Example sentences of "[vb infin] this [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's think this through . |
| 2 | She could still hear the faint murmurs of Tom Russell and his sister talking on the veranda , and it distracted her from the real purpose of this time alone , which was not to go on reliving that moment when his hand had covered her own , but to obediently follow his suggestion of giving herself time to fully think this through . |
| 3 | And you 've got to try and relate this back to the areas as we have now as we now understand them . |
| 4 | I do n't want that on , I do n't want this on |
| 5 | Do you want this on here ? |
| 6 | Do n't let it come across like that , the temptation is to think that you 've got to have all this bit up here , now you do n't want this up here because it 's very difficult to cope with once you 've tied it round to get it round the elbow , you want the least amount that you can get , just cover the arm and then it makes it much easier to deal with at the end . |
| 7 | Do you want this back ? |
| 8 | do you , do you want this off ? |
| 9 | Shall I throw this out ? |
| 10 | Why should he make this up ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have absolutely no idea why he should make this up , ’ she added . |
| 12 | I ca n't make this out , Lex . |
| 13 | " I ca n't make this out , " I say ( as myself , not the alien ) , to which several children respond : " No , that 's because it 's written in the alien 's language . " |
| 14 | We ca n't make this out at all . |
| 15 | We 'll do this , we 'll just thread this on . |
| 16 | I do n't need the iron , I do n't need , I do n't need this out though just the , leave that just leave them on there like that |
| 17 | COLBERT : I was sitting next to Bob Mcknight , and five seconds before it happened I said to Bob , the only person who can fuck this up is Tom Carroll . |
| 18 | Er can I hang this up and no , so as not to take it into the church ? |
| 19 | We could hang this up . |
| 20 | ‘ Have you got any string we can tie this up with , Billy ? ’ |
| 21 | We try to set ourselves specific aims and objectives and when it comes to marking scripts , for example , we have a quite specific mark scheme which has been very carefully thrased out , not only with examiners , but with certain school teachers , which we try to make tie this down as be as objective as we can , but there 's always and element of subjectivity . |
| 22 | ‘ Dennis , lovie , can you type this out now and let me have a copy ? |
| 23 | Right , I 'm gon na tip this out now . |
| 24 | and we 'd left it , and not bothered and then he says one day I might as well sling this out it 's no good is it ? |
| 25 | I have not done your allocation acts of nineteen ninety one harvest as I am not absolutely sure of all the movements of that allocation , maybe you could detail this out for me as it will greatly help when I 'm eventually charging oblique crediting you . |
| 26 | ‘ Then do n't you think you should break this off ? ’ |
| 27 | One might , perhaps , break this down further by maintaining a distinction between ‘ grammatical ’ and paralinguistic ways of indicating status . |
| 28 | ‘ Why the hell did n't you bring this up before now ? ’ |
| 29 | Thus in cheap years a family with three children were guaranteed 9s ( 45p ) , while the doubling of the bread allowance in dearer ones would bring this up to 12s ( 60p ) . |
| 30 | A teaching profession with a better understanding and a wider knowledge of educational research would be more able to question those who indulge in ‘ jargon ’ and also have a solid base from which to put forward their views which , whether rightly or wrongly , still rely too heavily on intuitive feel for what is happening , and I feel confident that the STRN can help bring this about if Scottish teachers give it the support it deserves . |