Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] on this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason we built it on this particular spot is this is the ash flurry from the boilers from the bottom there of the er power station and er it 's contents of slurry dried out , dried out and graded , well once nice and flat like this it gives the bird an ideal opportunity to at high tide and they can see around , there 's no vegetation , it 's very bad ground , and er , that is load of ducks , a good numbers of er oystercatchers , they do n't sometimes , which is really nice and so easy to count them now cos when the tide is out and you 've got the , the mud flats of course they 're spread out , now they 're nicely condensed down here , so it 's great , great little position for us you know , that 's all courtesy of the bottom of the boiler , you know , you know , give us this nice |
| 2 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 3 | Although the ministers were too polite to commit themselves , even when I pressed them on this point , it was clear to me that they felt they , and their church , had been used . |
| 4 | Carl started me on this , he was into carrot cake for years and |
| 5 | And she actually took me on this war work . |
| 6 | ‘ We brought him on this tour so he could develop , and I believe he could be the player to hold England 's batting together for the next ten years . ’ |
| 7 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 8 | The jury , however , convicted him on this count , and he was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment on each count to run concurrently . |
| 9 | ‘ Mother put me on this awful diet . |
| 10 | ‘ It was to have children that Allah put her on this earth . |
| 11 | We had it on this procedure , already . |
| 12 | You never had it on this morning ? |
| 13 | I had mine on this morning and er but she was out anyway . |
| 14 | That 's the reason I wanted you on this . ’ |