Example sentences of "[verb] this [noun sg] [conj] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered how I should broach this subject but as it happened , Dame Edna opened her heart . |
| 2 | It would be a complete misunderstanding to discuss this argument as though it were dependent on empirical facts about whether or not myths were the product of one person . |
| 3 | I said to Russell I 'll go upstairs and have a look at the bedrooms and I 've got this thing that if it 's a nice house I 'd go and have a look at the bedrooms , he said well why ? |
| 4 | Burroughs fans discuss this incident as though it enhances the writer 's mythical status . |
| 5 | The blackbirds that saw it quickly treated this bird as though it were potentially dangerous and mobbed it , even when their fellows could not see the owl and so were making no noise . |
| 6 | Or is it because there 's a different culture in the north and south because the , the two parts of China are very different , so you do n't know whether it 's the Communist Party that 's determining this difference or whether it 's just because of a difference of culture there . |
| 7 | There is a tendency for people to approach this matter as though it were one entirely for the shipyard concerned . |
| 8 | She had this thing that if it had been a Nigerian boy , the mother would be here saying " I 'm sorry my son has got your daughter pregnant . |