Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [pers pn] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | England manager Graham Taylor has given him this Saturday off to attend the wedding of his sister Anne-Marie . |
| 2 | He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue . |
| 3 | And he has given us this command : Whoever loves God must also love his brother ( 1 John 4:18–21 ) . |
| 4 | Mr Major said Mr Patten had been ‘ the architect of of the campaign that has won us this victory … |
| 5 | Maybe the police has made me this way , but do you not see that if you 're going to come in here asking me questions about my family , if you 're going to want to know all these things , I 've got to be able to trust you ? |
| 6 | I suppose Bev has told you this bit . |
| 7 | New industrializing areas attracted migrants from the south to the north ( and to South Wales ) the reverse of ‘ drift to the south ’ which has preoccupied us this century . |
| 8 | Although the monk does not tell the wife where the hundred francs have come from , and creates potential trouble for her by telling the husband that he has paid her this sum , the wife in the Shipman 's Tale is quite the opposite of the foolish , deceived creature that Margery is in Dame Sirith . |
| 9 | Ah well he says , and he said he 's given me this list . |
| 10 | Anyway , my sister 's bought me this thing to go round my neck . |
| 11 | So she 's bought me this book ? |
| 12 | Malcolm 's got us this singer , we kept saying to each other , and he ca n't sing , what is all this about ? |
| 13 | She says they had the house raised off it 's foundations a while ago … maybe that 's protected them this time . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , come on , you do n't really think you 're the first man who 's issued me this kind of invitation ? ’ |
| 15 | Nine minutes it 's taken him this evening , no more — almost as fast as me . |
| 16 | I do n't think so when I went to let him in he 'd pulled himself up round the patio and looked as though he expected to be walloped for being silly he 's taken us this morning . |
| 17 | If , if your , if your total turnover was sixteen thousand , then the inspector of taxes would want from you an account which shows how your fifteen thou sixteen thousand has been arrived at , who 's paid you this money because he looks at those and he checks their accounts to see they 've received it obviously , that 's what it is , and wh how is your five thousand pounds made up . |