Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 2 | A way of understanding this difference may be to think of formal features as in some way built up in our minds from the black marks which form writing on the page , or from the speech sounds picked up by our ears , while contextual features are somewhere outside this physical realization of the language in the world , or pre-existing in the minds of the participants . |
| 3 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 4 | Her claw-prints are all over this Anya debacle , and the only physical attentions from me she 's likely to receive in future are a piece of my mind , the rough side of my tongue and my boot up her backside . ) |
| 5 | We 've just done a fortnight in the States promoting this region erm to the agents of the erm people who , you know , really book holidays , and one of the things that emerged more than ever was this comradeship , you know , we are together in this erm and what a great country you 've got over there . |
| 6 | All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched . |
| 7 | Have you been in for this Guess the Scores , have you won anything before ? |
| 8 | That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire . |
| 9 | The original author of this book commented in the House of Commons , ‘ Seldom have I seen the House or the Government in quite such a mess … as we are in over this Bill … this House does not contain a majority for this Bill . |
| 10 | With those consequences I am not in this lecture concerned . |
| 11 | I am not in this book . |
| 12 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 13 | Onomatopoeic effects are generally of this kind , as we see from the opening sentence of D. H. Lawrence 's Odour of Chrysanthemums ( see 3.4 ) : The small locomotive engine , Number 4 , came clanking , stumbling down from Selston with seven full wagons . |
| 14 | Note , if you are already in this position , please call SST Technical Support for advice . |
| 15 | I do n't agree with it because there are certainly seats there which are their responsibility which are not on this list , particularly around this memorial outside and places like that and erm quite categorically they 're theirs . |
| 16 | Obree and Williamson are not on this year 's start sheet so far and Gibson is top seed . |
| 17 | There are of course all kinds of truths that are not of this sort ; but they lie on a lower level altogether . |
| 18 | ‘ You are not of this planet ? ’ |
| 19 | But industrial conflicts are not of this kind . |
| 20 | But my other notional chapter headings are not of this same very general , limitless sort ; nor are they all on a par . |
| 21 | ‘ They are not of this world . |
| 22 | like for instance chapter ten of John , verse sixteen which talks about other sheep which are not of this fold , you , you might think that er that 's talking about , what er , the logical sense of that scripture is that the dividing line with sheep and you get different sort of folds do n't you ? |
| 23 | For human building ( art ) and the processes of germination ( nature ) are not in this vision opposed , as alternatives we must choose between . |
| 24 | It was argued above that it is unacceptable to claim that the mandatory penalty for murder supplies the raison d'être for the qualified defence of provocation : the label ‘ murder ’ should be reserved for the most heinous of killings , and there is a widely held belief that provoked killings are not in this group . |
| 25 | Christians however are not in this situation . |
| 26 | They are not in this vacuum-like context . |
| 27 | A few are not in this sense well-formed , although some grammatical structure is normally discernible . |
| 28 | I think ( actor 's voice ) people who are not in this great business of ours think the idea of electronic messages flying around is really odd and they may get freaked if some of what is said is a bit inflammatory- maybe more so than if they saw it printed . |
| 29 | We are not in this for a fast buck . |
| 30 | You are not from this world , he says , and you came here in a metal ship which flew through the air . |