Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] this [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Parsons got me this job and I used to sit up there and answer the phones . ’ |
| 2 | No I could n't I mean , and these people are Jehovah Witnesses who sold me this house and my feelings about the commercial probity of Jehovah Witnesses are that they have n't any commercial probity . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've given them this number and they 're going to test the line and call me back , ’ she said when Iris came in from the garden . |
| 4 | and I used them this year and they er I 've got quite a lot of Right furry I was er hoping to get I do n't think these 'll come out somehow . |
| 5 | I 'm gon na need it this week and or next Saturday cos I 'm in in the morning , and I 'm getting I think I 'm gon na get boots as well . |
| 6 | He hung there for a second before slithering sideways , and as he slipped towards the ground the seladang hooked blindly at his body , knocking it this way and that , until one of its long horns caught and held . |
| 7 | But there again er it was the time we lived in and you had certain Well yards had their own way of trying to keep track of when a guy was in a toilet etcetera and sometimes you would have to hand in y your er your time ticket , to the toilet attendant , and you would give him this ticket and he would say right you are , you know , and mark down your number on a book and say to you , well you 've got seven minutes or something you know . |
| 8 | And he 'd got a boy who did stutter and he always used to go to granddad before er he when he came to school , before lessons and he 'd give him this pebble and he 'd say , now you can put it in your pocket . |
| 9 | He put some very special old wine on the table in front of the King and said , ‘ Duke Michael offers you this wine and asks you to drink it for love of him . ’ |
| 10 | So know that , if you now refer back to the , the book that I 've given you this morning and if you turn to where it says okay it says stop here do not read on |
| 11 | And then I could add them together , or if that 's a bit awkward , what I could do is I could think of the hundred and one as a hundred add one , I can think of the seventeen as ten add seven , and then I multiply them this way and I multiply all the bits and then add all the bits up at the end . |
| 12 | I remember one instance , after we had been making love , when he took my hands very tenderly and turned them this way and that , pressing them gently , kissing the palms and the wrists . |
| 13 | She turned them this way and that , selecting four perfect specimens , which she put on the seat between herself and Nora . |
| 14 | I shall ring you this week and we 'll have — what ? |
| 15 | Her mother held her at arm 's length and examined her like a piece of merchandise , turning her this way and that , searching for concealed flaws . |
| 16 | The moon called to her , she thought , pulling her this way and that . |
| 17 | John did not want to see a doctor , but they overrode him this morning and had the quack in . |
| 18 | In fact , the Gallery has extended the show 's run to eight months so that school children can see it this autumn and has moved the scheduled second venue , Detroit , to the end of the tour . |
| 19 | He sat for hours staring into a hand mirror , tilting it this way and that and bending his head . |
| 20 | That was the way his mind worked ; he would be struck by a sentence or a phrase , then he would worry at it , turning it this way and that . |
| 21 | Full of hatred and Greek yoghurt she pushed and pulled at Otley sending him this way and that . |
| 22 | I was going to do it this morning and bring and for the box that they have the old prayer I think going up to Yugoslavia soon |
| 23 | Right I 'll read you this piece and you 'll have to forgive my facsimile of a Herts. accent . |
| 24 | And er , it went wrong so she took her daughter 's out of her bedroom and using hers and when our John came down she were telling about it so he said oh I 'll take it this Sunday and I 'll fix it for you , of course with John working away he took the television |
| 25 | The gravediggers got hold of the coffin and shook it ; they pulled it this way and that , twisted it , hacked at it with a spade , levered at it with crowbars ; but still it would n't move . |
| 26 | Oh it would n't be me cos I 'm , I 'm doing it this year and I only thought of it too late |
| 27 | They 'll take risks Let's do so- and-so , and have a go at doing it this way And they 're often idealistic . |
| 28 | Boyd Stych , looking strangely civilized in a dark business suit and neatly clipped beard , was informed by his wife , when he came home , that the Advent was sending a photographer and a reporter to see him this evening and he was not to litter up the lounge — she 'd just tidied it . |
| 29 | He would say nothing more a– he led her this way and that through the streets , doubling back often , like a fox laying a foil . |
| 30 | Yo go on you can tell me this joke and then you can finish . |