Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] this " in BNC.
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31 | Economists were being involved in the process of economic decision making in a manner which had been unknown previously , and most of them found this admission to the counsels of the influential and powerful to be very congenial . |
32 | The West 's manifest unwillingness to use force against the Bosnian Serbs to get them to accept this plan has contributed to the latest rejection that the plan has suffered , the resounding No delivered by more than nine out of ten Bosnian Serb voters in last weekend 's referendum . |
33 | The role of the social services here is the vital but subordinate one of enabling them to meet this need effectively . |
34 | ‘ Will you bring me to meet this man ? ’ he asked . |
35 | In retrospect , the greatest disservice Charles Howard ever did me was the way he had somehow made it impossible for me to trust this man . |
36 | And er you you you could hear them patting this butter outside a shop you know , it was a lovely sound on marble slabs and they were patting away at this butter . |
37 | Now I know , know of no law of economics which would permit that , would you be prepared for us to pay a lot out of tax payers ' resources to give to the Soviet people , to help their economy , to help them survive this very difficult transition period ? |
38 | Let me qualify this statement . |
39 | The experience of watching my late husband 's 16-year fight against the degenerative effects of Parkinson 's disease ( one of those conditions which might one day benefit from embryo research ) causes me to write this letter in the hope that all who take part in the debates will recognise and confound these tactics of the anti-abortion pressure groups , quite rightly described by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service as ‘ an attempt to hijack government legislation ’ . |
40 | When the Editor asked me to write this article I happily agreed . |
41 | After I got back to work I realised just how many people do n't give blood in the Institute ( which is what prompted me to write this article ) . |
42 | It has always been one of my regrets that life did not make it possible for me to know this quiet , strong artist and teacher better . |
43 | But she has done nothing to deserve this . ’ |
44 | She 's done nothing to deserve this . ’ |
45 | Does everyone know this ? |
46 | Er , it 's it 's you do n't have to be frightened of letting me know this , because , it it stands to reason , that it 's going to happen , okay . |
47 | me driving this blooming car |
48 | If not , can I make this happen with some form of manual override switch ? |
49 | But when and how did I make this escape ? |
50 | Can I make this ? |
51 | For example , I perceive this flower in front of me because light which has been reflected from it impinges on my retina and causes trains of nerve impulses to travel along the visual pathways to the visual cortex . |
52 | A moment 's reflection would have helped him to see the folly , cruelty , and hypocrisy of trying to force someone to acknowledge this . |
53 | I I know the question about rent was mentioned but , I 'm just talking generally now , I asked this question to another housing association how do you justify rents of sixty pounds and above for accommodation and social housing ? |
54 | Erm but I mean i i you know the reason I asked this question is that , if this group said now , Absolutely no way . |
55 | I asked this housemaster to develop this further . |
56 | And another thing I asked this engineer that were in charge of job . |
57 | Well , er I asked this , because erm , when I was having my house it came up , and I and I pointed out to her th the astonishing anomaly , I said , look erm , everybody knows about manuscript , Ernest and his biography of Freud mentions it and says he read it and reports rather well of it , actually , was really quite impressed with it . |
58 | That 's the question I asked this morning , Why was n't it you know , why were n't we doing it ? |
59 | Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made . |
60 | And I I , I , I commend this to the church and I , and I 'm glad the commissioner had a chance to come back and speak again about his concern about erm the waiting list for transplants . |