Example sentences of "she [vb -s] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | She goes like this with her paws You know how they come in and out and they |
| 2 | Oh Emily do n't do that , erm , I 'm still working with that , she goes like this , she goes |
| 3 | Or the two girls and one is a greaser until she tries this spot cream and suddenly she turns into this total straight . |
| 4 | Cynthia Cockburn is probably quite right when she refers to this as a way of getting women to recognize that they were inferior beings . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're going to go round to Mackenzie 's house and we 're going to ask his daughter what she thinks of this and we 're going to take pictures of him and we 're going to run our own front page with a picture of him and a bloody great headline which says RACIST ! ’ |
| 6 | When asked what she thinks of this , Mrs Li laughs at the quaintness of the question . |
| 7 | She thinks of this step in terms of her ‘ defection ’ . |
| 8 | She can not believe that what she thinks about this and that has any value , because she has thought it . |
| 9 | This is particularly marked in The Mysteries of Udolpho , for when Mrs Radcliffe describes the cottage in which her heroine has taken shelter , she writes of this ‘ bower of sweets ’ as though the reader stood outside it , although Emily , whose view he shares , is indoors , at her bedroom window : ‘ The cottage , which was shaded by the woods from the intenser rays of the sun , and was open only to his evening light , was covered entirely with vines , fig-trees , and jessamine whose flowers surpassed in size and fragrance any that Emily had seen . ’ |
| 10 | and Ruth says I commit myself to him , he will now be my god , and therefore your people will be my people , your home will be my home , your destiny will be my destiny the way is clear , she makes that greatest decision of her life , a decision that will affect the whole of her life but its not as say a life decision is a commitment now , we , we , we are always confronted , day after day we are confronted to make decisions , some of you make decisions and were not too committed about them , and if things alter they will change our minds , not just a ladies prerogative to change her mind , men do it as well and things happen and we think oh no well , I wo n't go through with that I 'll change my mind before its too late , but here Ruth she is not just making a decision , she is making a total commitment , a commitment that is worth time of the whole of her life , to promised to be loyal to de to Naomi and her deceased husband , she promises loyalty to Naomi 's race and the people of god , but above all she acknowledge 's Naomi 's god and her willingness to follow him to the end , you know this , how she finishes of this commitment where you die I will die its to the end its to the end of my life , I will not walk out of it and even after you 've gone mother in law , even after you are dead I am still committed to that decision , this decision I am making today where you die I will die , there I will be buried , and here she sorts of puts this solemn vow to this commitment , thus may the lord to do me and worse if any thing but death parts you and me . |
| 11 | I ca n't understand why she looks like this . |
| 12 | Now Rebecca is five and she looks like this . |
| 13 | You 'll have to break yourself of the habit of bobbing up and down every time my daughter appears , especially when she looks like this . ’ |
| 14 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 15 | ‘ I say , I say , I say , ’ she says in this funny voice . |
| 16 | So , to cut a long story short , she arrives with this … |
| 17 | As she observes in this passage , her approach contests traditional assumptions about metaphor , assumptions that have often gone unquestioned by more recent theorists of rhetoric . |
| 18 | Even if the male is not ready to spawn and chases him away , She swims in this fashion while being pursued , and returns to her chosen mate as soon as possible . |
| 19 | In fact I had thought once she gets over this erm tooth coming through that I might erm start trying to potty train her . |
| 20 | See , she leans over this door and reads your palm and you pays her a bit of silver , sixpence say , or a shilling , and she pops it in this little drawer just beside her . |
| 21 | Every time she walks in this house , she starts him off . |
| 22 | She continues like this until either her last bead drops into an empty hole and her turn ends ; or her last bead dropped creates a new four-bead group in one hole . |
| 23 | In her portrait of Medea — or Medee as she becomes in this staging of the original French version — this is what she uses consistently . |
| 24 | In her portrait of Medea — or Medee as she becomes in this staging of the original French version — this is what she uses consistently . |
| 25 | She decides at this point in the story , that nothing is too bad for those people who have tried to humiliate her throughout her life . |
| 26 | Gingerly , she crawls across this pilot line , trailing behind her a thicker , stronger thread . |
| 27 | Can you suggest why she behaves in this way and how I can prevent injury to everybody in the family ! |
| 28 | Should we not ask ourselves whether the adulteress had a bad family upbringing , lacking in love , that she reacts in this way ? |
| 29 | If she reacts in this way , it will be best not to try to interfere or worry about her tiring herself out with too much activity , as this may be even more disturbing for her . |
| 30 | She infers from this : ‘ thus , in the appropriate real-life situation he learns concrete activities , not abstract generalisations ’ ( ibid. p. 170 ) . |