Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll tell him or anyone , and I meant it , so he started on about this night at the bowling club , but it was his actions Joy , I want to know who 's coming , we need to know , I thought but why 's he fucking boss me about on my private time , anyway to cut a long story short they booked all this night out and I watched and I waited I thought let them clock that I 'm not going , so then comes a phone call , David was in the bottom office so was the letter shark , and this phone call came over and David shouted up to all of us on the machine who 's going on Thursday night ? |
| 2 | Sorry to go on and on about this backing up business , but it 's much better to do it than to end up losing information ( and I write as someone who has done just that in the past ; of course I 'm perfect now ) . |
| 3 | Lee will rap on about this feeling of unison — he calls it the pulse — a mystical experience that arrives when the La 's all hit that special groove at the exact time . |
| 4 | On rehearsal , when our cue came through , we heard him say ‘ I am a sea-gull at the Port of Vancouver ’ instead of the ‘ Fitzpatrick Travelogue ’ script agreed on for this part of the show . |
| 5 | Although the flats are very compact , generally following the standards laid down for this type of housing in DoE Design Bulletin 29 , they share the facilities of a jetty on to the river , and a roof-top conservatory and roof garden , all of which were made possible by a £200,000 grant from the Historic Buildings Council . |
| 6 | I and my colleague thank you on behalf of the people in for this opportunity of presenting our case for acceptance of this petition . |
| 7 | I 'm an old-fashioned textual critic , not a biographer — I do n't go in for this sort of — it was n't profit — I 'll put them back next week — I wanted them to be a secret . |
| 8 | They do n't go in for this sort of thing . |
| 9 | Yes , Americans , erm I have the impression , they 're being rather slow to go in for this sort of Federal legislation . |
| 10 | er There is obviously a certain party atmosphere at Conferences , it 's the one big chance of the year for many many hard-working activists to get together and share ideas , it does engender er a certain amount of frivolity er around the edges , so we 'll see some of that , but we do n't go in for this cult of leadership which the other parties do , you wo n't see any manufactured longstanding ovations for er leaders . |
| 11 | This in turn explains why the infinitive can evoke both the wide range of all possible realizers ( as in To visit the poor is a Christian obligation ) and the narrowing down of this range to one particular spatial support ( for instance , to the speaker as in Oh to be in England … ) . |
| 12 | , cos unless we 're going to get it straight , but it just all comes in like this time of year , and just comes and let us in . |
| 13 | There 's a watercourse that runs along the bottom of the passage , and you have to make your way along above this slit with water pouring through it . |
| 14 | ‘ So I 'm surrounded by kids , then adults too and dragged down into this tent for tea , and you ca n't refuse their hospitality , that 's really serious business . |
| 15 | Well this all had coal and , and the , the chimneys want wanted sweeping and if you did n't sweep your chimney regular the soot used to come down onto this water into , into this er boiler . |
| 16 | ‘ How does that fit in with this idea of a universe that doubles back on itself ? ’ |
| 17 | Okay that does not fit in with this style of newspaper . |
| 18 | And also I think , which is very strong and I think it does come out in , in the Chinese Communist Party , is the lust of power which can be even more dangerous when you convince yourself I 'll do all you lot good but I can make you all members of the Communist Party , whether you want to be or not does n't really matter , you know , it 's gon na be for the good of the country so you fall in with this trap of assuming that you want is for their good so it 's sort of a , a dangerous thing . |
| 19 | But for the moment we shall go along with this way of looking at things . |
| 20 | The volume of expertise available to bureaucracies has increased along with this expansion of state activities . |
| 21 | The British government er not only went along with this agreement at the time of the Edinburgh summit , they positively endorsed this arrangement er as being something that they er strongly supported and urged upon other member states in the European community er and that I think is a relevant matter with respect er Mr Deputy Speaker , I I appreciate that er there are other issues relating to these er er constituencies that are of greater concern perhaps to er honourable and right honourable members but this question of who actually is to pay for any new building in the European parliament is something that I believe the government can not avoid . |
| 22 | Stevenson himself goes along with this view to a far greater extent than seems appropriate . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , despite much wisdom , and many excellent passages , I would not go along with this book in numerous details , nor in its general attitude . |
| 24 | Along with this distinction between ‘ public ’ and ‘ private ’ , the Wolfenden Committee also distinguished between ‘ crime ’ and ‘ sin ’ , making it clear that it was only concerned with the former . |
| 25 | The presupposition here ( that it is indeed SF ) merely makes explicit what is implied in including this passage in a questionnaire on SF . |
| 26 | And Dickens does mention both , I am told , ’ Auguste added anxiously in case Rose too should look down upon this departure from the true Dickensian menu . |
| 27 | This lonely spot , at nearly 1700 feet , I call Birkdale Summit in the absence of an official name , the long valley of Birkdale going down from this point to Keld . |
| 28 | She wondered how much longer it would be before Jack was brought in in this sort of state , and how she would feel if he was . |
| 29 | All you have to do is lower me down in this bucket to just above the sea . |
| 30 | ‘ I told her I 'd try and see you while I was down in this part of the world . ’ |