Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cedric and Dorothy had seemed a centre , even an essential one ; so many well-known people had been in and out with their politics , books , causes , marches for this and that , demonstrations . |
| 2 | I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else . |
| 3 | I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else . |
| 4 | I just come back er ladies and gentlemen to apologize for this morning 's cock up , I mean it was totally inexcusable of me . |
| 5 | Another pervasive , and important , influence for this head was technology . |
| 6 | Leaflet NI 105 explains in detail how to go about this . |
| 7 | The easiest and most obvious way to go about this self-assessment is to divide a sheet of paper with a line down the middle , head it ‘ Plus ’ and ‘ Minus ’ and write down everything you can think of under each heading . |
| 8 | Can you advise me how to go about this and what bits I need . |
| 9 | Briefing sessions should provide advice as to how to go about this . |
| 10 | Advice on how to go about this appears later in this chapter . |
| 11 | You will find instructions on how to go about this in Stage II . |
| 12 | and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with |
| 13 | Naturally , professional statisticians have considerable skill and experience on how to go about this and enjoy the challenge of participation , particularly if help is sought from an early stage . |
| 14 | And are you now going to take that any further or are you going as far as the government wants you to go as this stage ? |
| 15 | These , accumulating during this second period created an almost limitless reservoir of units and it is this reservoir which can be regarded as being identified with the state of the Created God at the time of the dawn of civilisation . |
| 16 | Then one day , I was in this car with some blokes , and one of them said , ‘ Have you heard about this band , with a really good one-legged woman bass player ? ’ |
| 17 | If Amanda Pennington ever heard about this he would die of shame . |
| 18 | It was her first visit to a city and she was taken aback by the volume of traffic — ‘ I had heard about this kind of thing , but it 's quite frightening close to like this , ’ she said , as she stood on the pavement in City Square and watched four lanes of vehicles jousting strenuously for position . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't think I 've ever heard about this , Edna . ’ |
| 20 | Driving through Kilmartin , south of Oban , I saw two notices calling public meetings to discuss pollution — the first I and many others had heard about this problem . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah yes … we 've heard about this . |
| 22 | ‘ Have you heard about this new senator everyone is proclaiming as the next President , John F. Kennedy ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 've heard about this sort of thing before , ’ he said , as if realizing what he 'd stumbled on , or at least what he thought he 'd stumbled on . |
| 24 | But my ex heard about this and sent me two letters , full of how much he cares for me and that the break-up was his fault . |
| 25 | I had already heard about this plan because the doctor had discussed it with my father ; but it was apparent that Eric himself was not at all enthusiastic about it . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've heard about this Hawaiian jaunt of mine , presumably ? ’ |
| 27 | Fiona ; Yeh I 've heard about this Council Tax , so then it 's true if you 're all students living together then you do n't have to pay ? great ! ! |
| 28 | No good , has anybody heard about this magic word conservation lately ? |
| 29 | You 've heard about this symbol of the brotherhood of man set in welcoming Perugia with its ancient traditions of hospitality , where every year bright-eyed , bushy-tailed youngsters come from the four corners of the world to study Italian culture and promote peace and international understanding . ’ |
| 30 | Zeinab had not heard about this . |