Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [be] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of their most useful features was the thick layer of pure white fat with which they were coated when you took it out of the tin there was this layer of fat round the edge . |
| 2 | I mean , it was a windy day as well and I do n't think that helped because the wind was sort of blowing into the mike but er and when he took it to college there was this noise all the time , he must have had it clipped under here somewhere ! |
| 3 | What an absolute pig he was this evening . |
| 4 | I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , in the contemporary English village it is this feeling of having been ‘ taken over ’ by outsiders that usually prevails among the agricultural population and with it not only a sense of ‘ loss of community ’ , but an inevitable animus against the invasion of ‘ furriners ’ . |
| 6 | Daddy I 'm this side |
| 7 | cub like that with a stick , I know a job about that a blind man coming , a blind man was walking down the pavement with a stick , so on the side of the pavement there 's this dog turd |
| 8 | In my opinion it is this flexibility which has given English primary education its unique quality . |
| 9 | at the very start of last night there was this guy water skiing |
| 10 | When Harriet once again saw her daughter off at Penzance station it was this time with a sense of relief . |
| 11 | Then of course there 's this insurance thing to do as well when David 's er free and sorted out |
| 12 | But also of course there was this propaganda from from the government you know that erm they 'd just got to keep up morale and this was one one way as you will see in a minute of how they did it . |
| 13 | On one level there 's this analogy , this pattern about history that we 've been talking about but er is Freud 's attempt to explain Jewish er culture in terms of a , of a general pattern of history , of course there are many other examples and Mike has suggested a brilliant one here . |
| 14 | If you did get in any trouble there was this man , Joe , and he was a really big hard man , he was a black-belt in karate and everything , and he really did mentally and physically terrify the girls . |
| 15 | When I went for the paper this morning there was this dog , two dogs actually , but one |
| 16 | The hotel Santon looks out over the lake which is this area 's main attraction . |
| 17 | Nor were any examples found of we or you co-occurring with a singular verb , and in a very real sense it is this constraint which distinguishes the Belfast vernacular concord system from that of other non-standard varieties . |
| 18 | to Jim , whose turn it was this morning : |
| 19 | Yeah there 's the price it 's size it 's this product you know the reason we 're phone you because you 've been identified as by the estate agent or medical practice or school as being very suitable and they would very much like you to support this . |
| 20 | and just pop me head round and , and see , in case it is this week |
| 21 | In the university field it was this problem which generated the appearance of the Atkinson Report ( see pp.9–10 ) itself a political solution . |
| 22 | For the most part , the political history of Charles the Bald 's reign which is this book 's prime focus was the concern of an aristocratic elite . |
| 23 | Although the excavators have warned that these dates are only a broad indication of that of the complex and segmented line which is this phase of the Danevirke as a whole , they nevertheless believe that in a period of danger from Germany Harald rebuilt the central section , and was also responsible for the first phases of the flanking lines to east and west . |
| 24 | If you need a doctor there 's this group practice nearby , or that one . |
| 25 | ‘ For one thing there 's this house — you would n't believe the way it gets through money . |
| 26 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 27 | On the one hand , says Freud , there 's a strong desire to go on sleeping , but on the other hand there 's this stimulus , I 'm terribly thirsty or you know I , I , I , I really do need to go to the bathroom pretty badly , and there 's an inner conflict in your mind . |
| 28 | We can change the terminology , we can give it different words , we can talk about making a commitment to Christ , we can talk about salvation , we can talk about conversion , the word , they 're not the important thing it 's this act of a new birth of receiving God in Christ for ourselves , believing that he died for us and are receiving this new life . |
| 29 | It deletes the facts empty(x) and to-move(C) which are this operation 's necessary conditions , and adds filled ( x , C ) and to-move(D) where D C. |
| 30 | First of all chairman we have put in this morning erm a paper on commitments which erm I think was asked for by the panel which is this document which should have been circulated er by now . |