Example sentences of "[prep] this [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt miserable about this all the morning , but better in the afternoon when they went to Druid 's Bottom after school . |
| 2 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm saying , you 're going about this all the wrong way . |
| 4 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 5 | Erm it w would be er pretty foolish I think after the lessons that have been learned about this that you know we should sink back i i into erm contentment as it were , er , er , er , er |
| 6 | computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know |
| 7 | and they dragged two of them in and there 's about ten people in the other side of the carriage in about this much space and there 's like two J F S kids lying on the floor in the middle of the carriage |
| 8 | One of them came in , looked at the rubber gear and said , cor , I do n't know about this any more , this is all a bit too weird for me . |
| 9 | Yes is it all about this any more in the newsletter next newsletter ? |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't want to talk about this any more . ’ |
| 11 | The stop sign : a raised hand , meaning you do n't want to talk about this any more . |
| 12 | I 've spoken to Gordon at length about this several times and he has been coping with it — but only with difficulty . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm just sorry the whole thing happened and the man who must be embarrassed about this most of all is sponsor Matt Laverty who lent me the bike on Thursday night at practice . ’ |
| 14 | We heard earlier on about this this this regimental bath I think they call it , this bath of excreta and urine and bleach and the brigadier and David Lightbown said how rare this was , er did you ever see it ? |
| 15 | by about this this amount . |
| 16 | Anyway I talked to Ann about this this morning and we 've come to the decision to leave it on because that 's what we did in the in the erm |
| 17 | Oh yeah , the dish right , the dish is about this this long , this wide |
| 18 | ‘ I need to think about this some more , ’ she said . |
| 19 | We 've got to get off this all play mum . |
| 20 | In a situation such as this much of what this Report contains may seem to be irrelevant . |
| 21 | It was during this latter period that the anti-Bennett lobby really closed ranks on the " civilian upstart " . |
| 22 | Would the er patients be seeing the doctor as well as the midwife during this few months before they were going |
| 23 | During this same period a far wider survey had been undertaken of all the fifty-nine party cells in the Poltava guberniia . |
| 24 | Between them , Greece , Spain and Portugal have provided an estimated one million migrants to France and Germany alone during this same period . |
| 25 | A second significant new approach to the study of the flora became evident during this same period . |
| 26 | During this same period , the trainee may also be asked to sit in on interviews in their bureau . |
| 27 | During this same period there was also a precipitous fall from 76 per cent to 42 per cent in public confidence in the executive branch of the federal government . |
| 28 | During this same period the local police , courts and probation service were noting a rapid increase in offences involving the possession and supply of drugs and , more subtly , in the number of crimes involving offenders said to be or admitting to be heroin users . |
| 29 | The number of exceedances of the eight-hour air quality standard decreased by over 80 per cent during this same period but , even so , 41 areas failed to meet the air quality standard in 1988–9 . |
| 30 | ( During this same period , ) an analogous tendency was operative in the sphere of tragic character-portrayal . |