Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely in a sense you 're unfair , for example , to the gifted children by putting them through this mode . |
| 2 | These are the new rate books , we 've literally only had them through this week . |
| 3 | Mm , mm and no , I dropped them off this morning , that 's it , he 's picking them up |
| 4 | They begged him to let them off this time , but he rang back hour after hour , day , after day : " Sell your car . |
| 5 | If I am working on pupil autonomy , then I have to find some way to remind pupils that it often helps to talk out loud to someone , and to establish an atmosphere in which they readily approach each other and me for this purpose . |
| 6 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 7 | How many men are you going to give me for this work ? ’ |
| 8 | On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example . |
| 9 | He wrote it and handed it to me for this newsletter and I ran out of space . |
| 10 | I was very nervous , and I found myself coming on very strong and direct with her , and saying , ‘ I liked Rosemary 's Baby , but the picture bothered me for this reason … |
| 11 | a nonsense to me for this reason , that there is in society the payers of wages and the receivers of wages . |
| 12 | I had had a week in this quiet place in which to relax and order my thoughts — a week of peace to sustain me for this encounter , not to mention a good meal and a half-bottle of wine just consumed . |
| 13 | She paid me for this week and she said well I you 've got ninety pound here |
| 14 | You owe me for this candy , the mother . |
| 15 | ‘ My lord and father , blame me for this interruption , not the courier . |
| 16 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 17 | Young people who have been caught in this trap have had no information given to them about this change and can not avail themselves of the choice of training like colleagues born on or before July 1 . |
| 18 | They 've had a very busy summer in the Admissions Office , but now the new academic year is underway , I 've invited them into the studio to ask them about this year 's admissions . |
| 19 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 20 | When a colleague discovered that I was coming here to do this er she saw it as laughable and she also saw it as something that I would prefer to keep quiet from my colleagues and tried a bit of moral blackmail on me as well to say I 'm going to tell them about that if you do n't them about this sort of thing . |
| 21 | ‘ Whatever you do , do n't tell them about this lot . ’ |
| 22 | Just tell them about this product , what it can do , and I assure you of the results . |
| 23 | Tony 's mother had made them for this occasion , and though recipes vary slightly the end result is a large currant biscuit . |
| 24 | At the end of this term , the Ayton School choir goes to Coventry Cathedral and Mr Essex , who will sing there with them , is currently rehearsing them for this occasion . |
| 25 | The point is not that companies are ideal mechanisms for making decisions which have important social effects ( in the sense that we would choose them for this purpose other considerations being equal ) . |
| 26 | I note that now they have offered to construct a footway along this small section if you will dedicate the land to them for this purpose . |
| 27 | The second is that it is not the right allocation of available resources to use them for this patient . |
| 28 | For that matter , now that I see them for this moment so clearly , what has Hugh to do with the king , either ? |
| 29 | The attempt in the Treaty to reorganize the Balkans as a stable structure of national states appealed to them for this reason . |
| 30 | Oxfam sell Crakapax ( they have ordered them for this Christmas and are waiting for deliveries ) which contain pre-cut cracker shapes in metallic foil . |