Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] this " in BNC.
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1 | I must speak to you about this . ’ |
2 | I think I should say to you at this point , that if you 're moving into these areas , you are moving into what I can , or , just totally contrary in fact to your policies , and directions , and er , not only that , I think we have difficulty sustaining . |
3 | ‘ Look , man , ’ he said , ‘ I 'll divide with you on this . |
4 | Having lost my own job , I found I could relate to everything in this honest and moving article . |
5 | All she could see of him from this angle was that he was a very large man , broad as well as tall — so tall that he had to bend his head over his task . |
6 | I was shaking with embarrassment that he could talk to me in this way at all , as if he knew me , as if he had the right to question me . |
7 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
8 | One gentleman I ought to mention to you in this connection — my friend Mr. Michael Barry tells me — is the writer in ‘ Property and Finance ’ , which some of you may have read . |
9 | As this substance has properties akin to those of ferments I have called it a ‘ Lysozyme ’ , and shall refer to it by this name throughout the communication . |
10 | Those were the days … what the County Ground fans would give for something like this tomorrow … |
11 | But of course these stocks are dependent on the amount of wheat sown in the preceding year ; and that , in its turn was largely influenced by the farmers ' guesses as to the price which they would get for it in this year . |
12 | Yet who would have thought I would talk to myself in this way in these notes ? he wrote . |
13 | I doubt whether this is done deliberately , but I think it 's part of everybody 's perception of science in schools that girls do biology and boys do chemistry and physics , and I suppose this is bound to have its affect on people 's choices , but I personally , and I think most of my colleagues would agree with me on this , see no reason to suppose that girls should be any less good at chemistry and physics than boys . |
14 | And Ruth felt she had n't understood till now what it meant , to be Jake 's daughter ; she 'd never guessed that one day he would turn to her like this , calling her to understand all the past and set her own strength beside his . |
15 | But the time will soon come when I trust we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies , when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh and only the spark of the spirit will remain . |
16 | Probably their teachers will speak to them in this style , though what the learners are likely to encounter when they join in conversations with native speakers is what we have referred to previously as a ‘ rapid , casual ’ style . |
17 | ‘ We were looking forward to going seven points clear for Christmas but four will do for me at this stage . ’ |
18 | Look that will happen to everybody in this room and everybody outside . |
19 | Those are just some of the memories I will take with me from this year 's Ryder Cup to join those I have of my previous three captaincies and I wish the next Ryder Cup Captain as much joy and success as I 've been lucky enough to experience . |
20 | We 've got quite a few pupils in our school who will seize on anything like this as a means of causing friction between the various groups . |
21 | His smile deepened as he added , ‘ I have been told that I am a good lover and I can think of nothing in this world that would give me greater pleasure than to teach you the plaisirs d'amour . |
22 | There is nothing that USL can do about it at this point , it says . |
23 | It was just , I wondered if , so if I get something along this line , I mean I can cope with something like this . |
24 | I sa , as I say , I met this morning with the three members from Potter Street erm we do have various alternative proposals for sa ways forward should the village back out and what I can say to you at this stage is that we have another meeting scheduled for next week , we will be meeting with the Resident 's Associations keeping them fully informed erm we will ensure that the letter goes back to Mrs who and the other Resident 's Associations who expressed concern there and that we will be taking , I hope , I hope because I 'm gon na have to say if Woolwich back out we 're going out we 're going have to move very fast and do some quite erm in-depth work . |