Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I subsequently wrote to you thanking you for this most generous offer and explaining that we wanted to use them as prizes in a raffle but were unable to proceed at that time . |
| 2 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 3 | The Service Consultancy initiative is a major benefit to clients in this area and I have already received many letters from customers , advised by the circular in their invoicing , thanking us for this additional feature . |
| 4 | At the end of this term , the Ayton School choir goes to Coventry Cathedral and Mr Essex , who will sing there with them , is currently rehearsing them for this occasion . |
| 5 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 6 | I goes er , oh I 'm recording it for this thing , she goes oh yeah my beard , ha , I was going I am , ha , but she did n't believe me , can I have some sauce please ? |
| 7 | I goes er oh , I 'm recording it for this thing and she goes , oh yeah my big head ! |
| 8 | ‘ It 's absolutely pointless blaming anyone for this episode , there is human error in everything . |
| 9 | We 're doing it for this little orphanage and it 's all terrible exciting . |
| 10 | And then next week I must order some more coal for but erm , I 've got ta go outside here so no good doing it for this week is it ? |
| 11 | The story ends with the teacher coming over and praising him for this reaction and Little Turtle receiving a very good report card that term . |
| 12 | Erm I 'm not , well I was boiling it for this |
| 13 | Since then the Edinburgh Zoo has seen upwards of 50 000 people using it for this purpose in a year . |
| 14 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 15 | I have been preparing myself for this for the whole of my life , he wrote . |
| 16 | ‘ Can we tek it then that thoo 'll be leaving us for this land of milk and honey ? ’ |
| 17 | How could she feel so physically drawn to him , when intellectually she was detesting him for this arrogant charade ? |