Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I mean , once I get this analysis out of the way things might — ’ She stopped again as Luke appeared in the doorway . |
| 32 | But you see once I get this over Marg , the worst 'll be over . |
| 33 | Once I did this without looking where I was going and went straight into the backs of nine armourers who were ambling towards the Mess for supper , and had to be disentangled from my machine , picked up and dusted off , which they did with all the gleeful enthusiasm which Thursby reserved for drawing his heavy black frontal lines on our neatly drawn charts . |
| 34 | Once I did this under the eye of a policeman who nabbed me for parking on a yellow line when I emerged from the bank a few minutes later . |
| 35 | Even his appearance annoyed Benny , although she knew this was unreasonable . |
| 36 | She had not shared anything about what the Lord had said to her back home , so she feels this to be a confirmation about the work the Lord wants her to do . |
| 37 | The first time we went , Marie wore her bra and knickers , but she was told off for that , so she bought this real nice swimming costume . |
| 38 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 39 | You held your hand still on the page and you traced around each finger , and all the little contours of your finger joints were captured , and you would go around a few times , and each time the pencil was at a slightly different angle , so you got this aura of your hand , that was so much more accurate than you could ever draw , and all you had to do was put in the fingernails and the little wrinkles on the backs of your fingers and you really had something ? |
| 40 | Do you do , I 'm just asking , I 'm not sure , do you do them where you 've got erm so you got this , th the big one |
| 41 | sending their mail to erm Body Shop er , they 'd been grooming their nails because they 've heard that the Body shops , in the paper the other day erm are paying ten pounds per nail if your nail 's an inch long , you know , so you cut this talon off if it 's an inch long and they had loads and loads of them sent in envelopes or people just ringing up and asking can we send our nail , ten pound a nail and they said , where the rumour started from these people had heard that because they do n't do erm experiments on animals any more they 're using nails to do experiments , the nail polish and that |
| 42 | They 're too embarrassed to actually part with them and so you have this very difficult decision as to whether to insist that you have their laundry or whether you allow them to go on doing that , causing them to live in a smelly environment . |
| 43 | ‘ So you have this aunt in Ambleside you 're going to visit ? ’ |
| 44 | Right , so you cross this out and now you 've got to look for another word |
| 45 | Something told her that once she let this irrepressible man weave his way into the fabric of her life it would be almost impossible to get rid of him . |
| 46 | Once you use this approach regularly it is surprising how often you catch yourself doing the tasks which feel immediately rewarding rather than those which are essential . |
| 47 | ‘ Once you sign this contract , we 're committed to you — and you to us . ’ |
| 48 | Once you know this , you can establish a goal or a series of goals which will then give you a purpose for your studies . |
| 49 | Yeah once you find this Nettos you wan na go because it is cheap . |
| 50 | Method This clearly depends on the order and the cards should be set up as follows : Once you have this order the trick is self-working . |
| 51 | Once you have this , you have an audit . |
| 52 | Once you realize this you can start treating it like any other interview , and apply the same ground rules . |
| 53 | This is the mental adjustment that has to be made at Verdon — you start your route with several hundred metres already below you , but once you rationalise this it 's just a steep , very solid crag ! |
| 54 | There is a skill in coping with real life software and once you realise this fact you can start to live with your computer in something a little closer to harmony ! |
| 55 | So although we know this today , very few people knew it in nineteen thirteen , and er , nobody knew it before the turn of the century . |
| 56 | The point is not that we in any way deliberately do down the intelligence of animals — although we do this as well — but that it is hard for us to imagine the workings of forms of intelligence that have evolved to cope with environmental circumstances different from our own . |
| 57 | we are , we are encouraging the rich peasant , I mean we want you to settle down and become rich and , although we have this ultimate aim of socialization , collectivization , we 've got to industrialize first and that , that is a long time off . |
| 58 | A small group of professionals , myself included , selected those books which we believed should be saved at all costs but , although we did this as conscientiously as possible , our combined subject knowledge was at best partial and it is inevitable that some books worthy of preservation were overlooked … |
| 59 | Although we consider this dictionary as a respectable edition , the definition of the Gompertz-Makeham law is not correct there . |
| 60 | ‘ Anyway , ’ Miss Rene continued , ‘ immediately we saw this we knew it was of the highest quality . |