Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] this " in BNC.
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1 | and someone , I do n't know whether it 's the director , or someone actually says this play is , is the half hour , quarter of an hour , chat say , this is what the play 's about |
2 | erm , and erm , I do n't know that I ever did this , but I never heard anybody heard anybody walking the street , whistling the National Anthem . |
3 | ‘ It upsets me that I still have this ‘ enfant terrible ’ reputation . |
4 | ‘ It is not true that I only play this game for money . |
5 | That I correctly interpreted this is strongly suggested by the fact that she was not surprised by my answer which was to stop what I was doing , go out with her , and set about trying to free the cat . |
6 | That I correctly interpreted this is strongly suggested by the fact that she was not surprised by my answer — which was to stop what I was doing , go out with her , and set about trying to free the cat . |
7 | Being a mere composite from charnel houses , I fear that I alone undergo this sorrow behind the eyebrows . |
8 | I unashamedly admit that I sometimes use this song as a form of social control . |
9 | So it 's pretty obvious to me that someone else used this apartment in your absence ! ’ |
10 | ‘ These people got abusive because we would n't take their drugs so I just grabbed this bag of s*** and poured it over the floor . |
11 | Personally I like to keep things as simple as possible , so I always relate this concept to the relative major key even if I 'm dealing with a song which is in a minor key . |
12 | Helen amused herself with the pretence that she always lived this way . |
13 | Naturally she pointed out that she never sought this adulation , quite the opposite , and was frankly horrified by media attention . |
14 | The SLORC had repeatedly offered her freedom on condition that she went into exile , but Aris said that she never discussed this " because she says that it is not negotiable " . |
15 | But it seems all too likely that the 21 married women who applied to rejoin the trade and the union in 1919–20 were war widows , although we only know this for sure of three of them . |
16 | Erm , but I think that we also think this is in an in the state of philosophy nowadays . |
17 | Vanity and a nod towards Alan Meale compel that we also include this : A short-sighted scribbler called Amos ; Recorded the gaffes of the famous ; And if ever his column ; Becomes faintly solemn ; He 'll be sacked on the spot ( who would blame us ) ? |
18 | The most curious thing is that we actually esteem this sort of thinking and consider it clever instead of facile . |
19 | Erm and these are the fairly brief er Chairman I think , I am sorry for disappointing Mr because because erm I main properties but erm we are basically I think sort of more or less agreed parties that we actually want this . |
20 | If a method of collecting evidence is reliable , it means that anybody else using this method , or the same person using it at another time , would come up with the same results . |
21 | It is a robust species and can reach over two feet in length , although they seldom reach this size in the aquarium . |
22 | What organizing principles must the cells have so that they reliably give this pattern , even when the cells are rearranged and the length of the line varies ? |
23 | Horses like to be caressed , stroked , and scratched ; to the extent that they frequently provide this mutual scratching service for each other . |
24 | The main character of the memoirs is of course ultimately their author , and , although he ostensibly denied this , the memoirs constitute his apologia . |
25 | Leaving aside the question of how such a perfect and whole symbiotic relationship could have ever evolved , Darwinian-style and piecemeal , out of ‘ random fluctuations in the DNA of wasp and orchid ’ , we are left with the interesting observation that the mind structure , or instinct , of the wasp is organized in such a way that it instinctively seeks this particular shape , for the purposes of fulfilling its urge to mate . |
26 | It has to be said that he also invoked this oath against his barons when it suited him to do so , as in 1301 : it served against the laity no less than against the clergy . |
27 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
28 | To have asked him to be a godfather had crossed my mind ; but I knew that he already held this office in plurality . |
29 | THE STUDENT The student must make sure he understands what is required of him at every point — what the tone marks mean , what basic attitude the tone group reflects — and it is important that he always keeps this in mind . |
30 | I know that he recently considered this matter at a meeting with the northern TECs , but will he further consider the plight of some regions where costs are slightly higher than in , say , the south-east ? |