Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | My erm , when I was little , I used to have this reoccuring dream , and it was really , really scary , and I just , I used to get really scared , I did n't want to go to sleep , in case I had this reoccuring dream , and what it was , was erm , I do n't know , I , I think I did n't like swimming when I was little , so that might , what sparked it off , and I could n't swim for ages |
| 2 | Of course I had this spell er er do n't forget I was five years as a prisoner of war , and a lot of interest because I was a union member pra b previous to that you see ? |
| 3 | By a coincidence I met this man on the summit of Sergeant Man in the Lake District two months later . |
| 4 | This tendency to catch and pull happens most often when approaching the workpiece , but with experience I found this can be avoided easily by working against the rotation . |
| 5 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 6 | Well I think he 's at my other school before common entrance I had this teacher for two years got forty percent and that 's . |
| 7 | In the semi-final they meet James Talbot and Michael Nutt of the Old Bleach Club , who will be seeking to gain some compensation after they were in the Old Bleach side which lost this season 's CIS Irish Senior Cup championship final to Carrickfergus by a mere five shots . |
| 8 | Top : Harrowside 1984 with restored Coronation 660 on tour , followed by a one-man car which succeeded this type . |
| 9 | ( Moses , the great founder and lawgiver of the nation , had a speech impediment which necessitated this . |
| 10 | In part it was geography which made this possible . |
| 11 | A tradition of language study which neglected this , as nineteenth-century philology did , failed to account for the real nature of its object . |
| 12 | The military confrontation which represented this world order has to be viewed not as deterrence but as imaginary war . |
| 13 | The fiery and provocative pontificate of Pope Gregory VII may well have inspired the search which brought this manuscript to light . |
| 14 | It is the last leg of an interview marathon which began this summer , when Cooltempo , anticipating an earlier release for the record , flew a plane-load of Britain 's music press out to meet her in New York . |
| 15 | The polls before the 1970 election may have registered broad support for Labour but as the election result itself showed this support was conditional and unreliable . |
| 16 | Indeed , it seems that a hearer who interpreted this utterance as conveying a specific proposition or set of propositions would miss out on much of its intended relevance . |
| 17 | I seem to recall being the culprit who caused this trouble . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ They have the same basic EQ as a humbucker , so you can get that really crunchy sort of distortion , but we also found that when you linked them up to a Fender-style five-way switch they had this amazing ability to clean up , like a Strat , in the in-between positions . |
| 19 | Japan this cou did this country er good , even though they bombed er Pearl Harbour they did this country a good a good what 's it shall we say |
| 20 | When pressed by Jeremy Corbyn ( Labour ) about the department 's perceived shift towards means-testing and away from the universality he replied this was expected as the Labour party was also re-examining its commitment to universality — as John Smith has said ‘ nothing was ruled out and nothing was ruled in ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I suggest you go to some holy place , preferably out of the City , and pray for forgiveness for the levity which started this business . ’ |
| 22 | Expand that up , you 'll end up with a normal inner leaflet to the membrane , a phospholipids but the outer the , er the outer layer is almost exclusively composed of this stuff , lycropolysacrulite I mentioned this in an earlier lecture but we need to go into in a little bit more detail . |
| 23 | And I said oh he 's at home I said this week I said and that oh and she said well tell him to get over here and we 'll sort him out . |
| 24 | That 's the question I asked this morning , Why was n't it you know , why were n't we doing it ? |
| 25 | The Ayrshire MPs were in Prestwick before returning south for the new parliamentary session which began this afternoon . |
| 26 | In 1914 the Board of Education initiated a new Education ( Provision of Meals ) Act which made this provision compulsory for all local authorities , provided an Exchequer subsidy , authorized feeding during school holidays and left the determination of need to the school medical officers who were to assess need purely on grounds of health rather than of parental income . |
| 27 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 28 | The fundamental issue which underlay this conflict between rationalism and orthodoxy was not merely the factual question whether or not ‘ what the Bible says is true ’ . |
| 29 | The peace which ended this episode was not concluded until 1669 . |
| 30 | The ‘ oohs ’ and ‘ ahs ’ of reverence which greeted this would have been the envy of any priest or preacher . |