Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 Or who sees meaning in this change ?
2 As I sat there , I realized that I disliked sitting beside this girl very much indeed .
3 So you go shopping in this weather , non ? ’
4 It 's become a truism that we despise ageing in this culture , and I see few signs of that abating .
5 I asked if she liked living in this country .
6 If you start thinking about this game it will drive you crazy . ’
7 " Not if we keep gossiping like this . "
8 So I carried on walking and they start going through this bleeding wood , well they had me climbing over three fence things , all like them metal you know like them metal fences at wood ?
9 And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is .
10 Erm and he started coming to this centre he he came to the centre once or twice with my other brother for some advice I think , welfare right advice .
11 Except that it if it involved waiting in this corridor for much longer , one of the security cameras might start to register her despite all diversionary moves , and she should therefore now take a break of at least six hours before coming back here .
12 Many have only a few hours to spare , but they enjoy helping in this way .
13 This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so .
14 FIGURE 2 It soon became apparent when I started working on this quick landscape sketch that the Polychromos Pastels are equally well suited to a more painterly method of handling too
15 People came and went as she sat thinking about this .
16 That 's a very difficult issue , and when we started working with this particular group of people they said , ‘ We ca n't do it .
17 How … by balancing the boat with moving arms … and adding weights in the bottom … everyone is equal when they go sailing on this
18 He 's brilliant when he gets going like this .
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