Example sentences of "this be [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellen and I worked hard that week and , on the Saturday , as though to commiserate with ourselves on this being our last day alone together , we stopped work at midday and took a bus to Mama Sipcott 's Café on the beach where we ate lobster and drank too much of Mama 's sticky-sweet white wine . |
| 2 | This is me thirteenth child and I never had one with any of them . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ter tell yer the trufe this is me first interview , ’ he told her . |
| 4 | This is its first publication anywhere . |
| 5 | This is its third famine warning in four years , and the direst so far . |
| 6 | However , this is her first film role . |
| 7 | This is her first season with Senior League side Portadown and she has already established a regular place on the firsts , developing at the same time into one of the most promising players in the country . |
| 8 | This is her second book , slimmer but by no means slighter ; complex computer stuff that she turns into a fun thriller . |
| 9 | Rosaline is very much a match for Berowne ; this is her last challenge to him , at a moment in the play when death has blown all comedy away . |
| 10 | This is her third novel ; her first , Honour Thy Father , won a Somerset Maugham and a Betty Trask award . |
| 11 | For most of the mothers this is their first experience of childcare outside their own families . |
| 12 | They 'll be affected as this is their first port of call in their early experience in the theatre . |
| 13 | As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails . |
| 14 | Town of course have been hit by the big freeze … this is their first game in a fortnight |
| 15 | For many programmers , this is their first taste of trying to sell houses in a buyers ' market , of static wages and of finding that demand for their skills no longer outstrips supply . |
| 16 | Mid to mi mid to late sixties she bought her house and just this is their second house and , you know , that 's all the mortgage was . |
| 17 | So providing they 're an existing client , or this is their second application with you tonight . |
| 18 | COLBERT : It had gone on for too long : this is his ninth year on the Tour . |
| 19 | This is his second year at Leeds , and he has made several appearances in the Reserves . |
| 20 | This is his second year at Leeds . |
| 21 | Yes this is his eleventh League Club Leicester City . |
| 22 | Apart from last month 's Elysee supper-summit , this is his first outing with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 23 | Apart from last month 's Elysee supper-summit , this is his first outing with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 24 | ‘ This is his first time here , ’ said Something . |
| 25 | Atlaal ( 12.30 ) has had an outing on the flat recently and should be fit enough , despite the fact that this is his first hurdles race since February . |
| 26 | As this is his first book in which the death instincts are introduced as a distinct conceptualization , it is a pity that the arguments are so poor . |
| 27 | Robert Jones , who will be driving the lorry , is a veteran of mercy runs to eastern Europe — this is his thirteenth mission — said : ‘ Conditions in Romania are still bad . |
| 28 | Undoubtedly the Gary Lineker of British House is THE SCIENTIST , whose new promo 12-inch proves that under his own name or a pseudonym he certainly is top scorer , not to mention prolific as this is his third single since mid-September . |
| 29 | Undoubtedly the Gary Lineker of British House is THE SCIENTIST , whose new promo 12-inch proves that under his own name or a pseudonym he certainly is top scorer , not to mention prolific as this is his third single since mid-September . |
| 30 | He is used to it , though ; this is his 11th failure in 12 years of trying . |