Example sentences of "[pron] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my book , there is nothing this ex-president has done , or said , since leaving the White House which is worthy of attention — especially considering the many worthy things ex-presidents can do and say . |
| 2 | Nothing this morning yet , either . ’ |
| 3 | The unit does nothing this turn while the Bosses crack heads together to restore order . |
| 4 | ‘ You know , Sir John , if we find nothing this afternoon then I agree , we should record verdicts of suicide and murder and leave this matter alone for we are making little progress . ’ |
| 5 | We have heard nothing this evening about where the money will come from . |
| 6 | Romany King has done nothing this year but the fact that he ran so well last time at Aintree has kept him short in the market . |
| 7 | Anyway , she hit the hedge which is only about an inch thick and found there was nothing this side . |
| 8 | I 've had nothing this week . |
| 9 | Was there nothing this man did that she did n't like , did n't respond to ? |
| 10 | Sentencing Clarke to 21 months in prison and a 3 year driving ban , Judge Francis Allen said , ’ nothing this court can do can remedy the harm that you caused by your decision to drive that day . |
| 11 | Judge Allen told Clarke : ‘ Nothing this court can do can remedy the harm caused by your decision to drive on that day . ’ |
| 12 | I 've got nothing this afternoon . |
| 13 | May we use his example to remind us to be caring and compassionate to everyone this Christmas time . |
| 14 | What 's the matter with everyone this morning ? ’ |
| 15 | Everyone this way ! ’ |
| 16 | And these words , that I command thee this day , shall be upon thy heart ; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children , and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house , and when thou walkest by the way , and when thou liest down , and when thou riseth up . |
| 17 | When on this point , I have pearch 'd thy father 's soule , Ile tender thee this bloody reeking hand Drawne forth the bowels of that murtherer : If thou canst love me then , I'le marry thee , And for thy father lost , get thee a Sonne ; On no condition else . |
| 18 | ‘ Prevent us , O Lord , we beseech thee this day with thy most gracious favour … ’ |
| 19 | I WAS SURPRISED THAT YOU JOSTLED ME , RINCEWIND , FOR I HAVE AN APPOINTMENT WITH THEE THIS VERY NIGHT . |
| 20 | … by eck as like lad I 'll tell thee this . |
| 21 | To me this is odd as if I were the president of South Korea I would have imprisoned Kim Hyun-hui and released Im Su Kyong as to me Kim Hyun-hui committed the more serious crime . |
| 22 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 23 | ‘ I … you brought me all the way up here … moonlight and dinner , to tell me this ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Here you are talking and holding forth , ’ says the latter , ‘ but tell me this : are you going to kill the old woman yourself ? ’ |
| 25 | that closes round me this year . |
| 26 | Economists have told me this could be the final push that will consign up to 250,000 people to the scrap heap . ’ |
| 27 | Maybe the police has made me this way , but do you not see that if you 're going to come in here asking me questions about my family , if you 're going to want to know all these things , I 've got to be able to trust you ? |
| 28 | ‘ Stand at ease , Piper , ’ remarked Charlie , a big grin on his face , then he went serious and remarked slowly , ‘ You have done what you came here to do , Piper ; you piped Lovat 's brigade ashore and now I would like you to return to Achnacarry with me this evening . |
| 29 | Since Siah told me this story about a supreme storyteller , 1 have told the story myself many times . |
| 30 | Marie bought me this blummin huge jigsaw with millions of bits . |