-by-letter with her and was generally grumpy and morose , especially if he had recently received one of her periodic letters informing him that it was ALL OFF !
25 This place we 're going to , it 's in Mariánské Láznë ? ’ she thought she should enquire , since it seemed they would not be walking to this lunchtime venue .
26 Oh , that too erm that we are , had , if we are saying that this evening we are looking at communications and different elements of it , I think this is an area which if ever there was an example of how perhaps not to do it how to blow it askew , it 's probably the best one we 've had in , in decades .
27 This evening she was hiding behind a pile of rush mats and baskets in the shed at the back of the cottage .
28 This Richmond we were talking about .
29 It is this era which is drawing to a close and , with it , the peculiar mixture of promise and peril which long characterised Soviet life .
30 All the same , I ca n't help feeling a little anxious about this relish he is revealing for anarchy .
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