Example sentences of "[prep] this [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | So when you 're talking about marketing and the marketing manager 's in the audience , you could say , ‘ Whoops , I 'm on dangerous ground — I know John over there knows a lot more about this than I do . ’ |
2 | EG & G — Dr Wickram will know much more about this than I do — oversees such things as nuclear-weapons tests and the so-called Star Wars . |
3 | I dare say knows more about this than I do . |
4 | ‘ I 'm probably more worried about this than you are . |
5 | Put it this way Trace I am more petrified than about this than you are . |
6 | This found that girls who had felt isolated and embarrassed about being pregnant or having babies felt less stigma about this after they had attended the units and could take a much more realistic view of their situation . |
7 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
8 | I do n't want to get over-emotional about this but I really am massively proud of the things that The Smiths have done and achieved and from that point of view , of course , it 's all really sad … |
9 | So I used to go with him , and incidently he was a , he was very good on classical music , although we never went into this although I 'd got very close to him but I 'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know , and never talked about this but I 'm sure he was . |
10 | Oh I could tell you a lot about this but I 'll I 'll just tell you a little bit that 's all . |
11 | And you doing it and sometimes I have to say , I 'm sorry about this but I 've , I 've , I 've , I 've got ta go to the ! |
12 | Hey do you care about you know the other day we were talking about the erm I wanted to get one of the councillors on to talk about this but I I ca n't find the right one . |
13 | I 'm a bit weary about this but he seems |
14 | Some , such as Schmenner ( 1987 ) , feel so strongly about this that they talk of ‘ the black holes of cost accounting ’ . |
15 | but at the same time I would want to afford er , you as heads of departments er er everybody 's heads of department a little bit of leeway what i what if , what wa wa we have to be careful about this that we set a standard but allow a little leeway because all departments are slightly different and want to approach things |
16 | We feel so strongly about this that we would say even in a course offered by a University in Britain it would be most desirable for students to ground their work in some hands-on experience in a Third World setting . ’ |
17 | But erm er I I I I really feel very strongly about this that we all know that democracy does n't just consist of electing a a national parliament once in five years , we all know the strength of democracy comprises that where the complex of local institutions of local bodies made up of people serving in different ways , not necessarily elected , that is what comprises democracy and it is that which is being undermined again by this measure in this in this Bill and I do say to Your Lordships that for the reasons given by both my Noble Friends er Lord and by , by the Noble Lord , Lord Lord er that there has been no demand for this |
18 | As for breast feeding , I feel so strongly about this that I can hardly express myself ! |
19 | I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs . |
20 | She 'd thought a lot about this since they 'd planned the trip . |
21 | ‘ You can tell me all about this while you pour me a drink , ’ he said quietly and they went into the kitchen . |
22 | Nobody knows anything about this except you and me , and we are friends , are n't we , Shelley ? |
23 | Council leader , Coun John Williams ( Lab ) , when told of the plans by The Northern Echo said : ‘ I will need to find out much more about this before we can decide we can support it or not . ’ |
24 | We will be glad to talk to you about this before you borrow . |
25 | We shall not make any comments about this until we have had a chance to inspect a longer time span . |
26 | We leave the reader to think about this until we reach Section 1.11 . |
27 | Susan did not know how she felt about this until she saw that he had painted himself and herself half-way up or half-way down , looking up or down at their reflections in the water . |
28 | Right , and this is this little bit of it , now , made them come back to us and say , well but yes , that 's not enough on its own , or that 's too much on its own , or whatever , or there is no hope , you may as well forget about this because we 've already done the study , or somebody in Japan 's already written off , whatever , but from this point in time , let us , as the sales company , get the information together as it relates to . |
29 | The the Jolly George er was a ship that was loaded with arms er to send to Russia , to for our the use of our troops in Russia , and the sailors refused to sail it , and there was quite a to do about this because they 'd got the steam up and it was ready to go but they never went . |
30 | Daphne tended to phone her just after six , which meant missing fifteen or twenty minutes of the news , but Cecilia never said anything about this because she would far rather miss the news than hurt Daphne . |