Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ His best attempt at negotiating the distance between admiration of the poetry and dislike for the individual who created it is this metaphor , in his introduction : ‘ When he found his authentic voice in the late 1940s , the beautiful flowers of his poetry were already growing on long stalks out of pretty dismal ground ’ — a botanical conceit designed to leave Larkin soiled , but the poetry ready for picking . |
| 2 | ‘ I do not know what is this action you refer to . ’ |
| 3 | Anyway she left twelve pence on the floor and Gary says whose is this money , said you leave it there , it 's for Enid 's no nobody touch this chuffing twelve pence . |
| 4 | She left twelve pence on the floor and Bill put it in the cubby hole in the fireplace and Gary says whose is this money and Arthur was going to pick it up an'all , he says leave that he says that 's for Enid 's money . |
| 5 | Mr Sullivan says it was this incident that prompted him to stage the break in . |
| 6 | So he put it in shed , left it in shed for a while and then it were not last year the year before , he took it down , I 'm putting this in dustbin duck he says it 's no damn good , we went on holiday and me daughter 's boyfriend came down while we were away and er , he must of been looking in dustbin he says what 's this telly doing , our Mandy said it 's no good , me dad 's slinging it out , so he took it home and fixed it , it 's been going ever since |
| 7 | as well , had a little do with a little boy called Shane , he decided he wanted to come into the story with a , in his blue car , I explained that on the day of the choose he could either come in and have a story or he was to play with the blue car outside , well he had a fit , he 's rattling the door , anyway , I did n't realize there was this childminder that he had with him not er his mum , cos she came and had her sort of say and things |
| 8 | He conducted sermons , and met many Nez Perce headmen , including Tuekakas , of whom he wrote : ‘ If there is one among this multitude who it may be hoped has been everlastingly benefitted by the gospel , I should believe it is this man ’ . |
| 9 | And er you know there is this attitude that nature it has been said nature is untidy well nature by its very definition is untidy . |
| 10 | I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine . |
| 11 | Andy : ‘ Like there was this man I know in Ireland who swears this story is true . |
| 12 | I mean , if , it 's crippling us is this place ! |
| 13 | I mean there 's this line |
| 14 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 15 | because for eighteen months I mean there was this sledgehammer and all you could hear was boom , boom |
| 16 | I mean I said to her today I mean there was this costume there and I said here get that one there I said french maid outfit , nurse 's outfit . |
| 17 | After I got there was this lorry chasing me , and I was always running |
| 18 | But there was a big loss of life as well , but what frightened me was this Germans coming over on Peedie bits of rafts and the men swimming in the sea and whatnot |
| 19 | But when she realized her son did not appreciate who was this doyenne of New York fashion she said out loud : ‘ Oh David , I can see you do n't know who Gloria Vanderbilt is , do you ? ’ |
| 20 | I find it 's this flexibility that I use most . |
| 21 | I do n't see myself , but I 'm sure I strange man might wonder what is this woman ? |
| 22 | Since she does n't respond to my telling her to relax I ask who is this landlord anyway and has she got a rent book ? |
| 23 | He felt it was this type of blanket discrimination against West Belfast which the legislation fails to address and any serious attempt to end discrimination must contain positive discrimination and quotas . |
| 24 | I bet it 's this lot who come to it . |
| 25 | I bet it 's this family 's here . |
| 26 | on , I thought it was this week but it is n't it 's the seventeenth , so I rang Steve and he said I better . |
| 27 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 28 | I fucking come back and try and put something and go what is this man ? |
| 29 | But I do not think it is this threat alone which explains the sick feeling of dread — rather like the feeling of a man who knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight — which clouds the prospect of a Labour victory . |
| 30 | Erm he makes a distinction between poor peasants , some being utterly destitute and some just being less destitute but er basically as er seventy percent of the population erm they 're the main group that 's pushing revolution forward and s so therefore I mean it 's this group that the Communist Party must n't alienate , you know , they mu must n't do anything to harm this group , associations the Communist Party must n't attack erm the associations . |