Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [prep] this " in BNC.

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31 Well I used to the grindstone was in the cart shed , you see , and er I used to turn the handle whilst he ground his knives down and then he 'd take them in the slaughterhouse , after he got them ground , and put them on this stone to get them smooth , to get a fine edge on the knife .
32 And I unloaded at Mr Riggs on Norwich Hill ( he used to contract for all the horses with the post-office ; and we used to take hay there ) , and I pulled the load into his yard ; took the horses out , and put them into this load what my uncle — what they sent away .
33 They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking .
34 They took me along and they put me into this dormitory .
35 I had just turned sixteen and they put me in this place that was really for dossers .
36 Ancient towns , majestic chateaux , houses clinging precariously to sheer cliffs and deep natural caves await you on this tour of remarkable south-west France .
37 The question I return to , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , is always the same : I put everything into this , everything I had by way of mind and body and heart , and this is what I have produced .
38 The Greens put everything into this election , believing that people had finally realised the seriousness and urgency of the issues they campaign on .
39 When you catch something like this , the first thing you do is give in to it .
40 So if I put something like this erm okay ?
41 No , I have n't done anything recently , but today I actually rang publishing one of the papers about Sabri 's release and spoke to a guy at the Herald and Post and someone at The Observer , said I hope you put something in this week .
42 We ca n't hurt her — humiliate her like this when she 's expecting to marry him in just a few weeks , even if it has been arranged for family reasons , and not for love .
43 You see , they 've got a card of the fella that did the thingy so , when they put him onto this other fella he says , er , yeah , his name were Mr so and so .
44 And he said , ‘ Well , we had this Tremolux amp and I put it through this compressor . ’
45 I put it to this hundred , would you spend two thousand pounds on having a tummy tuck if your tummy needing tucking ? ,
46 I ca n't agree a solution with our officers that is acceptable to the residents I represent and I put it to this council to try and get something done about it and all I get from the chairman of the committee is the officer 's comments pushed back down my throat .
47 I put it on this morning he did n't like it .
48 So we put it into this pot and we invest it in as many funds and spread the money out , so if , if one fund does n't produce very much in return , another fund will , and so we in fact , get a better spread throughout the market , than you could do as an individual .
49 Put it like this .
50 ‘ Well , put it like this , ’ replied Billy guardedly , ‘ it means they did n't eat all the deer during the war . ’
51 Jackie Jackson , a girl shot putter whose parents were Jamaican , put it like this : ‘ No matter what they say , all black kids go through a phase when they want to be white …
52 The Canadian writer Mavis Gallant put it like this : ‘ The mystery of what a couple is , exactly , is almost the only true mystery left to us , and when we have come to the end of it there will be no more need for literature — or for love , for that matter . ’
53 Put it like this , Bob , I do n't think the project quality plan is going to hinder you .
54 Cliftonville manager Frankie Parks put it like this : ‘ There was a lot of frustration on the day but the better side won .
55 Put it like this : if you ever leave me I 'll probably commit hara-kiri with a blunt penknife . ’
56 And when she opened her mouth to refuse Miguel said , ‘ Put it like this , then — I 've found an effective treatment for a joiner with cancerphobia , and it might be helpful for your career to see exactly how it works . ’
57 I said well I , he said still thought you were gon na do the bar with wood but since you put it like this if you had a te a tin of beans , would you know which one made you fart !
58 Well , put it like this if you mention that everybody stayed here it 'll get back to Jo 's mum and dad .
59 We Jus Ha a length of them , put it around this thing like that , and then when you started twisting , it would have a They 'd be feeding more That was a quite an art again , feeding more and more straw into it you know , as I backed along .
60 As Timberlake and his colleagues put it in this brief but incisive review , greens ‘ suggest that this thing called the environment is a sacred garden set aside from human activities . ’
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