Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [be] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know what we want for tonight but we might go down my sister 's this afternoon so we want something easy for when we come back . |
| 2 | But what alarmed and frightened her most and had her leaping for her pen was this talk of ‘ us ’ , of Oreste and Ellen being a pair who were ‘ happy together ’ and would never come to Italy . |
| 3 | But instead of the usual payload of gravel or iron ore , its hold was this time packed with several thousand colour-coded oil drums . |
| 4 | She 's grown up in an atmosphere of decadence and disgustingness where her mother 's with her uncle and her uncle 's this lech , and people are being beheaded and crucified and tortured and murdered all around her . ’ |
| 5 | He 'll be stripping for action with Helmut or whatever his name is this week . |
| 6 | ‘ HIS racket 's this size , ’ says Lauren Hutton at Jimmy Connors ' 40th birthday bash . |
| 7 | A fair sample of his style is this retort to Brunner 's appeal to the tag gratia non tollit sed perficit naturam , ‘ grace does not destroy nature , but perfects it ’ . |
| 8 | Not until long after his death was this process commercialised . |
| 9 | What good was this love that she should never have given birth to ? |
| 10 | On what basis is this reference made ? |
| 11 | What colour is this circle ? |
| 12 | Like , what use is this research you 're doing anyway ? |
| 13 | Put into plain English , these are who is doing what for whom , and to whom are they answerable , what assumptions are being made , and in what environment is this happening ? |
| 14 | That 's what size is this piece go on say it . |
| 15 | ‘ What height is this table ? ’ he said suddenly , just as I was about to go to the breadbin for a slice to wipe my plate with . |
| 16 | Good grief , what century was this man living in ? |
| 17 | ‘ What unit was this Englishman , Sharpe ? |
| 18 | To what extent is this view substantiated by British foreign policy 1854 to 1878 ? |
| 19 | What time 's this matey turning up ? |
| 20 | June is an excellent month for marriage , Sagittarius , and if your wedding is this month it 's going to be a happy time for you both ! |
| 21 | " You all know how disrespectful your behaviour was this evening , " Tran Van Hieu said severely when he had seated himself " both to the French governor and to your parents . |