Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] be [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I read I like to sit up , if I start to lie down I was like this . |
| 2 | [ he ] … began to understand for the first time just how much there was in this business of being a ship 's officer . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is for this reason that , in Braudel 's work at least , it is much more generously defined to include various stable but non-material factors . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is in this context that Evangelicals and Catholics have to look afresh at the troublesome problem of speaking of the sacrament as a ‘ sacrifice ’ . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is in this area of human relations we have most to study and most to learn . |
| 6 | My brother Frankie and sister Liza were a little older than I was , so perhaps it was for this reason that I seemed to end up doing most of the chores . |
| 7 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 8 | perhaps it was at this time that a clerk associated with the rebel Poitevins produced a document designed to show that Henry and Eleanor were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity and their marriage therefore invalid . |
| 9 | Whichever explanation is revealed by the major research effort that is still needed for the rest of the 1980s , the population changes discussed above have also had a major impact on rural communities , and so it is to this topic that attention is now turned . |
| 10 | So it was in this instance ; that is to say , my receiving the letter from Miss Kenton , containing as it did , along with its long , rather unrevealing passages , an unmistakable nostalgia for Darlington Hall , and — I am quite sure of this — distinct hints of her desire to return here , obliged me to see my staff plan afresh . |
| 11 | So what was behind this ? |
| 12 | Nevertheless there was within this strategy still a special role for the luxury super-cinemas . |
| 13 | Thus it was in this context , with Soviet leaders feeling that although they possessed an adequate deterrence , it was only minimally adequate , that the decision was taken to install missiles in Cuba ( see Horelick : 1964 ) . |
| 14 | I do n't like it , I 'd sooner it be like this you know I mean |
| 15 | ‘ Some time later I was in this little Jewish club when Leslie came in with his minder . |
| 16 | Oh , God , why was it that whenever she was around this man her wits went begging ? |
| 17 | I know well I was like this in n it ? |
| 18 | So here I am in this damp cell now . |
| 19 | I mean so even something 's like this on the organic , you might not have a clue what polyethylene is or polypropylene or anything else , but you can read the pie chart and work out what what 's going on . |
| 20 | I mean , even one 's like this . |
| 21 | Well there was between this particular Wesleyan Chapel and er in our street it was , as it 's practically opposite the u present union office . |
| 22 | you ruin your chances so about three times a week the comes in to arrange my poll tax and all this and they get going you know well why should a bloke that having a big house and he only pays the same rate as them so I said , well it 's like this as far I 'm concerned I said you know no bloke works perhaps twice as many hours as you do he chooses |
| 23 | Yeah , well it 's like this fellow that got done for speeding . |
| 24 | Tom Tom Tom knows what it 's like cos last time I was up there yesterday Tom was and Chris Turner was up there and we went past an heap and it and we said is that a lorry-load and Dennis said , well it was at this morning . |
| 25 | Well he 's in this one . |
| 26 | I saw the bits coming off her fag She said you stupid bastard well he was like this were n't he ? |
| 27 | The trouble is if it 's like this here it 's like this in all of them . |
| 28 | Wo n't it be on this lot ? |
| 29 | JE : Presumably it 's for this reason that he asked Plomer to collaborate on Gloriana instead . |
| 30 | then I was on this roller and then we got er started up at the power station with the |