Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story ends with the teacher coming over and praising him for this reaction and Little Turtle receiving a very good report card that term . |
| 2 | And then we go beyond that , and develop it into this sort of slightly murky negative area . |
| 3 | Anyway , I really was going to take the spell off straight away , but of course you have to go hopping off and get caught and land us in this mess . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sorry I ran and got us into this mess . |
| 5 | This is n't the way that the current system reasons , and I would certainly like to take the current system and push it in this direction of being more expert in a human sense . |
| 6 | Now , I have much to be getting on with and would appreciate your not following me about and interrupting me like this . |
| 7 | ‘ Till my husband returns , and rescues me from this misery ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He swears that the Brigadier and the Brigade Major use his establishment and supply him with this vital information . |
| 9 | Go now , and say nothing about this . ’ |
| 10 | Can you find the hole and plug it with this ? ’ |
| 11 | He rather hoped his wife would wake and catch him like this , unshaven , hair greasy and uncombed , and as he stood beside the bed he farted quite loudly , as if to remind her that she deserved someone as awful as him . |
| 12 | Charles reproved her for rushing on ahead of his story , and told her about this Sergeant lurking within like a spider waiting for a juicy fly . |
| 13 | But is n't there , is n't there a big difference between sort of recognizing the faults of past land reforms and advocating something like this ? |
| 14 | That 's very different from say er destroying this book and replacing it with this book . |
| 15 | Was she actually planning to aid and abet him in this unexpected , meaningless sexual dalliance ? |
| 16 | ‘ You should be ashamed of yourself , ’ she said to Pooley , ‘ aiding and abetting him like this . |
| 17 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |
| 18 | And I unloaded at Mr Riggs on Norwich Hill ( he used to contract for all the horses with the post-office ; and we used to take hay there ) , and I pulled the load into his yard ; took the horses out , and put them into this load what my uncle — what they sent away . |
| 19 | Well I used to the grindstone was in the cart shed , you see , and er I used to turn the handle whilst he ground his knives down and then he 'd take them in the slaughterhouse , after he got them ground , and put them on this stone to get them smooth , to get a fine edge on the knife . |
| 20 | And what they do , I 'm going to try and show you on this doll in a minute , the hips are abducted which means they 're brought right up against the chest and then they 're pulled round and they 're rotated in the socket and you feel and listen for a click |
| 21 | But if you are still in the UK for the four days from July 15–18 , put a note in your dairy to come and see us at this year 's Art in Action at Waterperry House , Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
| 22 | Well he sai he did say he was gon na come and see you about this money . |
| 23 | And when it has been well washed and made clean , ye shall dry it well , and anoint it with this myrrh and balsam , from these golden caskets , from head to foot , so that every part shall be anointed , till none be left . |
| 24 | Corbett vaguely recalled the building as a pleasant two-storeyed affair : the fire must have caught the sun-dried timbers and turned it into this blackened mess . |
| 25 | ( iii ) To analyse the fluorescence , fix the cells or embryos in 4% formaldehyde in PBS for 10 min , wash them in M2 + BSA and mount them in this medium in the wells of a tissue typing slide ( Baird and Tatlock , see Section 4.1.1 ) . |
| 26 | Exhausted , Andrew lowers his head and their tongues meet and Andrew slides down and hugs Iain 's legs , hoping that they will become immobile and lock him in this position and never separate . |
| 27 | Come and tell me about this morning , ’ He looked round for Catherine to discover that with admirable good sense she had asked for the facilities of the house , and was being issued with soap and hand-towels by Miss Williams . |
| 28 | He had told her , so that today he could be free — free to go to Charity and tell her about this astonishing feeling inside of him . |
| 29 | When I very deliberately try and remember it like this I know I end up remembering it and describing it being like a bar scene in a musical , where everyone that the camera pans past is a very definite character , and they 're all so eager when the camera is on them , clapping and laughing and tapping their feet to the music so convincingly . |
| 30 | I wanted to grab people by the throat and confront them with this terrible situation that was being allowed to continue . |