Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] this " in BNC.
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1 | It was more than a shock I put my head in my in my hand and I remember kneeling right at this spot and just crying my heart out . |
2 | Though literary festivals could be immensely enjoyable , especially if they took you to some pleasant distant city , like Toronto or Adelaide , there was something absurd about writers gathering together in this way . |
3 | ‘ Active constitution ’ involves a bringing together of this qualitative ensemble in such a way as to strengthen , modify or weaken the initial felt response . |
4 | The fact of the matter is that it is not , as I have explained to the right hon. Gentleman on many occasions , happening only in this country . |
5 | One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains . |
6 | And er you you you could hear them patting this butter outside a shop you know , it was a lovely sound on marble slabs and they were patting away at this butter . |
7 | Some people may find it too exciting ; certainly , there is something to be said for being on the side of the road away from the steep drops into the valley , which means driving eastwards by this route and not westwards , or into Bigorre not out of it . |
8 | ‘ Meg 's no good — she 's away — and you wo n't want to be driving far at this time of night … ’ |
9 | Occurring spontaneously with this was the creation of what man , millions of years later is able to look back on and recognise as myriads of units of ‘ goodness ’ being produced from those ‘ good ’ events which were controlling evolution , and which he can now understand as being the origins of his well-being . |
10 | For any high flyers considering keeping well above this area , a quick reference to EUR 2 shows an air to air refuelling area of 2600 square miles starting abeam Bristol and Bournemouth and ending just before Land 's End , restricting the air from FL 80 to 180 . |
11 | It 's all happening here in this graphically impressive boxing arcade simulation . |
12 | It is trading ahead of this time last year , when sales were hit by the Gulf war , but exports are slowing . |
13 | The results presented clearly demonstrate that the incorporation of d 3C A has a destabilising effect on oligonucleotide duplexes and the pH dependence of the T m values is consistent with protonation of 3-deazaadenine ( most probably at N-1 ) contributing significantly to this effect . |
14 | At that moment her Arabic was even poorer than mine , for she was new to the household , but on my next visit she would be rattling away in this throaty language and I would be struggling as usual . |
15 | I have no way of writing fluently about this past . |
16 | The other issues deserve their own extensive studies though they are referred to in passing elsewhere in this book . ) |
17 | But last year American Airlines and United started nibbling away at this business when they replaced bankrupt Pan Am and TWA on many of the services between America and London . |
18 | The United Kingdom observatories at Lerwick , Eskdalemuir and Hartland are now operating close to this ideal as a result of continued developments in instrumentation , communications and data-processing software . |
19 | We shall be looking further at this vexed question of Christian initiation and the relation of the Holy Spirit to baptism in a later chapter . |
20 | May be sinking rapidly into this unreactive state ; suffocating on white mucus ; lacks the power to clear it but would be better ( > ) if they could . |
21 | It 's er erm a little bit more straightforward a we 're looking straight onto this wall , looking straight onto the steps , and we 're looking straight onto the door , so everything is looking , sort of erm full-faced as it were and I think that makes for a less interesting composition than the previous one . |
22 | Oh the idea of saving now for this year 's Christmas present , there 's one small snag , it will cost around £60,000 . |
23 | you see because living here like this and er I mean , I mean only yesterday I heard of an people burst in the door and this old lady on the head and where 's your money and that sort of thing , you know , so it it 's really terrible . |
24 | Villagers are proud and fortunate to be living here in this peaceful little village , surrounded by beautiful countryside . |
25 | The thought of living here in this gentle setting appealed to her . |
26 | Others within the PLO advocated the need to rely primarily on Arab support , looking particularly in this regard to Iraq . |
27 | Which is why we 're meeting here at this very spot . |
28 | So I was surprised when one morning , while filling the kettle at the tap in the yard , I noticed some of our neighbours looking across at this cottage where a painter was taking the ‘ To Let ’ sign out of the window . |
29 | Bruno 's been training hard for this fight in Leicester . |
30 | The statement emphasized that the IDA and Raybestos Manhattan were operating jointly in this matter . |