Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what most impresses you about this phenomenal piece of theatre is less its class affiliations than its national attributes : a drama of mutinous impulses crushed by an authoritarian social system is given consummate rendering by a cast who very triumphantly unite energy and discipline . |
| 2 | I am writing hurriedly to you but I have thought it right to apprize you of this … |
| 3 | The Viennese modernists , Klimt , von Hofmannsthal , Hoffmann , Moser , had only joined them in this acceptance . |
| 4 | How could he hold her so tenderly one moment , only to treat her like this the next ? |
| 5 | No doubt my readers will have bigger and better examples of the persistence of facies which so fascinates me in this chapter , but I write as far as possible from my own experience . |
| 6 | These are the new rate books , we 've literally only had them through this week . |
| 7 | ‘ So tell me about this Rose Bowl of yours , ’ he said , leaning back and signalling the waiter for another bottle of wine . |
| 8 | ‘ So tell me about this case of yours . ’ |
| 9 | Only get her off this estate now , you understand ? |
| 10 | Peter not only hears it on this occasion but several times in the future , as the book of Acts shows . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd better take me to this Wyrmberg of yours , had n't you ? ’ |
| 12 | A couple of years of university so familiarises us with this idea that literature dissolves entirely into the drudgery of reading and writing crit . |
| 13 | Looking down at the pathetic little body lying so still on the table , she said , ‘ I 'd better leave him like this for Dawn to see . |
| 14 | Like , all their films came , like Alex 's film of er Spain empties the camera basically puts it in this pile they keep in a drawer somewhere of films , okay ? |
| 15 | Cooks and lawyers need to use words in their own special ways , and so do I in this book . |
| 16 | Certainly so far as we are concerned we would completely recognise your position and we are in fact , since your position is shared by several other experts in their respective fields who have been good enough to assist us in this venture , doing our very best to see that the names of those who are taking part in the policy study groups do not become public property . |
| 17 | And it shot it went down shot it through this barrel and inside was hydrogen gas and as it went through |
| 18 | I can only relieve them by this . ’ |
| 19 | I think I 'd have to actually , should have perhaps warned you about this , but er , er , in point of fact , not too many people got this , I think there was one of two that got this wrong . |
| 20 | Did he deliberately draw himself to your attention merely to involve you in this new Ordo — or because he hopes you might lance the boil of a conspiracy without him needing to show his own hand ? |
| 21 | Another popular cheat is to quote last year 's rates , only raising them to this year 's the day after the form is posted to us . |
| 22 | They only have them in this colour though . |
| 23 | I could not tell her — I could not hurt her in this way . |
| 24 | Because the characters and the dialogue of this offstage life were created by the original cast , we have not included it in this script . |
| 25 | Erm we feel rather badly about not returning it to this person who made it for us |
| 26 | It 's important that we identify what desires and needs we could have in common with one another when using this approach ; if we do n't know the people concerned very well , or have not considered them in this way , we need to use the participative approach described above . |
| 27 | I decided not to inform him of this . |
| 28 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 29 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 30 | ‘ The Police generally support us on this , but I have to say the problem does not seem quite as serious now as it used to be , and they did not mind us frequently playing Saturday games last season . ’ |