Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't spoken to erm , I mean I only thought this coming along in the street , whether there 's anybody sort of notable , I mean is it , is , is , is there any value in actually having a figurehead type chairman you know , sort of celebrity type |
| 2 | Well do you know I never knew this I was recently hit by a car and , although not seriously hurt , I did go to casualty to have some cuts cleaned and an X-ray taken to check I had n't broken my ankle . |
| 3 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 4 | We found a very nice you know we once had this push up horse , we now found a push up doll which is sort of quite nicely coloured and this little spinning top which I think is quite nice . |
| 5 | They were they were asking for them to make more slates for for less money and they were n't prepared to sit down and really talk it through with the men they just treated you know they just had this awful attitude |
| 6 | ‘ You know he never harmed this poor shepherd lad . |
| 7 | I told my father I was trying to get them over to the far side , to the mainland , and that the ones I had to bury , the ones which fell short , were victims of scientific research , but I doubt I really needed this excuse , my father never seemed bothered about the suffering of lower forms of life , despite having been a hippy , and perhaps because of his medical training . |
| 8 | ‘ And do you realise you nearly wrecked this conference for me ? |
| 9 | The blackbirds that saw it quickly treated this bird as though it were potentially dangerous and mobbed it , even when their fellows could not see the owl and so were making no noise . |
| 10 | I knew he now realized this was serious , but I was not sure I had got through to him how serious . |
| 11 | The tradesman who put him there knew this , and hoped that by being removed to such unfamiliar and unpleasant surroundings his debtor would soon see the sense of agreeing to do what would immediately return him to the comparative comfort of his own home , namely to surrender , in settlement of his debt , the real estate which the law did not allow the trader to touch . |
| 12 | ‘ I think they only knew this morning , and you 've been so busy being cross — ’ |
| 13 | Now mind , do n't say I ever mentioned this . |
| 14 | It 's as good a theory as any to explain it , because lord knows I never intended this to be anything other than a business arrangement . ’ |