Example sentences of "[am/are] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] this " in BNC.
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1 | How am I going to manage this house and be a wife you can be proud of , when I 've been brought up a different way , and everybody in the place knows it ? ’ |
2 | I really like Nick , I thought , how am I going to explain this ? |
3 | I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’ |
4 | And in a radio programme , you have exactly the same thing , it 's the first fifteen or twenty seconds which makes you decide ‘ Am I going to listen to this , or am I going to switch this off , and go out and make a cup of tea or take the dog for a walk ? ’ |
5 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
6 | ‘ Am I meant to believe this , Sung ? |
7 | How many people are you getting to do this thing ? |
8 | Are you prepared to debate this one issue with me in public ? |
9 | ‘ Well , are you prepared to take this man on ? ’ |
10 | ‘ Are you trying to make this even more intolerable for me than it already is ? ’ |
11 | How are you trying to calculate this ? |
12 | What are you going to do this week ? |
13 | Right now how are you going to do this one , two fifteenths ? |
14 | ‘ What are you going to call this masterwork ? ’ |
15 | Are you , what are you going to call this form now Si Is it the qualitative review form or |
16 | ‘ And how are you going to explain this creature to your little ladyfriend ? ’ |
17 | Are you going to explain this to them ? |
18 | And how are you going to live this , this , this er physical activity er again I certainly had plenty of mental through this dance group as well as the physical . |
19 | ‘ Are you going to buy this table ? |
20 | Are you going to read this page ? |
21 | Are you going to eat this cheese roll ? |
22 | He asked me , ‘ How are you going to run this race ? ’ |
23 | ‘ How long are you going to keep this up , Jessamy ? ’ he enquired , looking at her now with new intensity . |
24 | While the onus is on the defence , most police officers ’ statements contain the question ‘ Are you insured to drive this motor vehicle ? ’ |
25 | ‘ Tell me , are you paid to do this , or you got a problem with this man ? ’ |
26 | But the thing is , what they do tend to do is , they suddenly find themselves in a panic because they 've behaved like this about it and the person at the other end is shouting when are you coming to see this organ |
27 | I 'm in favour Poland , Hungary , Romania to be brought in or are we going to remain this tight little club , which is not Europe , if it 's just that little |
28 | Now the feeling person on the other hand faced with this sort of suggestion would immediately start saying , well erm why are we going to do this ? |
29 | ‘ So what are we going to do this time ? |
30 | How are we going to do this — at fifty thousand ? |