Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm now councillor and I asked for this matter to be brought to this chamber because erm we felt that the matter w was important enough that all members of this council should have an opportunity to debate it . |
| 2 | The Opposition replied , ’ That was 10 years ago ’ , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , whom I commend for this observation , said , that 10 years was a very long time for the Leader of the Opposition and 10 minutes was about the average length of every policy that he had put forward . |
| 3 | I gazed at this scene thinking that of all of the things I wanted when I was grown up , the one I wanted most was to play a harmonium . |
| 4 | It follows that I award for this period of care by the plaintiff 's parents the sum of fifteen thousand pounds which equates to an award of three pounds hourly for five thousand hours . |
| 5 | What did I build on this foundation ? |
| 6 | Again , I repeat with this problem of unemployment and so on , and the really obscene level of unemployment in this country at the moment — absolutely shocking I think — and I think the universities have to address themselves to that problem . |
| 7 | I mean for this market research one , we ought to finish this tonight because if she comes tomorrow |
| 8 | I mean with this exhibition that we 've booked ‘ Just the Job ’ , which is black women erm and the kind of jobs that they 've got , a large percentage are carers and erm and it is the thing that erm women feel that they can do and it erm in a way that it comes out of their role in the home , the caring role , and erm and it 's a role that they get sort of erm trapped into and it does n't pay very much money , as Brenda was saying earlier . |
| 9 | Well we were n't anyway there was very few pe , I mean at this time of the year I suppose but there was one place and it said Sunday lunch , there was a sort of black board outside , Sunday lunch erm four pound was it four fifty it was four fifty was n't it ? |
| 10 | Well this is about , I mean at this point it 's about one o'clock in the morning . |
| 11 | And yo and your er see what I mean about this area up here , I mean it 's not a bad thingy . |
| 12 | Because that 's really erm a part of what I mean by this criterion . |
| 13 | And er the diesel pumps were n't on and er there was a couple of guys putting on breathing apparatus and trying to get in to restart them , but I mean by this stage the smoke was so thick they could n't even find where the pumps were . |
| 14 | Well , not really but they have been disillusioned over the years they 've promised so much and then they 've never seemed seemed to get anywhere but I think , I honestly think they would , people would get behind them , if they could see they were going somewhere I mean like this season they seem to have fallen away yet again . |
| 15 | ‘ I realised in this day and age that people are looking for something that wee bit different , and we found with the long spell of bad weather we 've had over the summer months that people want to stay inside , ’ explained Mr Nelson . |
| 16 | And what will I earn for this work ? ’ |
| 17 | I met at this time a number of adopted children , and realised that the problems we all faced were similar , whatever the child 's colour happened to be . |
| 18 | I agreed to this trip because of that . |
| 19 | I sit on this platform fifteen minutes waiting for a train . |
| 20 | As I sit at this word processor , the chips of which may have been assembled by a young woman in the Philippines for a pittance a day and for such long hours that her eyes will be damaged in a tax haven created specially for foreign companies , I am acutely aware of the link between the health of the people of the Philippines and my life here in Britain . |
| 21 | My ambition at the moment is to make sure I qualify for this year 's Open Championship . ’ |
| 22 | Although I concentrate in this chapter on sexual difference and on cultural and racial differences in the last chapter , it is worth remembering that in some contexts they interrelate . |
| 23 | When I passed at this point MacArthur said perhaps I would like to hear his summary as a soldier and as no businessman or textile expert . |
| 24 | So what do you and I make of this theory ? |
| 25 | Many of the points that I make in this speech have already been covered by John , but they are important and deserve to be repeated . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're the only one I trust in this outfit . |
| 27 | T. D. I was on the beat round Stanley Hospital and I got to this point at four o'clock on the Saturday morning . |
| 28 | Now when I was preparing this evidence , I got to this point and I thought to myself , why on earth has this not happened in Richmondshire ? |
| 29 | I did n't put any lights on , and when I got into this room I was thankful I had n't . |
| 30 | But once I got into this set of gay men , it took over my social life almost completely . |