Example sentences of "[v-ing] it this " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hung there for a second before slithering sideways , and as he slipped towards the ground the seladang hooked blindly at his body , knocking it this way and that , until one of its long horns caught and held . |
| 2 | Anybody trying to bring about a major transformation in a science must direct attention to the facts as he sees them : to a herbalist in the tradition of Culpeper it was an important fact that a particular herb was collected under a waxing or a waning moon ; for one of Liebig 's pupils analysing it this was not a relevant fact at all . |
| 3 | He sat for hours staring into a hand mirror , tilting it this way and that and bending his head . |
| 4 | That was the way his mind worked ; he would be struck by a sentence or a phrase , then he would worry at it , turning it this way and that . |
| 5 | Did n't know she was getting it , I was getting it this morning . |
| 6 | giving it this |
| 7 | ‘ If you look the way the snow falls , ’ he said hesitantly , ‘ you can see the air conditioning is blowing it this way , ’ he pointed , ‘ so it piles up more on this side of things than that side . |
| 8 | It would be better for doing it this way . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm so bloody glad we 're not doing it this time , ’ he said . |
| 10 | With the possible exception of Mrs Major , who has to struggle not to look cheerful at the mention of leaving 10 Downing Street , and Sir Denis Thatcher ( ’ I 'm so bloody glad we 're not doing it this time ’ ) , every good political consort must learn how to be a good loser . |
| 11 | ‘ We were a bit nervous about doing it this year because of the recession but we are getting 5,000–7,000 calls every day , ’ she said . |
| 12 | What do I hope will happen ? " and " Why am I doing it this way ? " |
| 13 | The only big difference in doing it this way is that you do n't get to specify a name or icon for the item . |
| 14 | We thinking well why are we doing it this way ? |
| 15 | I , I , I think Chairman , that I , having to put very good money after bad doing it this way , I think it 's perfectly true , people think of Shropshire as a rural county , and I think film producers will be people erm , if they want to come here they will and it 's hardly Council business , taking huge amounts erm , well known production , but er , quite often major films have been |
| 16 | I suppose doing it this way limits the no of participants to how many I can cope with . |
| 17 | When we 're doing it this way , we can forget about the , with this X , X two is going to be three point one squared |
| 18 | But I 'm certain , by doing it this way , we will encourage females to put in for these these posts . |
| 19 | They 'll take risks Let's do so- and-so , and have a go at doing it this way And they 're often idealistic . |
| 20 | you might be better just doing it this way , just work out what thirty per cent of it is and then take it away from the original |
| 21 | And that would be , that would be , so if we 're doing it this way , right , let's let's erm , forget about where we are sitting at the moment now , and just look we 're in a helicopter looking at these ships now , so this one radios you in the helicopter and says , that ship S is on a bearing of forty five degrees |
| 22 | But , but , but from the em from the employers point of view , what he stands to lose if that person 's away from work , I mean , all all all the er , chap 's gon na lose is his , his income so , if he was doing it this in his own case , he would be looking to replace . |
| 23 | yeah it might be , I do n't know , I think usually Roy does that but I think Dave 's doing it this year or something erm er that tends to be , that tended to be something that I had difficulty with as a student because again you could n't just sort of find one book that , that covered the lecture course |
| 24 | Yeah well I 'm , I 'm gon na try and get the final year lecture for Tuesday sorted actually on Saturday and erm it 's usually , it 's usually Guy but I think I 'm doing it this week , yeah , because I 've got quite a few to do on things like racist in the media and Guy 's mate Dennis has just written a book and he 's given me a manuscript of it and it 's about how racist psychology is which is |
| 25 | Who 's doing it this time ? |
| 26 | I had every intention of doing it this morning . |
| 27 | Well we 're doing it this one . |
| 28 | Oh it would n't be me cos I 'm , I 'm doing it this year and I only thought of it too late |
| 29 | this morning , have you seen Paula doing it this morning ? |
| 30 | Hasan hunched over the wheel of his car with a great effort of concentration , swinging it this way and that to avoid the atrocious pot-holes . |