Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | England manager Graham Taylor has given him this Saturday off to attend the wedding of his sister Anne-Marie . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And he has given us this command : Whoever loves God must also love his brother ( 1 John 4:18–21 ) . |
| 4 | Mr Major said Mr Patten had been ‘ the architect of of the campaign that has won us this victory … |
| 5 | Romany King has done nothing this year but the fact that he ran so well last time at Aintree has kept him short in the market . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | I suppose Bev has told you this bit . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The same has happened at the Department of the Environment : Christopher Patten has conducted himself this week as the antithesis of an ideologue . |
| 10 | The Russian , who has confirmed herself this year as one of the world 's greatest athletes by setting four world records , is said to have tested positive at a meeting in Lievin , France , last month after equalling her 60 metres hurdles world record . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Erm but he 'd given me this number , Glen about Portakabins . |
| 13 | Erm I 'd seen one this morning but she is n't in the core lecture so she 's no good to you , but I said to her could you give me a lift at all ? |
| 14 | The committee would never have given me this show if it was n't for the Machin revival . |
| 15 | I should have discharged myself this morning . ’ |
| 16 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 17 | However , the Government should have done something this year to mitigate the costs of that 20 per cent . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I could have seen him this morning before your lot arrived but I funked it . ’ |
| 19 | Good lord ! and but for his hand going up she would really have brained him this time , and then where would she have been ? |
| 20 | ‘ We believe that we might have had it this year were it not for the election . ’ |
| 21 | Should I have grabbed her this morning ? |
| 22 | ‘ A thought of that two months back might have spared you this grief now . |
| 23 | It was impossible they could have found her this time . |
| 24 | ‘ I seem to recall having asked you this question before . |
| 25 | Retiring BBC chairman Sir Marmaduke Hussey might well have managed one this time around . |
| 26 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 27 | He gave Tottenham Hotspur the title , I think , of the greatest club side ever in erm , British football , and they won erm , the double as everyone knows , in nineteen sixty one , the first English team to have won it this century . |
| 28 | ‘ Behold , thou hast driven me this day away from the ground ; and from thy face I shall be hidden ; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth and whoever finds me will slay me . ’ |
| 29 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |