Example sentences of "be [prep] this [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since these payments are for this purpose they are quite separate from , and are not dependent upon , any right to compensation or the ‘ Disturbance Payment ’ which is described below . |
| 2 | No matter how careful I am with this lead it gets a knot in it . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , as long as I am in this world I remain a sinner , still capable of letting him down . |
| 4 | If you are in this camp you have a Soviet name . |
| 5 | If you are in this position it is important to take stock of what you have taken on . |
| 6 | If proofs there are in this book they are only that Marxism is now quite properly the preserve of cranks and dreamers . |
| 7 | He went up there this year , I was up , this is true on God 's , I 'm in this chair he said , come on I 'll I 'm going now I 'm gon na get my , I had to go I had to go and get Rififi , a filly called Rififi I did . |
| 8 | Erm , I 'm on this occasion I 'll keep as close to this as I can possibly go . |
| 9 | ‘ I know I wo n't keep doing it at this rate but while I 'm on this streak I 'll take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 10 | To pick up David 's point now , if this is the client who 's already running the house , the mortgage , it 's , you know , a few years old , they want to take out a further advance , for some house improvements , or something , then obviously they now need more , so it might be at this stage we then want a P S P for the remaining , you know , ten years , eleven years , twelve years , or whatever , because they 've borrowed some more money from the building society . |
| 11 | And — ’ with a grateful glance at Benedict , who was standing by , mute , moved as he had not expected to be by this reunion he had brought about ‘ — thanks to this intelligent and resourceful young man , it is over now . ’ |
| 12 | A lady who suffers with a hiatus hernia wrote , ‘ I have had to take Rennies after meals for years but since I have been on this diet I have n't had a Rennie for five weeks ! |
| 13 | There was one long corridor and all the classrooms were were off this corridor you see , I I should think there 'd be er five , five classrooms , it was it was no sixth form . |
| 14 | He were in this morning he 's er had summat to eat , well he 's made it obvious . |
| 15 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 16 | It 's for this reason I 've gone against my initial instinct not to blow our own trumpet on this at the risk of provoking more ‘ bad loser ’ comments from certain people ( and let me stress I do n't mean the runners-up ) communicated to me . |
| 17 | It is for this reason we currently have the ludicrous situation of two record fish lists , one run by the National Anglers Council , which is a record of fish that were claimed in accordance with a set of inflexible rules , and one that is run by the National Association of Specialist Anglers , whose record fish appear according to individual merit , this merit being judged by highly experienced specialist anglers who know a ‘ con ’ when they see one and who would reject a claim if there were any doubt as to its truth . |
| 18 | It is for this reason we have put our resources into the WISE vehicle programme and why we welcome your co–operation . |
| 19 | £88,000 amortised over 10 years at 13% interest would result in an annual charge of £16,192 so it is against this figure he has compared outdoor accommodation . |
| 20 | Well it 's just erm ah I do n't know , I mean there 's there 's certain things I mean , it it 's like this maths I mean , I I spoke to her erm and she said yes Lee had come on and everything in his maths and I said we the thing is , I said , knowing Lee has difficulty in in th l in the high level maths , yes you do n't want to drop him , but surely I said I 'm willing to help in my spare time , Lee 's willing to do it and I said ca n't you show Lee I said I 'm not I was n't trying to tell her |
| 21 | It 's like this film I seen about these penguins — you know , how they all lived together on this island , and they was loads of them , all jammed together . |
| 22 | , six days a week , I mean it 's like this year I mean he 's going to be working , I 'm working as well right up to Christmas Eve , so are you , his gon na have the Christmas Day and they want him back at work on the Boxing Night . |
| 23 | cos Kenneth come up early on , he says it 's like this night he says I 'm not properly , ah right , I says I might I says were that like , I says , I says what time ? |
| 24 | It 's in this way I think that Proust clears the ground in order to claim that the artist , be he writer , painter , musician , can capture reality by means not open to and indeed mostly at variance with the discursive intellect . |
| 25 | ‘ Then it is from this direction it will come ? ’ |
| 26 | Thus the implied futures rate ( rf ) is In this case we get as required . |
| 27 | It is at this point you should decide on your future involvement . |
| 28 | It was about this time she began seeing more and more of Laurence Wheldon … |
| 29 | He had to remind himself that when she was in this mood she was a mistress of the single , agonized word , the mutely suffering glance . |
| 30 | And er so while I was in this shop I I sold this chap five hundred bundles of fire wood you see ? |