Example sentences of "this is [pron] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will be conscious of the camera but if this is something they normally do , and if you handle the occasion unobtrusively , allowing some run-in time for everyone to settle down , you can get useable examples of language in action . |
| 2 | We also see on page one , three , four and this is something you also mentioned Mr that if you 've got certain costs they will be covered and you gave a number of examples , one of them you said , er , we were covered by insurance |
| 3 | This is something you really need to know , especially if you 've always lived round the corner from your family , and could n't bear to move . |
| 4 | If the seven-to ten-day period includes the odd party or meal out ( and this is something you occasionally do ) just record all the details . |
| 5 | This is something I really believe , but I 'm not forcing anyone else to believe it too . |
| 6 | Further , it could not be supposed this is what we now believe . |
| 7 | And so we 'll say , well that 's what we planned to achieve , this is what we actually achieved . |
| 8 | When Croat historians have subsequently spoken of the " Bleiburg Tragedy " this is what they really mean : and the massacres which were to continue in many parts of northern Yugoslavia during the weeks and months which followed were among the consequences of that victory and that " tragedy " . |
| 9 | it 's all in the price there , because this is what you actually get very often , you 're ringing some places up and they 'll say , oh but you you had VAT through this week . |
| 10 | And this is what he frequently does . |
| 11 | His Permanent Secretary at that time was my cousin Wilfrid Bourne , and this is what he later wrote to me : |
| 12 | Because this is what he always felt after his father died — that if he could just speak to him now , he could really open his heart and say everything , without feeling that strange mute on his vocal chords . |
| 13 | His relationship with the kids is one between equals , but they also seem to expect him to be a wise man , and this is what he sometimes expects of himself . |
| 14 | This is what I really want to do . |
| 15 | This is what I gradually realised . |