Example sentences of "[vb -s] [v-ing] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | In places , it defies understanding to this day . |
| 2 | And they go on holiday and they 're not supposed to , you know , they neither of them of told their boyfriend they go in this club and one of them , the married one , starts dancing with this man and like he , he thinks cos she 's dancing with him she likes him but she 's just having fun . |
| 3 | I knew I 'd have to sit on my hands before I came here , but what if some sex offender starts talking about this or that ? |
| 4 | But erm er when the W Winter comes on , the wind starts whistling round this place , it er cuts into your ears a bit . |
| 5 | Ibn Battuta describes arriving at this place through a succession of now-vanished gates and courtyards , each surrounded by cohorts of trumpeters and guards . |
| 6 | Or who sees meaning in this change ? |
| 7 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 8 | He 's brilliant when he gets going like this . |
| 9 | I know he keeps going like this with it , he keeps going |
| 10 | Keeps , keeps rubbing against this , this is |