Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You probably do n't want to see me this morning , but I 've a good reason for being here . |
| 2 | I tried phoning you this lunchtime to ask about the above proposal , but I do n't even know if I had the right number , though I got through to it twice ; about five different people spoke to me uncomprehendingly , and eventually a man came to the phone and said ‘ Bratislava ’ ; I did n't know whether that meant I 'd got a Bratislava number , or that you 'd gone to Bratislava . |
| 3 | As for you , you 'd better come to see me this afternoon . |
| 4 | Strange , Mowbray pondered , that Adam had not come to see them this Christmas . |
| 5 | England manager Graham Taylor has given him this Saturday off to attend the wedding of his sister Anne-Marie . |
| 6 | He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue . |
| 7 | And he has given us this command : Whoever loves God must also love his brother ( 1 John 4:18–21 ) . |
| 8 | I tried to catch him this morning , before we went to our appointments , but he would n't speak to me . |
| 9 | Mr Major said Mr Patten had been ‘ the architect of of the campaign that has won us this victory … |
| 10 | Maybe the police has made me this way , but do you not see that if you 're going to come in here asking me questions about my family , if you 're going to want to know all these things , I 've got to be able to trust you ? |
| 11 | If you really want to aid us this time round , tell everyone that . |
| 12 | I suppose Bev has told you this bit . |
| 13 | But you do n't need to use them this term anyway so it 's alright . |
| 14 | We do n't need to do it this time . |
| 15 | and say to him so and so and so and so he 'd always answer back and say I want to do it this way |
| 16 | The enclosed experiments will , I doubt not , excuse this my freedom in endeavouring to give him this opportunity of becoming acquainted with you . |
| 17 | New industrializing areas attracted migrants from the south to the north ( and to South Wales ) the reverse of ‘ drift to the south ’ which has preoccupied us this century . |
| 18 | I tried to contact you this afternoon but was unable to get through . |
| 19 | Erm , then anything else I 've said today , this is really not holy writ , erm , I 'm just going to make or suggested arrangement of these dividers and if you want to keep them this way that 's fine , and if you want to do something else with them that 's also fine . |
| 20 | I tried to call you this week-end . |
| 21 | ‘ I tried to call you this morning , ’ she said , ‘ but you 'd already left . ’ |
| 22 | I phoned to invite you this morning , Guido , but of course you were n't there . ’ |
| 23 | I tried to telephone her this morning at the flat but there was no reply . |
| 24 | ‘ I tried to telephone you this morning — ’ he said . |
| 25 | Although the monk does not tell the wife where the hundred francs have come from , and creates potential trouble for her by telling the husband that he has paid her this sum , the wife in the Shipman 's Tale is quite the opposite of the foolish , deceived creature that Margery is in Dame Sirith . |
| 26 | What I want to show you this afternoon , is that the power of the child 's imagination is a factory which we have but to encourage , not to teach . |
| 27 | Erm but he 'd given me this number , Glen about Portakabins . |
| 28 | " You certainly gave him your version of how your aunt came to leave me this property , " Matthew said bitterly . |
| 29 | I suppose we thought Vic must have said try it this way because Matt and I were already into our quarrel and it shows what a pro he was to his fingertips that he carried on as per normal . |
| 30 | The ISPA plans to pay him this money later in the week but is also to discipline him . |