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 | I can only relieve them by this . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They only have them in this colour though . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Randy , as you can see , has finally made it into this issue . |
| 24 | This girl just told me about this Polo factory outlet up near Canada … you can get a $200 knitted sweater for , like $20 — that 's outrageous ! ’ |
| 25 | The way he went away hurts me to this day . |
| 26 | I got a bit left over from when I cut it I 'll just bring it in this bit , there . |
| 27 | I just put it in this one . |
| 28 | ‘ But now he claims that as he has found work independently , I can no longer employ him in this capacity . ’ |
| 29 | In those gardens he would , no doubt , have noted new plants from America and how best to grow them in this country . |
| 30 | Our thanks to these , and to all the friends of THE FACE who have given their time and money so generously to help us through this difficult time . |