Example sentences of "this [pers pn] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , seeing me mixing rose madder and burnt sienna in my paint-box , ‘ what 's all this I hear about a new mother ? ’ |
| 2 | This I regard as a possible but less natural meaning of the section . |
| 3 | And er the fire was underneath this you see in a little grate and you used to open the door and stoke it up and er more often than not it was fired by slack , which was a residue of the coal out of the coal house , you know when you broke your coal up with the lumps the the little sl bits of slack they were all put on one side for the copper fire . |
| 4 | If teachers tap into this they plug into a powerhouse of emotional — and potentially intellectual — energy . |
| 5 | However , for this they lock into a different sort of electricity — that produced by the prey itself . |