Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [conj] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I 'm forgive me if this information is already available to the Committee but er are each of your schemes are they money purchase schemes or final salary schemes ? |
| 2 | John then continued , ‘ If any of the police again approach you or any of your colleagues-in-crime just tell them that this thing is bigger than any of you . ’ |
| 3 | At present the flysheet is vivid purple and sky blue but Ariel tell me that this tent will appear in apple green and gold for next season . |
| 4 | People I have asked tell me that this faith was austere and fanatical , that many of its adherents gave as good as any of its martyrs got . |
| 5 | rather than I tell ya cos this thing , this thing we 're in now what 's it like ? |
| 6 | ‘ I get you and this mountain ? ’ he said at last . |
| 7 | British Rail tell us that this evening 's Banbury to London Paddington train which was due to leave Banbury at three minutes past seven has been cancelled , otherwise I 've no problems to report on the local trains or buses . . |
| 8 | Mr Mason , please tell us if this gentleman 's wife is still alive . ’ |
| 9 | He addresses Dame Sirith imperiously , and with a French expression : But Dame Sirith 's final words remind us that this courtliness of expression is located in a fabliau in which the actions and attitudes are as commercial ( pris , mede ) and as crude , sexually , as in any French counterpart : These lines do not quite move into the register of marked language that we have seen in the French fabliaux and shall see in Chaucer 's English fabliaux except in so far as references to women 's thighs do not find a place in the conventional rhetorical portrayal of a courtly lady . |
| 10 | He looked upwards now at the bunting stretched across the girders of the platform , then said , ‘ With a little imagination you know I could dismiss the Coronation and take it that this show of affection was all for my being twenty-one today . |