Example sentences of "this i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead . |
| 2 | This I overplayed by spending too much time in the rear of the stalls watching rehearsals , and an assistant would take over the Royal deliveries . |
| 3 | I says , Aye , but I 'm fed up with this I says , I 'm learning nothing . |
| 4 | He started balancing like this I goes , I 'm fil I 'm taping you not filming you , they think you 're filming them , you know , they look at the microphone and they go , hi ! |
| 5 | After this I put my name forward as a candidate for the official biography and so informed my editor at Collins , Philip Ziegler . |
| 6 | A bit more promising , it traces the possessors of Newton — Colonels , and Lords , and then the Thomson connection , but this I glean only from Nairn in Darkness and Light : ‘ In 1887 Newton was acquired by R. B. Finlay , Q.C . ’ : |
| 7 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 8 | To illustrate this I punched a row on a punchcard of six punched holes and six blanks , alternating it on the one row . |
| 9 | ‘ Since I was wearing this I assume it 's mine . |
| 10 | On top of everything , he gave me 500 dollars for my twenty-first birthday and it 's this I intend sharing between Jenny and the family . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If the bishop had not exercised his judgment at all , we would have compelled him : but it is objected that he has not exercised it rightly ; to this I answer that we have no authority to say how he should have decided . |
| 12 | ‘ If the bishop had not exercised his judgment at all , we would have compelled him : but it is objected that he has not exercised it rightly ; to this I answer that we have no authority to say how he should have decided . |
| 13 | Before this I told my people not to watch Yorkshire . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Do you know , before this I went out and bought Tesco 's own-brand baked beans to live on for the next month , ’ she remarked , rather unconvincingly . |
| 15 | I says I dare n't fancy going out in this I went upstairs and er , it 's always the same in n it ? |
| 16 | This I omit . |
| 17 | So after all this I felt I was ready to retire . |
| 18 | When I very deliberately try and remember it like this I know I end up remembering it and describing it being like a bar scene in a musical , where everyone that the camera pans past is a very definite character , and they 're all so eager when the camera is on them , clapping and laughing and tapping their feet to the music so convincingly . |
| 19 | Billy , the Havildar-Major , was a tiny , wizened man , always smiling and very devout , who never went to sleep without first singing softly to himself all three verses of ‘ Jesus loves me , this I know ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I know naught of how you came into this plight , girl , and I care little enough , but this I know — you have broken the spell-wall and opened Andernesse to the powers of the dark ! |
| 21 | Some people do this I know ; they say ‘ if you take this one then we 'll help you out over another ’ — deals in other words . |
| 22 | ‘ It is not usual in August , this I know , ’ fiercely , ‘ but I do not compose this menu . |
| 23 | This I know too . |
| 24 | ‘ This I know , ’ said Llewelyn , his face dark . |
| 25 | Anyhow I said well I should n't say this I know and I know times have altered , but I said it was n't er I said I 'm not saying it because Martine and Nicola were in it , but I said to me it was n't the same as when they were in it . |
| 26 | I had a thousands ships , but no matter where , you 're the one for me baby this I know cos it 's true love , you 're the one I 'm dreaming of true blue baby I love you . |
| 27 | I suppose , by saying this I 've already gone back on my word . |
| 28 | Yeah I have but I do n't how to do them like this I 've not seen it been d drawn out like that . |
| 29 | Every other time I 've been in somebody 's flat like this I 've known where I am by the books . ’ |
| 30 | If you do want to ask me anything about this I 've got some little booklets or I 'm sure some other people here could talk to you about it . |