Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [conj] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | It upsets me that this happens . |
| 2 | One version has it that this Byzantine princess caused a collection of manuscripts to be brought to Moscow that was so splendid as to leave sixteenth-century eyewitnesses dumbfounded . |
| 3 | ‘ Mrs Porter uses it or this small room off it , just here , as a sitting-room occasionally , but she does n't live in , so you would virtually have the run of this part of the house . ’ |
| 4 | A correspondent in Nottingham assures me that this year every police vehicle and every ambulance in the county carries on both sides a large photograph of the Chief Constable , Mr C. McLachlan , enjoining temperance . |
| 5 | Putting a face to your telephone voice or your press releases personalizes you and this helps enormously in the reception your public relations efforts may be given . |
| 6 | Mr Smith assures us that this ‘ strength ’ is because the Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marxism . |
| 7 | What convinces me that this child is deluded is the conflicting reports of the so-called apparition . |
| 8 | The Russian Embassy tells me that this is the first time their head of state has visited London and not stayed at the embassy . |
| 9 | What tells me that this is right ? |
| 10 | She tells me that this has recently become quite itchy , and when there appear to be one or two areas that have er become discoloured darker than , than the main part of the mole . |
| 11 | And that should inform your thinking when somebody rings you up and says , ‘ My editor tells me that this happened . |
| 12 | THE VEGAS tat , the bandanas , the ‘ maturity ’ of much of the audience , all this tells you that this is not your standard T-shirt rock gig . |
| 13 | But nothing you can point to in your present situation tells you that this situation is not one in which you are mistaken . |
| 14 | Not , the constructivist argues , by the enrichment of perceptual input ( in any case the evidence tells us that this is already rich ) : only through action itself . |
| 15 | This was amended to $100bn in a 1987 revision of the law , and now the Congressional Budget Office , which keeps track of such things , tells us that this too will be overshot , resulting in a deficit estimated at $117.8bn . |
| 16 | The rest of the poem is concerned with the social causes of human misery : the Female Vagrant tells us that This is dismissed by many critics as ‘ tainted with Godwinism ’ , but I can not myself see that lines like these are ever likely to become out of date . |
| 17 | The characteristic ‘ oily ’ smell immediately tells us that this is a cone of Shetland pure wool . |
| 18 | Tacitus tells us that this incursion was into the territory of Rome 's allies , and this could place it in the lower Severn , where Caratacus could have linked up with the other group of dissidents in the south-west still smarting from the operations of Vespasian , who with his sea-borne mobility swept right along the south coast , taking the Britons by surprise . |
| 19 | What then tells us that this new case is not another such ? |
| 20 | Common sense tells us that this requires some form of trading activity , and although this will cover such things as the purchase of raw materials , capital equipment , etc. , it should be noted that if such actions were merely preparatory to the later formation of a company then these can not be considered as the actions of a partnership ‘ carrying on a business ’ . |
| 21 | Our prehistory tells us that this is not a dream but a real possibility . |
| 22 | St. John tells us that this is one of his main functions . |
| 23 | Academic research tells us that this rarely happens perfectly and so we need to examine the effects of the policy in practice . |
| 24 | Simple arithmetic quickly tells us that this is equivalent to an average data transfer of 150,000 bytes per second . |
| 25 | Officials refused to indicate the exact origin of the material but did say that " experience tells us that this kind of material comes from Eastern Europe " . |
| 26 | Section er , I was very surprised indeed that er Hilary asking for a review of the service because in fact all one 's experience and I am sure as well tells us that this is a success story , it is something that petition after petition that we 've asking to keep it that way , shows that it is one of the services that the County provides which is very much appreciated by the recipients and we ca n't say that in all County Councils ' services but you can say it about er the section seventeen and I think you ought to acknowledge that Chairman . |
| 27 | But it strikes me that this is really the view of people who do n't have them . |
| 28 | And it it strikes me that this is er a starting point . |
| 29 | Yes well it strikes me that this case involves some very narrow issues really it 's generated an awful lot of paper . |
| 30 | Nothing in Swannell 's direction of his play persuades you that this would not have been a better home for Marrakech . |