Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [v-ing] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | that and so on , erm , erm , I , it would be nice in fact if the er Ipswich evening tabloid which gave us prominence to this rule er would give just a little space to er this latest development , erm but I would like to , not being excessively caracole I mean reading this document I do feel a slight er switch on your comments on er Pipers Vale , er which you note , there are no er nationally er or er common species which sounds as though you have designs on it , erm I , I wonder if this would be the place to ask you , you know , to make some sort of statement about Pipers Vale , you know that we are basically looking for a route which does not touch on Pipers Vale |
2 | And then , ‘ God , how I hate talking this way . ’ |
3 | Just after I 'd finished at college , I went along to someone 's party and I remember telling this girl who I was chatting up that I played bass . |
4 | I remember reading this book it was partly , it was about the German Navy |
5 | I remember learning this lesson painfully when as a new curate I came to the weekly staff meeting in Cranham . |
6 | I remember making this point a couple of years ago , yeah I made this point last year and I showed these pictures , I spent about twenty minutes on it , the following week I was , I was libelously accused and it was a libel , it was a serious libel erm er that I , that I said that females always had to submit erm I was very angry about that . |
7 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
8 | So Ollie had to change his passport and hand up another passport and I remember saying this guy plays in the big leagues . |
9 | I advise reading this book one entry at a time , and , where possible , following up the footnotes . |
10 | ‘ I keep imagining this morning that I have — please believe me , Milena , because when we 're married you will have to put up with a lot of this , but I keep imagining that I have lots of little crisp sepia legs . ’ |
11 | Now I keep taking this Shelabruse it clears , and it comes back . |
12 | ‘ I keep getting this pain . ’ |
13 | ‘ I keep getting this pain , ’ Wendy whispered . |
14 | I keep getting this feeling it 's already there , like in quantum physics , where matter is mostly space , and space , even the vacuum , seethes with creation and annihilation all the time , and nothing is absolute , and two particles at opposite ends of the universe react together as soon as one 's interfered with ; all that stuff . |
15 | I keep carrying this gun because if I put it down , then someday I 'll meet the man still holding his . |
16 | Oh , it 's brilliant you know I mean er , I 've I 've telling him what I 've doing this week . |
17 | The GP was consulted , recommended that she stop taking this medication and started her on ciprofloxacin 500mg twice daily . |
18 | These fish in the 1lb to 2lb class can be a hundred or more strong in a shoal , and if you begin catching this size of barbel it is likely they will remain in the swim , feeding off and on , for as long as you have bait to keep them interested . |
19 | Finally may I say that I hope that ( most days ) you enjoy reading this book as much as I ( most days ) enjoyed writing it . |
20 | You try pushing this thing fifteen miles in a morning ! |
21 | I do n't suppose you fancy taking this tape machine home tonight do you , and recording some of your conversation with your brother or something ? |
22 | If you can not see your way to doing this , I regret that I shall have to suggest to the Parish Council that they consider moving this account to another bank . |
23 | Whether that shame is yet moving them to have an impact on the men who they see perpetrating this sort of behaviour in colleges I do n't know , but certainly some of the undergraduates I have spoken to feel very embarrassed that this is the portrait of male behaviour that 's being perpetrated . |