Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do we ask Sir John to restrain the soldiers — which he can not do — or do we bind him not to pursue or hound us for this action ? |
| 2 | It would be impractical to attempt to review or catalogue them in this study and , although we will mention some specific products , we will confine this section mainly to illustrating general authoring issues . |
| 3 | Ask yourself the question , ‘ Is it my desire , my greed , my wish to be in control that drives me in this matter , or do I feel the lightness of purpose that is a mark of the guidance from within ? ’ |
| 4 | It was drink that got me into this mess . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer . |
| 6 | It 's your thinking that got you into this place ! ’ |
| 7 | Er that concludes ours at this moment Mr . |
| 8 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 9 | The sorts of premises that lend themselves to this kind of development tend to be your large country house type accommodation , miles from anywhere . |
| 10 | Rather than follow him into this detail , it is more important here to underline an important general characteristic which Hobbes says the claim has . |
| 11 | Er and I can think of erm nothing better than to leave you with this slide er which I think sums up where we 're coming from today and what we 'd like you to take away from today . |
| 12 | For now she was torn between two places and it was not the thought of her father that bound her to this place . |
| 13 | Despite much popular misconception , there are relatively few individuals or families that find themselves in this position . |
| 14 | Her substantial and brilliant book A Rhetoric of the Unreal uses the work of French intellectual stars in a familiar and matter-of-fact way , without any of the bedazzlement that surrounds them on this side of the Channel . |
| 15 | This ‘ Gish ’ out-take is no earth-shattering pop classic , just a steely example of sweaty-fingered , control-freak intelligent-metal , and it still sounds eight to ten times superior to the Brit stuff that surrounds it in this week 's pile of singles . |
| 16 | The true cats of the genus Felis have a different attachment of the larynx that robs them of this ability . |
| 17 | Rather than commit you at this stage to the costs of detailed accounting , due diligence and contract drafting , which may subsequently prove to be abortive , MAS would intend performing a short key features review devised to highlight potential deal breaking points and other inevitably contentious issues ( such as possible earn-out terms ) which will need to be resolved with the vendors prior to proceeding . |
| 18 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |
| 19 | Greeting him on his return from battle , she hands him over to his wife with palpable reluctance ; seeking to calm him before his confrontation with the people , she shackles him in an iron grip ; and , in the great plea with him not to sack Rome , she pinpoints the lines about him treading on his mother 's womb ‘ that brought thee to this world ’ . |
| 20 | ACTIVITY 3 5–10 mins Note down the points that strike you about this delivery system , the good as well as the bad . |
| 21 | ‘ For God 's sake , let's take another drink , or shoot the dogs , or call in Claire to dance the fandango , rather than indulge ourselves in this misery ! |
| 22 | The first thing that strikes you about this program is Top Level 's evident desire to make it as friendly as possible . |
| 23 | Looks very well designed , you know there 's nobody that makes them in this country . |
| 24 | The story ends with the teacher coming over and praising him for this reaction and Little Turtle receiving a very good report card that term . |
| 25 | And then we go beyond that , and develop it into this sort of slightly murky negative area . |
| 26 | Anyway , I really was going to take the spell off straight away , but of course you have to go hopping off and get caught and land us in this mess . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm sorry I ran and got us into this mess . |
| 28 | This is n't the way that the current system reasons , and I would certainly like to take the current system and push it in this direction of being more expert in a human sense . |
| 29 | ‘ Till my husband returns , and rescues me from this misery ! ’ |
| 30 | Charles reproved her for rushing on ahead of his story , and told her about this Sergeant lurking within like a spider waiting for a juicy fly . |