Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 2 | The reason we built it on this particular spot is this is the ash flurry from the boilers from the bottom there of the er power station and er it 's contents of slurry dried out , dried out and graded , well once nice and flat like this it gives the bird an ideal opportunity to at high tide and they can see around , there 's no vegetation , it 's very bad ground , and er , that is load of ducks , a good numbers of er oystercatchers , they do n't sometimes , which is really nice and so easy to count them now cos when the tide is out and you 've got the , the mud flats of course they 're spread out , now they 're nicely condensed down here , so it 's great , great little position for us you know , that 's all courtesy of the bottom of the boiler , you know , you know , give us this nice |
| 3 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 4 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 5 | I found it under this |
| 6 | Corbett vaguely recalled the building as a pleasant two-storeyed affair : the fire must have caught the sun-dried timbers and turned it into this blackened mess . |
| 7 | Jacopone da Todi , the follower of Francis , expressed it in this way : |
| 8 | Paul expressed it in this way : ‘ I live ; yet not I , but Christ lives in me . ’ |
| 9 | In 1938 Leo Amery expressed it in this way : ‘ when we are faced with the competition of a people who lay stress on the healthy development of their young manhood and womanhood , how can we afford a situation in which something like twenty-five per cent of the children of our country are growing up under-nourished and likely to belong to the C3 rather than the A1 type when they grow up . |
| 10 | The Mitchells were granted permission to burn charcoal from coppiced timber at Hangman 's Wood if they returned it to this state of management . |
| 11 | He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! ' |
| 12 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm surprised you heard it above this wind . ’ |
| 14 | We broke it off this afternoon . ’ |
| 15 | But now we want them all shared out so instead of saying one remainder two we writ it like this now . |
| 16 | Whichever way her life was goin' she would never have it soft again , not as she saw it at this present moment . |
| 17 | A record shows , 'The inhabitants of the place said we never saw it in this fashion before ; we were left to wander and none cared for our souls ; but now a brighter day has dawned for us . ’ |
| 18 | Kahnweiler throughout his life was to maintain that the painting was unfinished , and on occasion was even to assert that Picasso himself saw it in this way . |
| 19 | well I 've never got any , I saw it in this shop |
| 20 | he brought it in this morning |
| 21 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |
| 22 | I took it to this kid at |
| 23 | So of course inevitably what happened is we got the house lot in just , took it to this place in Leeds , got finished with that load and back for four which is what the estimate had covered us for , and then we had to start all over again with what was in the garage . |
| 24 | Nevertheless I always accepted with gratitude the milk which the shepherd offered me , as the expression of his love , but since , being pure spirit , I do not need the milk , I shared it with this little fox , who is very fond of milk . " |
| 25 | No , the council 's took it over , they sold it to this bloke . |
| 26 | and if you got it through this gold card there was another five percent off so or something like that off . |
| 27 | ‘ I learned it off this actor I was in jail with once . |
| 28 | Fred cheated his clients , of course ; but he never did it at this stage of a transaction . |
| 29 | Cos erm they gave it to this woman and the woman gave it to me . |
| 30 | Yes , chair , actually gave it to this headed copy of it to consolidate erm with regard to contacting Leicester and Leeds Councils that have also sort of taken action against Nestlé , that 's still being done . |