Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 2 | She 's got to hand them in to this lady on Tuesday . |
| 3 | ‘ Let me in on this mystery that surrounds Corosini . |
| 4 | I just remember them wheeling me down to this room and going to sleep . |
| 5 | My start was beginning to let me down around this time — Ron and I were concentrating more on my pick-up — but I had the satisfaction of beating Calvin Smith quite comfortably . |
| 6 | All you have to do is lower me down in this bucket to just above the sea . |
| 7 | Well it seems like that 's hoping for pie in the sky , though , because there 's first of all not enough money , and I do n't think that teachers are that good at well talking about their own emotions , and I asked the Oxfordshire County Council Education Department to send someone along to this programme , and they said ‘ I 'm sorry , there 's no-one to send ’ . |
| 8 | Reverting to the situation we find ourselves in at this moment , there are four facts that can be regarded as certainties or near-certainties . |
| 9 | We 'll cook somethin' up from this end . |
| 10 | I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point . |
| 11 | He seems to be saying that we should open ourselves up to this possibility , and that if we do not do so , we may miss something that may ultimately be much more important to us than all that science is able to capture in its net . |
| 12 | Doug Cantwell , chairman of West Wiltshire Conservatives , said yesterday : ‘ We have to do our best to pull ourselves out of this recession and tighten our belts . |
| 13 | Steven put me through to this Gwyllam |
| 14 | This is Piladu 's place , but if you ask me there 'll be nobody in at this hour on a Saturday . |
| 15 | There 'll be nobody in at this hour ! ’ he repeated loudly , to the men behind as he got down from the jeep . |
| 16 | This scheme , which was the first which opened up the riverside in Leeds , an area which up to this time had been ignored and declining for 100 years , led the way for the mass of development which has since followed . |
| 17 | ( A few years later he was to complain about Eden wearing himself out by this frivolity . ) |
| 18 | And Gershwin 's ‘ Rhapsody ’ , the one that had started them off on this road together . |
| 19 | ‘ I told the police I would take them off in this country , but that I could n't give confirmation I would n't use them abroad . ’ |
| 20 | The embarrassment made me postpone going to the clinics for weeks — until the last possible moment , in fact : the day before I was due to board the train that bore me off to this hotel room in Manchester . |
| 21 | Is that what put you on to this business of writing about old houses ? ’ |
| 22 | Denis , great Atlanticist , a man with a vivid war experience , former defence secretary , it 's an unlikely position to find you in over this war , is n't it ? |
| 23 | Or are you in on this aspect as well ? ’ |
| 24 | They 'll certainly let you in after this performance , " the Magistrate had said ironically as Mr Bradley made one or two more last-minute arrangements with Saint Peter for the opening of the celestial gates . |
| 25 | But they 're all going to wonder why I dragged you along at this time of night . |
| 26 | ‘ You come a step farther up that ladder and I 'll run you through with this fork . ’ |
| 27 | And if you are fairly okay then we 'll probably say well we 'll sign you off at this stage anyway . |
| 28 | ‘ She has some scheme in mind to marry you off to this man Quatt . ’ |
| 29 | Where are you off to this time ? |
| 30 | ‘ But something else must have started you off on this search . |