Example sentences of "[vb base] this [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean Mr Chairman it may just say honestly , I mean this is among ourselves from the commercial point of view there 's no doubt about it , I 'm in the grocery trade , the more you get on a lorry when you deliver you get every single |
| 2 | Well this is where , I mean this is like this comes into omega squared will came in to electronics . |
| 3 | She had another prescription and it was nearly three weeks and she still , now , I mean this is like Five weeks she 's still got like a residual |
| 4 | Doing something you like , if you can give yourself half an hour , or an hour , you know just say this is for me , and for me only . |
| 5 | I 'd say when you go to this afternoon er ring the doorbell and say er just get handed a crash helmet and say this is for coming after . |
| 6 | Some say this is in fact useful because it keeps people busy at a time when , as we have seen , it is probably too painful to have time on your hands to sit and reflect . |
| 7 | I realise this is by no means straight-forward , but Raymond Van Ermen has made an approach to the EC ( ! ) . |
| 8 | I imagine this is on the grounds that there can be no profitable reclamation of the goods in default of settlement ! |
| 9 | I hope this is of some use to you . |
| 10 | I hope this is of some use to you . |
| 11 | Most important thing when you receive this is on on day one of the assignment er Douglas is to not just accept that list as it is . |
| 12 | Yeah they 're all nice nice girls you know this is like the other week we was here playing the other team and one of the other team was swearing you know , and particularly you know the girls in , might have not they have the they used to play for Black Bear and you know the that lady that 's up there , she still swears and we stopped her from here used to f this , f that and f the other , we did , we stopped her said if you ca n't find a better word than that to use I should n't bother , you know As you know Shirl do n't like that . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose this is of Livesey . |
| 14 | His manner was that of a man resigned to repeated interruptions : ‘ I suppose this is about Mr Francis ; you 'd better come into the office . ’ |
| 15 | I suppose this is behind the accusations . ’ |
| 16 | We find this is by far the best . ’ |
| 17 | Erm on the issue of building materials I feel this is of particular importance to Hertfordshire residents living as they do on the gravel there . |
| 18 | I think this is about our physical boundaries again , as it was in Alison 's story , showing how fragile the self-image of girls can be , how easily invaded by others — and also , how difficult it is to like your body if it is curvaceous , if you are naturally fleshy , fat , large-breasted or pear-shaped , as many of us are . |
| 19 | I think this is for a number of reasons — feminism does tend to post racism as a sort of subsidiary of patriarchy for example . |
| 20 | I think this is for you Robert this this er this job not this job this opportunity . |
| 21 | ‘ There are some people who think this is like a camp joke , the way we dress is so bad it 's good . ’ |
| 22 | But I think this is like his other symptoms . |
| 23 | And I think this is behind I made some adverse comment about the Prime Minister 's comment about the burden of the old — to be fair , I think one of the problems she probably had in mind was the fact not of the immediate peak of elderly people , but the peak in the twenty/twenties where the full impact of the erm pension scheme that we 've got will hit with a considerably older population — can we afford it ? |
| 24 | DEAR GREAT POP THINGS , I THINK THIS IS IN BAD TASTE MY FRIEND JUST COMMI … |
| 25 | Erm , but I think that we also think this is in an in the state of philosophy nowadays . |
| 26 | well I think this is in the very early stages er of the association when things were |
| 27 | Erm I 've mentioned a couple of things on the handout , one from this paper by Sigmund , another from I think this is in the British Journal of Psychiatry , I think they were writing . |
| 28 | The reason they do this is in order to link general criticisms of the capitalist economic system with a specific analysis of the poverty of the elderly , but in doing so they shift their point of reference . |
| 29 | And the way we do this is by resort to moral principles , which we identify , weigh , and try to apply to the issue before us . |
| 30 | ‘ I presume this is on the itinerary for the royal tour . ’ |