Example sentences of "[prep] this [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a great deal about this here . |
| 2 | ‘ About this here schoolin' , did n't yer teacher help you ? ’ |
| 3 | To think about this even for a moment is to see that something is amiss . |
| 4 | Any loan from the bank involves a risk of default , and the bank will be concerned about this even though it has sought security from the firm . |
| 5 | But I think they talked about this again several times . |
| 6 | We 're not fucking arguing about this again are we ? |
| 7 | WHEN Lady ‘ Bubbles ’ Rothermere died unexpectedly a month ago the obituary columns were filled with charming anecdotes about this most famous of rich , fun-loving , party going socialites . |
| 8 | I 'll just tell you about this Can I just tell you about this just for a minute ? |
| 9 | It 's all very well keeping mentally flexible and all the rest of the who-har , but if you , er , my , my mother stopped and said to her many years ago , she said , you do n't look your age , you do n't act your age , you do n't sound your age , you do n't think your age , but you are your age , and this is absolutely true , as you grow older , nothing will stop the fact that your arteries get a little harder , so that , you know , that you get raised blood pressure quite easily if your agitated and you are , for some reason you , you have to puff a lot more , I was reading about this just recently , and these are changes that take place whatever you do , you can exercise , and you can take vitamins and you can keep your weight down , but you age . |
| 10 | How about this instead ? said the guy , showing me ‘ The Story Of The Blues ’ . |
| 11 | I was aware of the enormous distances , especially for those in the West , although I learned a lot more about this simply be being there . |
| 12 | Everything about this torpidly told tale rings loud , false and farcical . |
| 13 | I think it genuinely irresponsible that someone with my theatrical track-record has written a play about this internationally known theatrical figure yet it has only been seen by a few people . ’ |
| 14 | Melzack and I and others have written about this extensively . |
| 15 | And the embarrassed questioner retreats , apologising profusely , wondering why he ever fell into such absurd anxiety about this luminously sensible body of doctrine … |
| 16 | I 'm going to try and get them to come on and talk about this tomorrow . |
| 17 | ‘ I heard about this today from auld Timmins , him that 's the under-manager to Brackenridge in Soft Bric-a-brac and Genteel Furnishings . |
| 18 | I had n't planned to talk about this today . |
| 19 | I 'm sure you 'll hear more about this today . |
| 20 | We 're talking about this partly because of the document passed in the ministry in which , everybody has avidly read and erm has been talked about after the seventeenth er , in York in July . |
| 21 | We urge the Government to do something about this urgently . |
| 22 | The only modification offered by Law in response to the outcry from Unionist free-traders was that food taxes would be imposed only if requested by the Dominions ; after his talks with Borden , there was no doubt about this anyway . |
| 23 | Worker in child protection are , or should be , confident about this anyway . |
| 24 | ‘ She does n't know about this yet , ’ said Marie . |
| 25 | We are not in the least angry about this rather hurried wedding , so why have n't you brought her ? |
| 26 | What am I saying as we sit here talking about this rather strange difficulty that we find ourselves in ? |
| 27 | I heard a conversation about this shortly before I left Laputa . |
| 28 | We do not condone the bad quality and deplorable appearance of some of the speculative building between the wars , nor the lack of physical planning and the wasteful development of land ( often good farming land ) ; we shall have more to say about this later in the chapter . |
| 29 | When relay RLA contacts are closed ( this is a relay operating as a switch — but more about this later ) , transistor TR6 is switched on by way of diode D16 and potential divider chain resistors R25 , R26 and connects pin 11 of IC6 to ground through resistor R28 . |
| 30 | All scholars agree that the text of Boniface IV 's letter which is quoted here was a forgery of the eleventh century , and something must be said about this later . |