Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb -s] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I gets this one out and I 'm reading through it and I looks at the name John , and then I began to take an interest in it and , here I discovered that my grandfather and my great grandfather that 's like my grandfather and my grandmother 's father |
| 2 | And there 's a time when my father lived at the , and I 'm going up the road this night and I hears this queer kind of grunting , and I could n't understand it of course it was dark and I hears it again . |
| 3 | right so that must be a third okay and someone holds this up and says , What 's that ? |
| 4 | Over the page Chair , within er , those totals there are a number of proposals for reductions in c certain areas of spending and increases in others , which are in excess of the amount which has been delegated to , er , to the Director to agree , and which needs this Committee 's approval erm , and would then go on to er , Resources Management for , for their agreement . |
| 5 | You do not leave this platform and nobody leaves this hall until you have eaten the entire cake that is sitting there in front of you ! |
| 6 | If you find someone who claims to be a qualified hypnotherapist and who uses this technique , I would advise you to keep looking . |
| 7 | In Enzo 's mind , there is no one else at his level , so that any such pretensions are just lèse majest é'; , and lèse majest é'; , we know , is just a step up from insolence , and who does this little Austrian think he is ? |
| 8 | And she does this by telling the stories of her different heroes in a series of ever more tense situations of suspense , situations where the outcome is fearfully doubtful . |
| 9 | Anyway they two little old girls , little old boys in there so she come and this woman who looks after little old baby , she was about there and she gets this baby out , well I tell you what he did n't miss a bloody trick he did n't ! |
| 10 | The only other dissenter is Mary Midgley who , with good sense , questions the pride of place given to an unambiguous vegetarianism ( 1983 : 25–7 ) : ‘ What the animals need most urgently is probably a campaign for treating them better before they are eaten ’ , and she augments this by advocating a gradual move towards the consumption of less meat ( 27 ) . |
| 11 | If successful , he presents her with a package of sperm and she collects this in her vent . |
| 12 | The camera adores her and she has this wonderful presence that comes through the camera lens . |
| 13 | You just see her on camera and she has this wonderful something . ’ |
| 14 | David John , defending , said : ‘ Miss Pritchard has some history of a drink problem and she regrets this incident . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ She rings up and complains to James that she has n't any money and she wants this and she wants that . |
| 16 | Thomas discussed the relationship between love and poetry much later in Feminine Influence on the Poet : ‘ The love-poem is not for the beloved , for it is not worthy , as it is the least thing that is given to her , and none knows this better than she unless it be the lover … . |
| 17 | And one feels this even when he is at his most learned . |
| 18 | Much of the activity ( and one says this with both elation and exasperation ) is the kind which good teacher-librarians , not tied to purely literary objectives , have long advocated , but extended to include not only the " newer " media but also the resources of the world outside . |
| 19 | Tim Russon is down there and he sends this report from the banks of the Thames . |
| 20 | Terry Biddlecombe says its a good horse and he thinks this is magic for racing … lots of happy people who own their own horse |
| 21 | And these people who are moaning and groaning at Jesus , Jesus turns to them and he speaks this parable . |
| 22 | And so quickly he makes his way to the gate of the city as we 've said , and he gets this man he sits down with the te with the te , with the ten elders who would be witnesses and the kinsman arrives . |
| 23 | He comes up to him and he goes , you 're only a trainee , and he goes this is the first time we 've ever sent the scum bag back , oh , the scum bag , that 's a big strong even if you are god and he , he |
| 24 | And this is the sort of thing that he says , and he says this kind of thing very frequently . |
| 25 | Rochlin ‘ feminizes ’ masculinity to just the degree required to rehabilitate it as the dominant term in the masculine/feminine binary , and he does this through the by now familiar move of positing homosexuality as the inadequate yet threatening third term . |
| 26 | Then , in Capital , Marx attempts to break through and out of the veil of economic ideology , and he does this by showing that the way the economy is usually talked about hides the real basis of society and served to maintain the exploitation on which it rests . |
| 27 | Robbins 's purpose here is to define theatre as the quality of his narration as well as the subject-matter , and he does this by introducing three author-surrogates . |
| 28 | I point out some nice pink stocks and he does this huge shudder and goes ‘ Uuuuuugggh . ’ |
| 29 | The ‘ proactive ’ fishkeeper will medicate with malachite green and formalin , every spring and autumn , to bring down populations of protozoan parasites , and he does this irrespective of whether or not the fish are showing signs of discomfort . |
| 30 | Mind you , he runs the skittles and he runs football and he does this and runs that . |