Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is not only easier to remember everything this way but it can actually be more fun too .
2 It was interested to hear what this lady said about putting on so much weight
3 There may be a circuit/county-court judge you know who would be willing to give you this experience .
4 Freud seems to be willing to put it this way , and then to want to insist again that it was an actual deed , otherwise the impact is immediately lost once we allow ourselves to think that it did not happen .
5 However , it is difficult to identify if this reflects a cohort effect : does this reflect what this age group were brought up to believe was a healthy diet or the reduced income of older people ?
6 She hoped very much to meet someone this morning , Dorothea perhaps , or Alida Thorne , or Mrs Bottingley , wife of the Rector , for they might invite her home to coffee and she could confide in them .
7 I 'm perfect to give you this message .
8 It is impossible to infect someone this way .
9 An unofficial BR source told NME that ‘ The train is usually so full that it was considered too dangerous to run it this year . ’
10 I 'm be glad to see you this time .
11 I like these put it this way I like sweets , oh look they 've changed the bow
12 Dent is so refreshingly different from the city environments of most of the visitors that it would be churlish to deny them this glimpse of a way of life that belongs to history .
13 From St Paul 's Cathedral to Putney Vale Crematorium did not seem such a short distance to the neighbours , such was their generous enthusiasm for Donald 's interment , and when they heard there were plans for a memorial service at Wimbledon Parish Church , some people said it was even better to do it this way .
14 Now it 's too late to do them this morning cos the van 's already gone .
15 Yeah again it 's not brilliant to do it this way but it will just fit on .
16 It is ironical to contemplate what this economy measure could have meant to the University had the test-tube fusion work succeeded : of the billions of dollars in royalties , Southampton — where Pons had got his start in the field and where Fleischmann had spent over twenty years — would have had claim to none .
17 I 'm sorry to send you this catalogue of woes , but I do agree with the sentiment of the Whitley paper , that the system has damaged our public image , and equally importantly it is inefficient in handling our internal and external communications .
18 It is important to know what this effect is , because if a plant subject is viewed then there will be several levels of intensity due to shading and to the angles at which leaves are presented .
19 A : ( with injured innocence ) I 'm just asking whether you 'll be able to do it this afternoon .
20 Your LIFESPAN Manager will be able to tell you this name .
21 If only Kinnock had been able to show us this side of himself when he was still Leader of the Labour Party , the election might have had a very different result .
22 ‘ She telephoned the studio to say she would n't be able to make it this weekend . ’
23 What shall we do in the weekend ? , are you gon na be able to make it this time if we do something ?
24 You were hardly in a cheerful frame of mind when I first met you this morning .
25 Jamie has a lot of skill and I 'm pleased to give him this opportunity . ’
26 To us it is clear that it was the forms of social organisation in which such evidence was carried that gave them this quality and not the intrinsic nature of the evidence itself .
27 ‘ You have been through enough to know what this world is like . ’
28 It took him slightly longer to reach her this time — four , maybe five strides .
29 So nice to see you this morning .
30 ‘ But you seemed keen to meet me this morning , so this seemed like the best place . ’
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