Example sentences of "this [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 've accepted that I can do this for a certain amount of time . |
2 | It already seems obvious that Mr Kinnock will be the earliest beneficiary , and this for a simple reason . |
3 | I no longer believe — nor do I desire — that Semiology should be a simple science , a positive science , and this for a primordial reason : it is the responsibility of semiology … to question its own discourse … finally , science knows no site of security , and in this it must acknowledge itself as writing . |
4 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
5 | Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote . |
6 | Again , we have paid lip-service to this for a long time , but it has not been an easy ideal to achieve . |
7 | I 've been meaning to say this for a long time , ’ said Susan , with an assumption of severity which moved her sister to ribald mirth . |
8 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
9 | The department 's going to hear about this for a long time . ’ |
10 | " I have advocated this for a long time " , he declared , " and now I see that some of the shipowners are inclined to agree to it . |
11 | They stayed together like this for a long time . |
12 | I know you 've thought about this for a long time , ’ he hissed , gripping her shoulders tightly to prevent movement . |
13 | They remained like this for a long time . |
14 | I thought about this for a long time and slowly I realized that I was not extraordinary in this . |
15 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
16 | I was thought of as rather gallant and dashing , and I played on this for a long time , emphasizing the cruelty and hardship aspects of the camp , and skating over the boredom and hunger , which were what I chiefly remembered . |
17 | Stars will remain stable like this for a long time , with heat from the nuclear reactions balancing the gravitational attraction . |
18 | I do this for a long time . |
19 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |
20 | I 've been wanting to say this for a long time . ’ |
21 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
22 | ‘ We have wanted something like this for a long time . ’ |
23 | I do n't think he will be able to , like this for a long time . |
24 | she obviously did n't know this for a long time and then one day I said to her , well , it was lovely meal and all that but I do think your mark-up on the wine is scandalous ! |
25 | They 've known they 've known about this for a fair while . |
26 | He considered this for a short time and concluded that he had to make a public stand for those things which he believed . |
27 | Someone tried to organise a concert party , and there was a great deal of enthusiasm for this for a short time . |
28 | But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do . |
29 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
30 | How about this for a cheeky goal … skipper Chris Myers caught Town asleep with a quickly taken free kick … |