Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stands down this summer looking tired and weary after 20 years in office running a metropolis of ten million people which has a world-wide reputation for its crime , its gangs , its murders , its drugs , its violence , its riots , its burning streets . |
| 2 | And he finishes off this poem with a description of what he 's now writing . |
| 3 | Brutus starts off this passage with a rhetorical question , and then goes on to explain why he killed Caesar , including all Caesar 's good aspects . |
| 4 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 5 | He then looks up this time in a reference book to find out which lighthouse flashes in this way . |
| 6 | Right so if someone holds up this piece and you hold up this piece to your mum and you say what sort of fraction is this ? |
| 7 | Lochsong was a snip at the weights in last year 's Tote-Portland Handicap but no horse stands out this time . |
| 8 | Cos when he wakes up this morning bright as a lark . |
| 9 | Gandhi 's emphasis on Sarvodaya , the welfare of ill , as both an expression of Truth and a means of realizing Truth bears out this point . |
| 10 | The following list of skills and abilities taken from Educational Objectives for the Study of History written in 1971 by Jeanette Coltham and John Fines bears out this point . |
| 11 | After a few quick puffs the man turns and stubs out this cigarette too , three-quarters wasted . |
| 12 | Going from the ridiculously sublime to the sublimely ridiculous , another visionary — this time very much of our present day and very well known indeed — shows up this month on Greene St. He is , of course , Saul Steinberg , Horace of the high-heeled , poet of the pot-holed urban scene , cicerone to the foibles of the national consciousness . |
| 13 | In the resulting breed , the body is covered with a short , soft down in place of the usual fur and as the cat grows up this down persists only on the extremities . |
| 14 | Cramping marks out this remedy . |
| 15 | Well you know where the , th there 's an old road goes up this way . |
| 16 | Finn 's father turns up this time , takes him away , locks him up and beats him . |
| 17 | She never could have done in Europe what she did in New York ; I can not think of an artist who points up this issue more clearly and I can not understand why she of all people was left out of the show . |
| 18 | The arrangement evolving at a number of the resource management pilot sites , in which a doctor acting as clinical director takes on this role with assistance from a nurse manager and a business manager , indicates the likely direction of change . |
| 19 | often , it takes months of phone calls before you have completed your ‘ hit list ’ , and I would suggest that whoever takes on this job should have a very carefree and optimistic attitude . |
| 20 | He takes over this month from Hugh Collum , finance director of SmithKline Beecham , who has held the post for two years . |
| 21 | And Scott the rapier-slim rapper backs up this message by practising what he preaches . |
| 22 | Recent research in tumour promotion backs up this objection . |
| 23 | Well , the first book in which Freud explicitly takes up this question in the opening pages , is his book of nineteen twenty seven , er The Future of an Illusion , and his begins , by posing the Hobbesian question , although it does n't mention Hobbes , but , it 's the fundamental point he makes , that civilization goes against the grain of human nature , and the question he asks himself is , how does er , order , morality . |
| 24 | Isaiah 61 : takes up this theme , and the prophet cries : |
| 25 | He does not , however , explain why the causal influence of the forces of production is always , and necessarily , greater than that of individuals , and only takes up this point in a second argument , in which he shifts from the discussion of character traits to consider the role played by individuals of extraordinary talent . |
| 26 | The section on measurement ( p.67 ) where the difficulties with decimal place value are very apparent , takes up this point further . |
| 27 | As the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology points out this week ( p 634 ) , the amount of money spent by government on R&D in industry is ‘ pitifully low ’ . |
| 28 | There is an amusing passage from a skit by Max Beerbohm , the caricaturist and wit who flourished in the decadent " nineties and the early years of this century , which neatly points out this danger . |
| 29 | ‘ Next moment , he pulls out this hammer and puts it through the glass . ’ |
| 30 | Now with diabetes there 's two types , too much sugar and too little sugar now diabetes erm , Irene said to you , erm is controlled by the insulin in the pancreas in the stomach , it throws out this insulin the liver throws out the sugar and I 'm not going into actual detail , but if there is too little insulin then it is allowing the liver to send out too much glucose , so if , if the person has got this erm pancreas that is n't churning out insulin or too little then your person will have sugar diabetes . |