Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 2 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 3 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 4 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 5 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 6 | And we went up there , oh dear , driving up there you 're going up on this little tiny when you 've got a big car . |
| 7 | Come on we 're going back to this shove it in water business again . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're getting out of this nightmare . ’ |
| 9 | Considering the disruptions Forest have had to er undergo here they 're getting back into this game impressively at the moment . |
| 10 | Well there 's a couple of things I will , I 'll , I 'll add then before we 're shutting up about this . |
| 11 | They had clearly been leading up to this all week . |
| 12 | ‘ Everyone , including the British Government , has been waking up to this horrific plight too late . |
| 13 | He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him . |
| 14 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
| 15 | We 've been going on like this for months . |
| 16 | so there was silence until we got to the tube station and he said , how long have you been going out with this man ? |
| 17 | ‘ Things are going on at this school , ’ went on Dr Ali , in a whisper , ‘ of which it is difficult for a good Muslim to approve . ’ |
| 18 | It 's us and people out there , there is still people out there sighing and crying and groaning under the detestable things that are going on in this world , I 've no doubt you 've met many , but , when they say I do n't know what the world 's coming to , well if you know what 's in your magazines and then your literature and the reasoning book , all these lovely provisions , because you 've devoured it , you 've eaten it like that scroll that John was given , it was sweet to him was n't it ? |
| 19 | Medical supplies are going in from this country not only to help Moscow and St. Petersburg , but to go as far as Ekaterinburg , Tymen , Novokuznetsk , the Kiev oblast , the Donetsk oblast , and further afield . |
| 20 | ‘ It is not for us because we are going out of this business . |
| 21 | They more or less called him a fool when he tried to change back into whatever it was our current whatever it was and if that 's the case erm Hungar Hungarians are holding on to this two thousand pound , it 's surety is n't it ? |
| 22 | Ah right so the the direction the clouds are moving in against this frosted glass screen |
| 23 | Poor people of the region , particularly women , are speaking out against this injustice and organising basic health care in their communities . |
| 24 | In fact , women have been speaking out on this issue for some time — among them Sue Cavanagh , co-author of a report on women 's loos published by the Women 's Design Service . |
| 25 | ‘ The selectors are taking a great interest in Irish golf simply because the better players are coming out of this island . |
| 26 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 27 | I bought a copy in of last weeks Daily Telegraph because interestingly enough , the press seems to be latching on to this er not playing by the rules . |
| 28 | Well I 'm hanging down like this to increase the circulation to my head |
| 29 | Then he 'll be walking in with this quiz an |
| 30 | Now Gloucester rugby fans wo n't be looking back on this season for any misty eyed memories … |