Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father , a policeman , had taught me how to do this years before . |
| 2 | I do n't think I quite understand this Allan . |
| 3 | And I think you 'll agree , it is a difficult I mean I always stress this point about attitude , that a lot of problems that we get in our advice centres have been made worse because the customer has caused er you know argument or a scene |
| 4 | I have n't spoken to erm , I mean I only thought this coming along in the street , whether there 's anybody sort of notable , I mean is it , is , is , is there any value in actually having a figurehead type chairman you know , sort of celebrity type |
| 5 | Day 14 ) Not only has Dave been on a raft the last week but today — honest Dave , I 've waited two months for that 50 bucks you promised me not to reveal this , but it has not arrived — he got off the raft and walked around Upset . |
| 6 | Well do you know I never knew this I was recently hit by a car and , although not seriously hurt , I did go to casualty to have some cuts cleaned and an X-ray taken to check I had n't broken my ankle . |
| 7 | ‘ Has she ever done this before ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ My daughters said I should come here to help clear this thing up , to find who really did this because unless it is cleared up then history will say that we were sent to our deaths by Britain , and that means the British people and the British army and they do n't deserve that because it is out of character . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I want you ter take this letter ter your sister Mary . |
| 10 | Erm so think about if you 've got a non-working partner or somebody on a low income to spread the money er so that you , has anybody already done this er you know prior to retirement ? |
| 11 | D' ya know he never does this ! |
| 12 | Has he ever suggested this before ? ’ |
| 13 | Although my wrist is not quite right , I could not of course have let anyone else write this particular letter … . |
| 14 | Anselm himself never quoted this analogy , but he went so far as to warn the pope that if he gave an adverse judgement in the dispute between Canterbury and York ‘ I would on no account remain in England ; for I neither ought to , nor can allow the primacy of our church to be destroyed while I am alive . ’ |
| 15 | In a way this new fight against censorship is an opportunity not simply to defend and ensure intellectual freedom but to affirm that a profession does exist which essentially safeguards this freedom . |
| 16 | It was my dreaming son who told me how to do this . |
| 17 | Do , let me just drink this and I 'll do you . |
| 18 | Let me just finish this off . |
| 19 | Okay , let me just finish this section then we 'll take er we 'll er we 'll take a break to er take a break for the rest of the day actually yes . |
| 20 | let me just finish this game |
| 21 | ‘ Hold still now , let me just fix this … there now . ’ |
| 22 | Let me just do this from er Road police station . |
| 23 | Er I will I will hand over but let me just say this that my instinct is that it a policy expressed in the way you 've you 've suggested is just superfluous because all you 're doing is describing in in a po in upper case letters , the situation as it is and that that my answer is that it would that there would be no need for such a it would be gratuitously ap it 's an unnecessary statement . |
| 24 | Hang on , let me just do this game on card |
| 25 | Let me just put this on pause for a bit . |
| 26 | And let me now posit this : ‘ dignity ’ has to do crucially with a butler 's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits . |
| 27 | Let there be no way out of it ; let me really make this promise . |
| 28 | Everything 's hunky-dory and I never hope I ever knock this , I do n't know whether Susan wants to hear this but since we started doing |
| 29 | just before we show you how to do this , check some final details . |
| 30 | It can help if you gently stroke that side of his face as he eats : the physiotherapist will show you how to do this correctly . |