Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [to-vb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as there is a substantial move from saying ‘ This is a pleasant experience ’ to saying ‘ This is a good thing ’ , so there is a substantial move from saying ‘ This act will produce the best consequences ’ to saying ‘ I ought to do this act ’ . |
| 2 | I ought to start this note with a health warning — it contains some mathematics ; not a lot , but some . |
| 3 | ‘ I used to take this lad for walks and he was forever saying ‘ Beckus my old grey mare ’ . |
| 4 | And I used to use this flat because although I had to pay Dad a bit of rent , of course , it was quite low . |
| 5 | I used to do this thing about being tucked up by my mother at night . |
| 6 | I , I , I 'm very concerned , erm , about this because er , I used to deliver this dip , and I , I 'm concerned er , about my staff , and there 's been lots of cases that have claimed that this er , dip has affected people . |
| 7 | I used to pay this friend to go like into Tesco 's . |
| 8 | ‘ It sounds so silly when I think about it now , ’ says a disappointed daughter in Pitkeathley 's book , ‘ but I used to have this image of us sitting together in the afternoons . |
| 9 | So , in closing I would to take this opportunity to apologise for a late magazine last Autumn , it was the only hiccup in the new system , and assure members that , despite losing our magazine to outsiders for a little while , it is well worth it … happy reading . |
| 10 | of of of everything , er , she said , as you raised , you been appeared in the paper , obviously , in dealing with something , it seemed to you , unjust , our folks thought you ought to introduce this subject . |
| 11 | I have said enough to show your lordships that the question before you is not whether you can reject this Bill but whether you ought to reject this Bill — a wholly different thing . |
| 12 | A. T. You used to accumulate this time you worked over and try and get off the last four hours when nobody was about . |
| 13 | Oh yes , it was a leather er erm a piece of leather with three tongs on it and a handle to it , and er you used to have this strap on your hand . |
| 14 | We ought to leave this place at once . |
| 15 | I do n't know if there 's anything on tomorrow Maybe we ought to go this evening if she 's there to work . |
| 16 | I do n't want to rush you but I 've booked at the bistro down the road for nine o'clock so we ought to have this drink and go . ’ |
| 17 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 18 | If the fragment of discourse one wished to study was only the part of ( 5 ) beginning , when we were children we used to use this taw , then accounting for the speaker 's mention of the trolley near the end of this fragment would have to be done in terms of the preceding discourse ( i.e. all the first section before the taw is mentioned ) in which the trolley is introduced and characterised . |
| 19 | And erm we used to kick this tin down the hill and er as I say it would roll down and we would all go and hide anywhere , back garden , front garden , over a wall , round a corner , anywhere like that you see . |
| 20 | We used t er we used whistle , we used to blow this whistle and tell him what material we wanted , do you see ? |
| 21 | Not every Saturday morning but we used to do this job . |
| 22 | Oh we used to get this stuff . |
| 23 | I make no apologies for this it is self evidently both right and in everyone 's interest to do what we can to support this transition process . |
| 24 | ‘ They used to call this mince until people started making their own hamburgers , you know . |
| 25 | You see Walsall being a leather town there was a lot of this er bark tannin as went and when anyone who was ill so they would n't hear the noises of the horse driven vehicles going by they used to , for about fifty yards each side of the house they used to put this stuff in the road to deaden the sound . |
| 26 | Oh yes they put this , this tannin down it was like a bark I do n't know what it was cos I 'm not in the leather trade , I , I do n't know much about it except that it was some by-product from the of the er tanning process , and they used to put this stuff down when people were ill . |
| 27 | Then in back end they used to empty this crew yard and you used to have to handle all that with forks , muck forks , they used to call them , and that was big biggest fork and by God , they used to pull your heart out . |
| 28 | And I remember when I was a nipper , er er being up there and they had , they always had a box in the back of their caravan where they kept two or three hens , and , and , and er they used to have this game bird . |
| 29 | And then in the old days when they used to have this body snatching , |
| 30 | Er well er the just these two people that retired there , er they used to come this man in a car from , that was their lift to their work . |