Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] this [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rarely got beyond this point in my sales patter before expressions of incredulity replaced polite interest . |
| 2 | For example , Brunsdon notes that ‘ Hollywood , as the world-dominant cinema , exports ideals of White femininity worldwide ’ , yet feminist critics have rarely looked at this aspect of the Hollywood dream-machine in their copious critiques of it . |
| 3 | Exultation comes and goes , but here again for the while I suppose it has returned to me in preparation for that step back into the radiant arc of omnipotence which is only given on this earth to the narrator in or of a novel . |
| 4 | Seven Types of Ambiguity , on the other hand , is entirely occupied with this sort of explanation , through the ‘ verbal analysis ’ of ambiguity in poetry , ambiguity being defined ( in the second edition ) as ‘ any verbal nuance , however slight , which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language ’ ( Empson 1965 : 1 ) . |
| 5 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 6 | ‘ So far we have identified almost 50 separate groups who work closely enough together to benefit from this type of training , ’ said E.S . |
| 7 | Hamburg 's reputation as a ‘ sin city ’ is entirely owed to this street in the St Pauli area , and rest assured its reputation is fully deserved . |
| 8 | We are sworn to protect the Führer and yet are constantly threatened by this conspiracy of generals . ’ |
| 9 | Both teams were somewhat weakened for this visit of Lansdowne to Eaton Park but Ballymena just about deserved their narrow 3–0 win , the only score of the game , a penalty by Derek McAleese coming midway through the second half . |
| 10 | The judge was only saved from this punishment by the intervention of St Praeiectus , whom he had honoured in his lifetime . |
| 11 | The value placed on this formal approach is reminiscent of American New Criticism , and also of Russian Formalism and the work of Roman Jakobson — all of whom Genette approvingly cites in this essay on structuralism and literary criticism . |
| 12 | Much buying in this type of trade is centralised , and in many cases the potential buyer visits the seller ( unlike industrial selling when the seller normally visits the buyer ) . |
| 13 | When you consider that the event is only played on this side of the Atlantic once every four years I do n't think that the decision-makers at the BBC did the event justice , particularly with all the hype which went before it . |
| 14 | Higher production , higher oil prices and increased interest income all contributed to this improvement in performance . |
| 15 | No , various European countries started erm thinking about the same idea at the same time , and there are some interesting questions here about why everybody suddenly lit upon this piece of legislation . |
| 16 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 17 | She was naturally gratified by this change of front , and drew the appropriate moral the possession of big breasts , like the possession of a tendency to acquire good examination results , implies power . |
| 18 | However , it is only open to those who already hold the overpriced asset and so relies on this group of investors trading sufficient assets to move the relative prices of the shares in the index and index futures back into line . |
| 19 | Hence some policewomen deliberately seek out desk jobs — secretaries with uniforms , as someone described them — or jobs as drivers , in juvenile liaison , or in units which deal with sex crimes , because they see themselves as better suited to this type of work . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps they are just better suited to this sort of race and these headwinds , ’ added the man with a house 50 yards from the Thames at Putney . |
| 21 | Electronic project construction is probably less troubled by this type of thing than many others , perhaps due to the fact that it is an indoor pursuit which is not dependent on the weather . |
| 22 | As indicated at the beginning of this article sales must not only be paid for by the buyer but the funds must be received quickly by the exporter and the banks are very much involved at this stage through : — |
| 23 | Salisbury was much struck at this meeting by Irwin 's confidence in the future . |
| 24 | And it appears from what the county council has said that they are they 're not necessarily opposed to this sort of development that we 're we 're looking at here but that er the case would have to be proven as an exception to normal planning policy . |
| 25 | And we should perhaps add to this list of discourses the critical one which organises an anecdote , which may not have taken place at all , to re-iterate a point about Shakespeare and power . |
| 26 | She and her brothers had always found the idea of ancestral spirits appearing during the Cia ceremony an awesome prospect , but her sense of unease had been greatly heightened on this occasion by the fear of unknown punishments that seemed certain to follow the incident involving her baby gibbon at the governor 's palace . |
| 27 | Still , I had n't thought I was a big enough fish for this sort of attention . ’ |
| 28 | Scarlet the heroine has a therapist , for example , but we never actually meet the therapist and , as a result , only engage with this segment of her experience at second hand . |
| 29 | He apparently continued in this office until 1655 , when , with essentially unchanged duties , he was appointed one of the two chamberlains of the Exchequer and keeper of its records . |
| 30 | Already , in Example 105 , several zones ( especially those based on semitone clusters ) were obviously composed through this method of working with non-tonal note combinations . |