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

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1 That is , we initially categorise them as this or that type of person and interpret or distort subsequent information to confirm that s/he is this type of person .
2 That 's right it 's this window .
3 Oh you 're alright in this part , it 's this part is it , that part ?
4 It 's this fall , this unseating of our lofty conception of ourselves ( as conscious , self-determining spirits ) that Butthole Surfers love to induce : hence the fascination with surgery ( exposing the meat and muck out of which we 're made ) , with lapses into the unreason of psychosis or perversion .
5 I think it 's this weekend that we go to the fire station .
6 It 's this weekend that they go forward .
7 I do n't know whether it 's this weekend
8 However , it 's the notes in the former chord which by intervallic interchange become chromatic notes in the latter chord , and it 's this approach which produces the most effective results .
9 And it 's this approach which is a key the scheme 's success .
10 So she said that big girl ! oh I think I 'm getting it so I said , but I know you used to talk about it , and I said here we go ! and her I did n't know the others , but Tom said one of the other things is a it 's this girl , but I said no she 's got a and then she said and I , and I thought that 's a big , I did n't know !
11 all going out for a Chinese because it 's this girl 's birthday tomorrow , so there 's er eight of them all going out .
12 I know , I think after Christmas I 'm gon na go and have a look for some dresses and you see when it was an ordinary colour I was gon na have ivory but now it 's this colour I think i 'll be better having having white , I do n't know .
13 It 's this question of different beliefs and different loyalties , ’ said Snodgrass .
14 Women still , on the whole , have to achieve more than men to get to the same level in certain ways , but I think basically it 's this question of choice .
15 It 's this trip , I keep blaming myself I keep asking myself how I ever let myself get dragged into it ,
16 It 's this year 's reg. — It 's not the car I 'd go for , mind .
17 actually caught with , I think he was just starting on that when Mike come down , er but , he got it out this magazine rack because it was at the back of there I put it , cos it 's this year 's the others I 've got upstairs in a drawer
18 If ever a man deserves an honour from his country , it 's this man . ’
19 I feel that it shows itself in the contrast between the child 's — we 're talking about children for the moment , although obviously there are dyslexic adults — it shows itself in the contrast between the person 's ability to express him or herself in words and their ability to put it down on paper and to read it off paper , and it 's this contrast which often arouses one 's suspicions that there might be some problem and , having gone into it a little , we find that it stems from a failure of the sensory motor system — the brain is n't processing the information it 's receiving through the ear and eye .
20 It 's this afternoon .
21 It 's this dream which prompted Rita to leave her Caribbean home for Canada six years ago .
22 We can change the terminology , we can give it different words , we can talk about making a commitment to Christ , we can talk about salvation , we can talk about conversion , the word , they 're not the important thing it 's this act of a new birth of receiving God in Christ for ourselves , believing that he died for us and are receiving this new life .
23 So it 's this kind of vague offstage ‘ others ’ who seem to have the power in that case .
24 It 's this shoulder stuffed up again .
25 So it 's this idea of capturing animals , a poem is like a wild animal and if you really conjure it up carefully .
26 Wonder if it 's this road surf- there 's a feeling a bit of vibration on the steering then .
27 It 's this sense of proportion is n't it ?
28 I tell you , it 's this wall
29 And it 's this journey from external reality to the profound truths of art , a journey which takes Proust through a series of investigations of the nature of time , the nature of the intellect , the nature of memory , it 's this journey which I must now attempt to trace , and I perhaps just ought to say that I think I get abstract once or twice from this point onwards .
30 And it 's this journey from external reality to the profound truths of art , a journey which takes Proust through a series of investigations of the nature of time , the nature of the intellect , the nature of memory , it 's this journey which I must now attempt to trace , and I perhaps just ought to say that I think I get abstract once or twice from this point onwards .
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