Example sentences of "[prep] this i " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you joke about this I 'll put a rope round your neck . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If there was anyone else I could possibly talk to about this I would . |
| 3 | If you do want to ask me anything about this I 've got some little booklets or I 'm sure some other people here could talk to you about it . |
| 4 | Why I 'm very positive about this I am a rheumatoid arthritis person , have been since I oh I do n't know happen to be in my fifties I think . |
| 5 | The industry which we are part of is in excuse me , is in er sorry about this I 've dashed across here |
| 6 | To find out more about this I recently made up a small collection of questions on percentages . |
| 7 | But when I inquired about this I was told : ‘ they belt the kid later , in private ’ . |
| 8 | In thinking about this I concluded that the basic requirements for teaching music — in addition to certain skills essential to any effective teaching of any subject — are a basic sense of rhythm and pitch , delight in organized sound and ensemble work , and a real interest in developing children 's own creative powers . |
| 9 | Thank you chairman , I , I second er 's motion , erm trying to be not political about this I got some figures from the er county council which indicate that from the first of April ninety-two to the thirty-first of December ninety-two eighty-six members attended committee meetings of which they were not members . |
| 10 | So er when I found out about this I 've equipped them with a er |
| 11 | And er usually , never said a word he 's like a friend and erm , this woman who I said to her , mind he do n't do anything about this I suppose . |
| 12 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 13 | In a book such as this I can not say more than that about how the modern fieldworking anthropologist conducts his research . |
| 14 | If the bottom is too weedy for this I continually re-bait and cast . |
| 15 | What petty little tin god had been responsible for this I do not know , for Mr Herbert Morrison , the leader of the LCC as it was then , had set the example after the great fire of December 1961 by taking his bed into the next office to his , and staying there all night . |
| 16 | Too bad the horrendous loading system leaves a nasty taste in the mouth — had it not been for this I 'd have cheerfully awarded around 85% ( disk owners take note ) . |
| 17 | I was pleased with W F Owtram 's opening two lines : ‘ Was it for this I quitted Rhondda , /In my dreams at large to wander … |
| 18 | For this I consciously blamed my parents : it seemed to me that instead of writing to me , as other parents wrote to their daughters , they had written me off . |
| 19 | Teachers found me irresponsible and anti-social , and for this I had to suffer . |
| 20 | For this I would most certainly cross oceans , let alone forgo a couple of treatments . |
| 21 | For this I 'm going to pond media — the dark brown baked clay granules known as Hortag . |
| 22 | It was no use offering him money , for he would immediately spend it on drink , but I suggested that he try his hand at very light work — sweeping the hospital floor , later a little gardening , and for this I paid him in meals cooked by Toma at home . |
| 23 | For this I decided to do a painting looking from my conservatory through the windows into the garden with two white chairs as the focal point . |
| 24 | For this I use a fairly simple jig and accurate setting of the saw . |
| 25 | I plead with our commissioners and their counterparts in the Roman Catholic side to concentrate on this issue and not to dally for this I believe is the golden key to that greater , completer , richer and more effective church that is surely coming under God . |
| 26 | Come the summer holiday which was August Bank holiday , for this I think we were away from school a month . |
| 27 | The reason for this I think is , not in spite of , but because their work is so , ultimately , sociological . |
| 28 | I grew up as a child with a longing to hunt big game , and from 1930 to 1940 I took every opportunity to do so ; for this I have no regrets . |
| 29 | For this I thank Selina 's duty-free perfumes and bath essences , the laundry-fresh tang of her clothes , the costly oiliness of her flesh and its smooth secretions . |
| 30 | The very last thing I note is which direction a swim faces and for this I carry a small compass . |