Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is a robust species and can reach over two feet in length , although they seldom reach this size in the aquarium . |
| 5 | The main character of the memoirs is of course ultimately their author , and , although he ostensibly denied this , the memoirs constitute his apologia . |
| 6 | If I sometimes recognized this , I blamed my Aunt Lilian who had brought me up to give too much importance to careers and causes and things of the mind , simply because she had never known , herself , any of the pleasures of the body , and had , as a result , made me feel guilty now . |
| 7 | ‘ What we have to do , ’ said Samuel , taking advantage of her exit from the ring , ‘ and I take it no one objects if I now chair this committee , ’ he added off-handedly , ‘ is to decide whether the Week of the Lion should continue or be cancelled . ’ |
| 8 | It was n't as if she even liked this man enough to care a damn for his opinion of her ! |
| 9 | and erm and so it appears , if you just take this document at this time , that how that they 're placing less emphasis upon production , I mean if their aim is to , if their primary aim is to mobilize mass support that how that production was going to decrease because it was gon na infringe upon rich and middle peasants . |
| 10 | If you just attach this to your |
| 11 | Sometimes when I , I write a poem I want to create a particular mood erm giving the piece erm a shape , a , a definite shape or just a shadowy shape erm and the overcoat in er Bon Jour Monsieur Gaugin , I found very , very expressive and the starting point for , for this particular poem I 'll hand this round to you know , with the name of the , the front , right I do n't , has anybody , if you already know this picture , does anybody actually know it already ? , no I start with the overcoat obviously erm very expressive , not just because it was , people wear over , overcoats in cold days , but it was the size of the coat and the shape of it and , and it gave me a weight , I felt , er I felt a very definite mood erm about this picture because of the coat and it was a , er a ejective mood that I , that I felt from that , and the stick in the erm hands of the women over the bridge gave me the sound for , for this poem would you like me to read as the , the thing being passed around , would that be ok ? |
| 12 | Come forth if you still haunt this place , damned being ! ’ |
| 13 | But if you really feel this , it is usually appropriate to quote the original , rather than incorporate its words into your essay as though they are your own . |
| 14 | When casting , I have the bomb hanging about three feet from the rod-tip ( if you always keep this distance the same you have a better chance of casting consistently ) with my right hand around the butt and reel seat , and the line looped over my index finger . |
| 15 | I mean my dear , I said to Paul , Paul yesterday was was babbling on about if Karen would take him back and I said Paul I shall be extremely displeased if you ever leave this house to go back to Karen , you know o after only being with me for something like three or four weeks , I said you 'll never come back again I said I 'm not going to be messed about like that ! |
| 16 | You 're allowed relatively small quotations of other people without being accused of plagiarism and breach of copyright , but you have to do it advisedly , so make sure you know the rules if you actually do this . |
| 17 | I think one of the problems is not taking out rate card , if you leave out , if you actually say this procedure does not cover full estimates and costs or costing based on rate cards . |
| 18 | And actually if we just counted this to through traffic would n't be too much |
| 19 | Okay so if we just summoned this area right , that area there represents the present value of the discounted stream of income . |
| 20 | erm but these things could be done without going to committees , without any problem whatsoever if we just have this experiment to see how it works . |
| 21 | If we again discount this income at the time or get it looks like that . |
| 22 | If we really followed this advice , the world would be transformed . |
| 23 | For the police may apply to a magistrates ' court which can issue a ‘ warrant of further detention ’ if it reasonably believes this course of action to be justified . |
| 24 | If he ever found this girl he would thank her for choosing to live in that quarter of the city . |
| 25 | A little later she indicates that I am partially returned to favour when I plan to write to The Times condemning the industrial action that was taken by the consultants : ‘ If he really produces this letter to The Times I shall begin to have some faith in him . ’ |
| 26 | If he really thought this would be his father 's reaction , he was cruelly deluding himself . |
| 27 | Because I still think this is very much discriminating on the , people like Val for example , I know she 's got a little bit of scale two but I still think the reception is such a big responsibility |
| 28 | Just go and sit in the room or do something while I just do this . |
| 29 | Now whether you actually wish this to go to the court Council I do n't know . |
| 30 | You should be able to do quite a bit of useful contemplation about whether you actually love this boyfriend of yours . ’ |