Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] this [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So tell me about this Rose Bowl of yours , ’ he said , leaning back and signalling the waiter for another bottle of wine . |
| 2 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 3 | And I cos I was amazed they told me about this salt rubbish ! |
| 4 | This girl just told me about this Polo factory outlet up near Canada … you can get a $200 knitted sweater for , like $20 — that 's outrageous ! ’ |
| 5 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 6 | He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money ! |
| 7 | ACTIVITY 3 5–10 mins Note down the points that strike you about this delivery system , the good as well as the bad . |
| 8 | I want to speak to you about this street lighting . |
| 9 | Details of Prices , Seating , Ticket and Booking Agents are published annually in late December and may be obtained from the Tattoo Office , 22 Market Street , Edinburgh EH1 1QB or from the office which supplied you with this order form . |
| 10 | assigned to you in this Cathedral Church |
| 11 | ‘ I would not , quite frankly , have involved you in this policy disagreement between us , Mike , had it been possible to avoid doing so . |
| 12 | obviously we 've got to work together on all , are you listening to me ? , on all the different parts of the body , you want them all to come alive , okay , so , this week as I say we 're gon na concentrate on sound , sound , sound , sound , you 've got to play on sound that is the painting , I mean the , the pictures do you , alright that 's fine , at the same does n't matter we 've still got to work on different things , yeah , okay ? , erm , so , as I say we 're going to make a sound machine in different groups , now to give you an example , what I what you to do is be , I 'm going to give you a situation , give , choose a profession , okay , let's say we are in hospital , now I want you each and everyone of you in this group think of the situation , think of a sound that one might hear in a hospital , everyone to themselves just think of a sound , could be a patient screaming , it could be a heart machine , it could be , er exactly , could be that , could be absolutely anything , it could sirens , it could be anything , okay , for everyone I want you to have the sound in your head okay , everyone 's got a sound in their head ? |
| 13 | ‘ I could take you to this Hotel Ritz you have spoken of , ’ he suggested . |
| 14 | Others will follow you to this training ground , but you will form the leadership . |
| 15 | David and Angela came along to see it and David said , ‘ I must introduce you to this guy Tony DeFries who is going to be my manager , and I think you should meet him too . ’ |
| 16 | It is very important indeed to ensure that the staff of G C H Q are not subject to potential conflicts of interest and as I said earlier the Prime Minister and I listened for some considerable time to the s to er to the points put forward by the trade unions to see whether or not that overriding er national objective could be maintained but we were not convinced , we were not convinced that erm the trade unions could overcome those potential conflicts of interest and it behoves ill the party opposite to try and put a different gloss on the fact that we in this country thanks to our legislation , have put harmony in place of strife and we are not prepared to allow the opposition to put that major achievement at risk . |
| 17 | The problem for the US troops , as in the bombing attacks aimed at Colonel Gadafy 's Libyan regime , is that there is no such thing as a surgical military strike against targets surrounded by civilians , many of them in this case US citizens . |
| 18 | ‘ They deserve a chance and I had no qualms about putting them in this quality field . |
| 19 | ‘ Most of the er , dastardly Huns , I think you call them in this time period , seem to be up by the door to the General 's office which , according to Benny , is also a quicker route out . |
| 20 | And she actually took me on this war work . |
| 21 | He took up his claret , drank , and moved to an anecdote which he had found scarcely ever failed and would surely , he was convinced , see him through this supper party as the man of wide travel , wide curiosity , the aristocratic rover who had finally come back home to live by the more profound , more refined things of life . |
| 22 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 23 | Jezrael wondered whose memory was being replayed inside her mind to guide her through this metal rat-run . |
| 24 | The boy had not spoken since they thrust him into this sandstone cell under the ground and left him with his single candle and his narrow bed . |
| 25 | We 're not running the council the labour group are running the council er but they on this occasion Mr Mayor , are the ones producing the rabbits out of the hats . |
| 26 | If inviting an elderly parent to come to live with you in your own home seems to be the best way of helping her in her last years , the first overtures you make to her on this subject need to be very tactful , bearing all the hallmarks of a really welcoming invitation . |
| 27 | ‘ Q. What meanest thou by this word Sacrament ? ’ |
| 28 | Now erm was it through this union activity you became interested in the Labour Party ? |
| 29 | and if you got it through this gold card there was another five percent off so or something like that off . |
| 30 | I canna ’ hear it with this watter runnin' . ’ |