Example sentences of "of this [noun sg] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just because I happen to be President of this company I do n't play the Great White Chief , ’ he was fond of saying . |
| 2 | ‘ You and I are going to get filthily drunk , Prentice , and if by the time we get to the bottom of this bottle I have n't got some sort of sense out of you I 'm going to break it over your thick fucking skull . ’ |
| 3 | WHETHER HEROIN is at the root of this unreliability I do n't know for sure , nor am I about to proscribe the freedom — or is that stupidity — of anyone to take whatever substance they choose to take , be it alcohol , tobacco , heroin or carpet cleaner . |
| 4 | At the beginning of this chapter I noted how the distinctions made between political systems often emerged from current political conflicts and preoccupations , and this feature is very much in evidence in the political sociology of recent decades . |
| 5 | At the end of this month I hand over the care of the diocese to Bishop John Crowley . |
| 6 | Kurt Masur conducted one of the finest ‘ live ’ performances of this piece I have ever heard when he conducted it with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Nottingham during an English tour a few years ago . |
| 7 | What the psychiatrists or psychoanalysts make of this condition I do not know . |
| 8 | But in the grey eyes of this female I read only a kind of concealed hostility . |
| 9 | Even after the selection of this team I went home , switched on the television news , only to find that the weather forecast predicted blizzards in Scotland . |