Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd better tell this sodding policeman where the main electric switch is . |
| 2 | ‘ I think I 'd better give this a bit of a read . |
| 3 | I 've had two or three of them buggers but I think I 'd better go this time as I ca n't get no more . |
| 4 | Now , when asked if I would introduce this subject , she said , I think I 'd better mention this for the sake of the truth , |
| 5 | I 'd better lock this up had n't I ? |
| 6 | blob , blob , I think I 'd better do this one Tim , I have n't had a go yet |
| 7 | ‘ Before we go I 'd better check this guy for a piece — or a tape recorder . ‘ |
| 8 | I do n't know where , I thought I left my case here , I do n't know what I 've done with my case that 's all , it 's probably downstairs oh oh I do n't know , mm still not able to find it I think I 'd better put these plants out mm that 's right , oh , mm that 's not there right , I 'd better switch this , the tape off cos there 's not much , be much conversation now for a while |
| 9 | So if we 're going to do er I 'd better unclip this had n't I ? |
| 10 | Oh oh right I 'd better turn this thing off now erm |
| 11 | Erm I du n no this is somebody else 's paper so This is before I had a I worked it out as I I th I thought it 'd work out a three- four-five triangle . |
| 12 | However , I do not regard this problem as insuperable . |
| 13 | ‘ The reason I have called you both here is to remind you that you are now second-year witches , and I do not expect this ridiculous feud between you two girls to continue . |
| 14 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |
| 15 | Who said ‘ I do not want this to look too much like a cynical photocall ’ ? |
| 16 | I do not make this point to suggest that all these theories are wrong in every detail , but to underline the importance of looking behind the apparently innocent measures on which so much of the global-system literature is based . |
| 17 | I do not think this difficulty is insuperable , particularly if one accepts that a single gene mutation could have a large effect in fitting an organism to a new environment . |
| 18 | Without the frequent and often detailed accounts in the Henley Standard — especially in the early , interesting years — I do not think this book could have been produced . |
| 19 | I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical . |
| 20 | I do not think this reversal did much to uphold the seriousness or credibility of the sporting authorities ; it did , however , solve certain in-house problems and — until Monza — lower the temperature in the great debate about Ferrari ‘ influence ’ . |
| 21 | The tribunal chairman said : ‘ Her privacy was invaded , but she does model and I do not think this was a very high level of injured feelings . |
| 22 | I do not think this grouping or group let is yet a class either in itself or for itself and it may never become one . |
| 23 | But as I have said earlier , I do not think this necessarily precludes a difference in the procedures which are appropriate on the one hand where it is necessary to explain to the driver his right to claim a replacement specimen taken under section 7(4) and what the exercise of that right involves and , on the other hand , where the driver is obliged , subject to any rights of objection , to provide the specimen the constable requires . |
| 24 | I do not think this presentation advances the arguments . |
| 25 | Mr Sproat was not , he insisted , against the scheme from any reasons of philistinism , ‘ but I do not think this is the best way to encourage authors . |
| 26 | I do not think this association would have put Flaubert off . |
| 27 | After what has happened I do not think this girl will be able easily to adjust to a normal teenage existence for some time and I think any order forbidding her to see this man again would not only be unrealistic , but would place an intolerable burden on a young girl who , it seems to me , has had quite enough strain already . |
| 28 | I do not do this but some pe everyone 's entitled to throw their money away if they like . |
| 29 | I do not intend this list to be exhaustive . |
| 30 | However I do not favour this view as to my mind the force in this poem which awakens is one indifferent to the survival of the life it awoke . |