Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] in this " in BNC.
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| 1 | All brood parasites show a range of fascinating adaptations in support of their unorthodox life style , but the best-known and most fully studied is undoubtedly the European cuckoo which is the species we shall concentrate on in this chapter . |
| 2 | Few would have dared to predict in the late 1960s that duvets would ever catch on in this country , but today it would be hard to find a British household that does n't have one . |
| 3 | We ca n't carry on in this bloody silly fashion . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Do they always carry on in this fashion ? ’ |
| 5 | I would n't let the children grow up in this environment . |
| 6 | The one thing I wanted to erm bring up in this meeting , |
| 7 | If we miss each other we 'll meet back in this office in three hours . ’ |
| 8 | And again á propos Postmodernism : ‘ Nor does the argument set out in this section imply the dismissal of all recent works — including those described as ‘ Postmodern ’ — — as worthless rubbish . |
| 9 | This is certainly the most useful , easily accessible and up-to-date compilation of figures , and it is the one I shall mainly rely on in this book . |
| 10 | Perhaps I had better not go on in this way or things will get too mushy and pastoral after all . |
| 11 | One can go on in this knockabout vein for some time , because some of the illogicalities of the Velikovskian scientists are very funny indeed . |
| 12 | But I flatter myself that I can meet this danger more calmly and securely than most philologists ; my philosophical seriousness is already too deeply rooted , the true and essential problems of life and thought have been too clearly shown to me by the great mystagogue Schopenhauer … " ( 1869 ) ; " I love the Greeks more and more … [ but ] … the philologist 's existence … seems to me more and more anomalous " ( 1870 ) ; " For me , everything that is best and most beautiful is associated with the names Schopenhauer and Wagner , and I am proud and happy to share this feeling with my closest friends " ( 1870 again ) ; and from the close of the same year , " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years ; let us take it as a sorrowful lesson … I realize what Schopenhauer 's doctrine of university wisdom is all about … |
| 13 | We have already quoted part of the letter to Rohde , written in December , which gives the best testimony to Nietzsche 's state of mind : " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years … |
| 14 | ‘ They ca n't let you go down in this , ’ he said with concern . |
| 15 | The new technology element does n't exactly creep in in this business either ; personal computers , laser printers , document scanners and the like are vital elements of the system . |
| 16 | why they do n't change over in this country because we 're the odd one out and if they make cars they 've got ta make them with the steering wheel one side or the other |
| 17 | Does the Secretary of State agree that it is quite outrageous that people should stand up in this Chamber and attack the character of someone who is not here to defend himself ? |
| 18 | Instead he asked , ‘ How did a Cockney end up in this godforsaken spot ? ’ |
| 19 | FG : How did you end up in this building ? |
| 20 | How can an unchangeable God hand out in this age what he has forbidden in another age ? |
| 21 | We ca we ca n't go out in this weather , this frost . |
| 22 | oh well that was good , I 'm , I just thought though yesterday when I got up and I 've seen the weather , good grief Jimmy 's never gon na go out in this like you know |
| 23 | No one can walk about in this garden without shoes on . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ … it wo n't really be dying , because you 'll live on in this plant . ’ |
| 25 | Warning — you can not cast on in this method . |
| 26 | Why do faces loom up in this way ? |