Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] in this " in BNC.
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| 1 | All you have to do is lower me down in this bucket to just above the sea . |
| 2 | ‘ I told the police I would take them off in this country , but that I could n't give confirmation I would n't use them abroad . ’ |
| 3 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 4 | Your unusual ability for mental imaging marks you out in this context . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm hardly likely to throw you out in this weather . ’ |
| 6 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
| 7 | Charles Frederick was the odd one out in this respect — his feet were far too itchy to allow him to settle down into any sort of domesticity , and he would prove the fact in a dramatic enough way by sailing off around the world as soon as the opportunity presented itself . |
| 8 | For all that we have said about the role of the country districts round — which applies as much to northern as to Italian cities — and the close relation , however ambivalent , of religious aspirations and the development of towns , it is in the end their place in the accumulation of wealth which marks them out in this age : they are at once the symbols and the centres of mammon ; in them gathered the moneyers who struck coin and the merchants who exchanged and accumulated it . |
| 9 | I would be so grateful if any of your readers could please help me out in this matter . |
| 10 | He seemed surprised as if it had not occurred to him that literature might let him down in this way . |
| 11 | She could see , as plain as the nose on her face , that here was a man of the self-centred , philandering , dangerous variety , the kind of man no girl in her right mind would risk getting involved with … so how come her hormones were letting her down in this maddening way ? |
| 12 | ‘ We ca n't throw him out in this kind of weather . ’ |
| 13 | The only thing that lets it down in this area is a slightly off-centre truss rod cover . |
| 14 | next to the fire place , er a lot of people have put it up in this corner and , but |
| 15 | er and and and nice to know that we want to establish contact and you may be aware that we 've had this plan , and , and what we want it to achieve is so and so , and we 'd like to set it up in this way . |
| 16 | You know he borrowed the hairbrush from me , he brought it back in this |
| 17 | that he 'd got a form and he was fetching it back in this afternoon and they was handing it over this afternoon . |
| 18 | The government would save so much money in the long run if they built us all homes instead of putting us up in this dump ; it 's ridiculous . ’ |