Example sentences of "[to-vb] this [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 2 | It is possible to nuance this view slightly as regards the Edinburgh union leadership . |
| 3 | If it chooses to interfere , it can formulate its decision in the words : ‘ The court below had no jurisdiction to decide this point wrongly as it did . ’ |
| 4 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 5 | My crew were never aware of my lapse and I am just as ashamed to tell this story today as I would had I told it 45 years ago . |