Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as I became more acquainted with this set and stopped rushing from impossible passage to impossible passage , hoping against hope that at some point he would lose his balance and tumble like a second-rate trapeze artist off his swing , I was unwittingly dragged in to a more sinister , melancholic side to his playing . |
| 2 | I 'd rather taken against this woman — she was frightfully solid and know-it-all and not funny , you know — and to be difficult I asked her how she knew this , thinking that she would quote out of some boring manual or other . |
| 3 | Now you can cross Snow White off and all we 've got left to find is witch , oh , there it is , right go from the W , W , W , from the W , right now come down , oh I 'd better help with this one because it 's diagonal , I T C |
| 4 | I felt somewhat thrown by this information , having assumed Sergei had simply made a mistake in the Christian name . |
| 5 | If finally I become wholly submerged in this solipsism there could be no other rational ethic for me than egoism . |
| 6 | I do not mean by this that they have had to invent new beliefs , but they do have to adopt the voluntary camaraderie of the sects . |
| 7 | I do not mean by this that I expect managers to cry , or to clasp one another like footballers after a goal has been won . |
| 8 | I do not arrive at this conclusion lightly , but through years of painstaking research and at no small cost to my health . |
| 9 | I do not conclude from this that Britain should leave the EEC . |
| 10 | I do not propose at this stage to try to provide an answer . |
| 11 | ‘ I do not wish at this stage to disclose the nature of the circumstantial evidence . ’ |
| 12 | I do not find in this decision a sufficient support for the wide proposition for which Mr. Collins contends . |
| 13 | The judge , struggling to contain his anger , said : ‘ You are lucky I do not deal with this as a contempt of court . ’ |
| 14 | Er My Lords I do not see within this of amendments the answers that we want , I see two or three narrow misses . |
| 15 | Now , if I do n't go to this phone , what would that look like , it would n't be just dialling , would it , she lied , I 'm just trying to compare the two , because they are quite different . |
| 16 | ‘ Women are a great idea , ’ Crawford had said the previous year , ‘ but I do n't go for this marriage bit . |
| 17 | I do n't hold with this therapy , but if the S.S.O. is backing you up , keep on your way . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't mean on this trip . |
| 19 | Well certainly I do n't think at this point there is a need for more than one settlement . |
| 20 | Well I do n't think in this area |
| 21 | So I do n't feature in this ? |
| 22 | I do n't look at this end of the market very often , so it is a bit of an eye-opener for me regarding the amount of controls there are for changing the sound . |
| 23 | Moxie said , ‘ I do n't approve of this nonsense , ’ and walked out onto the landing . |
| 24 | The thing I do n't like about this amendment is it actually moves us nowhere and we can not after what we 've seen over the summer , move nowhere . |
| 25 | He added with a hint of apology : ‘ I do n't understand about this sort of thing . ’ |
| 26 | I do n't brood on this too long because this is n't a long tube journey . |
| 27 | ‘ I think this war should be stopped so we can go home , ’ said Flight-Lieutenant Adrian Nichol ; ‘ I do n't agree with this war . ’ |
| 28 | I do n't agree with this new elitism it 's what in your mind that counts , you should n't deny anyone anything . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't agree with this at all . |
| 30 | the trouble is though when you have these meetings you go and people say well I do n't agree with this and I do n't agree with that and somebody says well this is n't the matter for the P T A this is a matter for the governors and then when you try and , like Gary I 'll go and approach with the governors , surely this is n't a matter for the governors , this really ought to be , you know , the , |