Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment .
2 looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without
3 Her claw-prints are all over this Anya debacle , and the only physical attentions from me she 's likely to receive in future are a piece of my mind , the rough side of my tongue and my boot up her backside . )
4 That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire .
5 The original author of this book commented in the House of Commons , ‘ Seldom have I seen the House or the Government in quite such a mess … as we are in over this Bill … this House does not contain a majority for this Bill .
6 I am not in this book .
7 With those consequences I am not in this lecture concerned .
8 Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip .
9 Onomatopoeic effects are generally of this kind , as we see from the opening sentence of D. H. Lawrence 's Odour of Chrysanthemums ( see 3.4 ) : The small locomotive engine , Number 4 , came clanking , stumbling down from Selston with seven full wagons .
10 Note , if you are already in this position , please call SST Technical Support for advice .
11 Obree and Williamson are not on this year 's start sheet so far and Gibson is top seed .
12 I do n't agree with it because there are certainly seats there which are their responsibility which are not on this list , particularly around this memorial outside and places like that and erm quite categorically they 're theirs .
13 But industrial conflicts are not of this kind .
14 There are of course all kinds of truths that are not of this sort ; but they lie on a lower level altogether .
15 ‘ You are not of this planet ? ’
16 like for instance chapter ten of John , verse sixteen which talks about other sheep which are not of this fold , you , you might think that er that 's talking about , what er , the logical sense of that scripture is that the dividing line with sheep and you get different sort of folds do n't you ?
17 ‘ They are not of this world .
18 For human building ( art ) and the processes of germination ( nature ) are not in this vision opposed , as alternatives we must choose between .
19 A few are not in this sense well-formed , although some grammatical structure is normally discernible .
20 Christians however are not in this situation .
21 It was argued above that it is unacceptable to claim that the mandatory penalty for murder supplies the raison d'être for the qualified defence of provocation : the label ‘ murder ’ should be reserved for the most heinous of killings , and there is a widely held belief that provoked killings are not in this group .
22 You are not from this world , he says , and you came here in a metal ship which flew through the air .
23 Is it the truth that you are not from this world , but from another far away ? ’
24 Well , this , you know we 're on about this money
25 Right we 're on to this roll now .
26 They 're not at this end of the river .
27 Only you 're not in this movie .
28 Now you 're not from this part of the country by the sound of it ?
29 You 're not from this area though are ya ?
30 Penny that come today she 's a horse fanatic , she 's only just sold her own , her own horse , but oh they 're out of this world , absolutely , were n't they , they were just stunning .
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