Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten I 'm bid this time . |
| 2 | Twenty I 'm bid this time , any advance on twenty pound ? |
| 3 | I 'm bid this time . |
| 4 | Forty I 'm bid this time . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm told this war could be all over before I even get a shot at them . ’ |
| 6 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
| 7 | erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years . |
| 8 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
| 9 | And I was asked this week if it is possible to make up your own , rather than buy one of these metal affairs on wheels . |
| 10 | I WAS told this story of a young single mother , and I pass it on as an example of life in this grand country . |
| 11 | I was told this morning at work , so I do nt have exact details of where and when the games will be played . |
| 12 | I was woken this morning by Kenneth throwing a pile of Sunday newspapers on to my eiderdowned feet . |
| 13 | If you are given this task it is best to write the minutes up the same day or as soon as possible after the meeting while the discussion is still fresh in your mind . |
| 14 | And you were allocated this house in The Chantry ? |
| 15 | Enquire : ‘ If you were offered this job would you take it ? ’ |
| 16 | In fact , you were the first woman I 'd made love to in quite a long time , and I have n't even been interested in anyone since you were offered this job here and accepted it . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's ruined this company ! |
| 18 | Mind you , she 's done this sort of thing before . |
| 19 | She 's going around calling me a murderer and she 's invited this Cobalt in to turn over the place looking for drugs . ’ |
| 20 | She 's worked this summer like a lad three times her size ! |
| 21 | Your daughter Vanessa , judging by what she 's learnt this term , has no hearing-organs at all . ’ |
| 22 | She 's returned this spring , to spend the summer with her husband , children , close friends and assorted family members including her Swedish mother . |
| 23 | She 's taken this public access show and turned it into something completely entertaining . |
| 24 | For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour , which is Christ the Lord . |
| 25 | For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord . ’ |
| 26 | I mean presumably you was born this side of the river ? |
| 27 | We are pulled this way and that , but the effect of these contradictory pulls is to leave us fixed in the middle . |
| 28 | Erm you see we were given this test , right , it was on gravity or something |
| 29 | The figures we were given this morning indicate that in within the Greater York area , the increase would be from sixteen point three to twenty point six . |
| 30 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |