Example sentences of "this [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | This bounding of the heart , this clarity of vision , this energizing , this moral certainty , this exaltation , this civic virtue , this murmured I love you , are all caused by a low-level smell emitted by one partner and subconsciously nosed by the other . |
| 2 | This says I was good at the doctor 's today ? |
| 3 | ( Very occasionally we have a meeting that goes on later than this and if/when this happens I 'll let you know afterwards . ) |
| 4 | When this happened I used to make up elaborate and probably unconvincing stories about car crashes , burns , skin grafts , incompetent surgeons and so on , anything rather than use the word ‘ disease ’ . |
| 5 | The last time this happened I just managed to catch a glimpse of his two black eyes , going down for the third time , before I landed him . |
| 6 | By the time this appears I will have been here a year ( 11 January ) . |
| 7 | This meant I had to get in close . |
| 8 | This meant I faced a five-hour train journey , with two changes , and then — having retrieved my bicycle from the guard 's van — a fifteen-mile uphill ride . |
| 9 | This meant I had to get hay from the top barn for the rest of my cattle , which were still outside . |
| 10 | This meant I could blame the problems on other people or on situations outside myself . |
| 11 | This meant I did n't have to get risk life and limb to get a good close up shot . |
| 12 | Whatever could this mean I wondered ? |
| 13 | When Maggie had perched herself on one she said , Does this mean I 'm being interviewed ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Does this mean I 'm a lymphomaniac ? ’ |
| 15 | Did this mean I was still under his spell ? |
| 16 | Does this mean I 'm more likely to fail my probation ? |
| 17 | ‘ Does this mean I have to go and retrieve the toad from her bed ? ’ |
| 18 | What I ever did to annoy Old Saul , whether it was the heat that made him especially cantankerous , whether Agnes really had kicked him in the head when she arrived , as Mrs Clamp says-none of this do I know . |
| 19 | Er , I do n't need this do I if you 've got that ? |
| 20 | This means I have more than paid for my FARMERS WEEKLY subscription for this year … and probably several to come . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm fine , ’ said Henry , ‘ but this means I 'd better just pop out for a second . ’ |
| 22 | Not so much a gentleman actually , more a devious swine , since this means I get the overhang which is meant to be the crux . |
| 23 | This means I can now go on to the fourth stage , a five day course in the Alps , before working for 30 days alongside a qualified guide as a kind of apprentice . |
| 24 | This means I have no choice but to travel down in my car on my own — very environmentally unfriendly I realise ! |
| 25 | ‘ This means I 'll have to leave tomorrow morning with Janice . |
| 26 | ‘ This means I miss my connection and then it creates a scatter at Middlesbrough as they try to fit me on to a train to get to Hartlepool in time . |
| 27 | ‘ This means I would be working for £1.50 an hour , ’ said Cath . |
| 28 | So this means I got ta walk home all on my little own-some ? |
| 29 | This means I got ta walk home all on my own-some ? |
| 30 | Well I have made some notes since you j can I just walk down and get them I want this to happen I made some notes , here . |