Example sentences of "[vb infin] [det] this " in BNC.

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1 The use of telex machines increased 7 per cent in the year 1987-88 and the demand for fax machines will outstrip that this year .
2 do you want half this orange ?
3 Do you want half this orange ?
4 Did you know that this one ?
5 You could n't buy all this working at Lyons bakery or the Black Cat factory .
6 You do not need all this to establish that a man is drunk or that there is mayhem when he is in charge of a class .
7 It was wonderful if you were going to service five or ten artists , but one artist did n't need all this .
8 Why do I need all this detail ?
9 But erm generally you start getting the attitude problem when you think , Oh I do n't need all this old rubbish the instructor taught me do I ?
10 going on , and you do n't need all this garbage in it as well .
11 ‘ But I do n't need all this , ’ Katherine had protested .
12 Did I really need all this ?
13 I 'm not a child , I do n't need all this protection and concern !
14 Er , I mean , deregulation a bill er is not perhaps gon na affect the numbers of statutory instruments going through the house and I think that er the city would continue without the statutory instrument , er I think the country would continue , it would go on if we 'd had n't passed these regulations and in essence are these four new statutory instruments really going to help run the country more effectively er are we imposing duties on auditors er and regulators er with the securities er er tied up with the investment board , another quango , er do we need all this ?
15 ‘ I do n't need all this . ’
16 So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs
17 So you do n't need all this , surely ?
18 The Labour group will keep within the government capping limits , obviously we will , and therefore the council tax increase is getting no more than about four percent , so you ca n't claim all this growth is gon na , well it certainly ca n't count all this growth is going to er , with this ma , massive increase in Council Tax .
19 ‘ How do you know all this ? ’
20 ‘ How do you know all this then ? ’
21 ‘ How do you know all this ? ’
22 Okay , maybe I should know all this by now , but I do n't and I bet there are a lot of new readers who also read the mag and in many of the reviews there comes a point where they say to themselves , ‘ what 's one of them ? ’
23 How could their daughter know all this ?
24 ‘ If he has no contact with the embassy , how do we know all this about him ? ’
25 One reviewer , John Naughton in The Observer , went a little over the top when he remarked : ‘ How does Mr Gooch know all this ?
26 How does it know all this stuff ? ’ said Angalo , suspiciously .
27 But I do n't know all this new technology , I learned the old printing .
28 How do you know all this ?
29 ‘ How do you know all this , Marie ? ’
30 ‘ How do you know all this ? ’ he whispered , with constricted voice .
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