Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLEASE — look our for any potential people in YOUR classes and do encourage them to go to this day . |
| 2 | They therefore consulted their solicitor to see if it was necessary for them to remain in this country for the purpose of attending the hearing in August . |
| 3 | " He has never asked me to go at this time of night before , " she whispered . |
| 4 | Few of them recovered from this experience . |
| 5 | Again , nothing turns on this point . |
| 6 | you 'll be , you 'll be sent instructions on what , who to write to and it 's a matter of sorting those out and erm sending out letters to group members like asking them to write to this person or that person , so that 's not too bad , . |
| 7 | Some of them appear in this book , but all of them were immeasurably helpful in developing my thoughts . |
| 8 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 9 | And everyone joins in this charade with talk of them now having time to do all the things they have always wanted to do . |
| 10 | Everyone involved at this period put in time and effort far beyond what might have been predicted . |
| 11 | He has two or three bidets in his house in Beverly Hills , but he has never seen them used in this way , with gusto . |
| 12 | Nothing gilded about this youth today . |
| 13 | Erm now councillor and I asked for this matter to be brought to this chamber because erm we felt that the matter w was important enough that all members of this council should have an opportunity to debate it . |
| 14 | The Opposition replied , ’ That was 10 years ago ’ , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , whom I commend for this observation , said , that 10 years was a very long time for the Leader of the Opposition and 10 minutes was about the average length of every policy that he had put forward . |
| 15 | I gazed at this scene thinking that of all of the things I wanted when I was grown up , the one I wanted most was to play a harmonium . |
| 16 | It follows that I award for this period of care by the plaintiff 's parents the sum of fifteen thousand pounds which equates to an award of three pounds hourly for five thousand hours . |
| 17 | What did I build on this foundation ? |
| 18 | Again , I repeat with this problem of unemployment and so on , and the really obscene level of unemployment in this country at the moment — absolutely shocking I think — and I think the universities have to address themselves to that problem . |
| 19 | I mean for this market research one , we ought to finish this tonight because if she comes tomorrow |
| 20 | I mean with this exhibition that we 've booked ‘ Just the Job ’ , which is black women erm and the kind of jobs that they 've got , a large percentage are carers and erm and it is the thing that erm women feel that they can do and it erm in a way that it comes out of their role in the home , the caring role , and erm and it 's a role that they get sort of erm trapped into and it does n't pay very much money , as Brenda was saying earlier . |
| 21 | Well we were n't anyway there was very few pe , I mean at this time of the year I suppose but there was one place and it said Sunday lunch , there was a sort of black board outside , Sunday lunch erm four pound was it four fifty it was four fifty was n't it ? |
| 22 | Well this is about , I mean at this point it 's about one o'clock in the morning . |
| 23 | And yo and your er see what I mean about this area up here , I mean it 's not a bad thingy . |
| 24 | Because that 's really erm a part of what I mean by this criterion . |
| 25 | And er the diesel pumps were n't on and er there was a couple of guys putting on breathing apparatus and trying to get in to restart them , but I mean by this stage the smoke was so thick they could n't even find where the pumps were . |
| 26 | Well , not really but they have been disillusioned over the years they 've promised so much and then they 've never seemed seemed to get anywhere but I think , I honestly think they would , people would get behind them , if they could see they were going somewhere I mean like this season they seem to have fallen away yet again . |
| 27 | ‘ I realised in this day and age that people are looking for something that wee bit different , and we found with the long spell of bad weather we 've had over the summer months that people want to stay inside , ’ explained Mr Nelson . |
| 28 | And what will I earn for this work ? ’ |
| 29 | I met at this time a number of adopted children , and realised that the problems we all faced were similar , whatever the child 's colour happened to be . |
| 30 | I agreed to this trip because of that . |