Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] in this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it my Unconscious ( of the existence of which I have informed doubts ) that has dropped me in this plight ? |
| 2 | I emphasise that I do not believe that any individual or manager in the health service has done anything in this case which departs from the principles upon which the health service is built . |
| 3 | So can you er look at it in that light and you will see of course that and I can understand why Mr has done it in this way , he has actually broken down er his the approach to this to looking at this criterion , under the three heads , road , rail and bus . |
| 4 | If danger threatens powerful muscles can snap the valves tightly shut , and once a bivalve has closed itself in this way it can be very difficult to force it open — it has ‘ clammed ’ up . |
| 5 | It is not recommended to exercise her in this condition , because of the unwelcomed attention she will receive , and the risk of her becoming pregnant . |
| 6 | I 've scoured the the technical professional press to find out if there is some general statement which sums up what sustainability means , and the one which I 've seen most commonly referred to , I think , and the government has used it in this way , is a requirement to ensure the needs of the present generation are met in a way which does not prejudice future generations , now I do not believe that a properly conceived and located new settlement is any less sustainable in the long term that other forms of urban growth , and by properly conceived I 've got to say I believe that to mean properly balanced er form of development for the new settlement , and I think I would say that new settlements have usually been proposed because continued infilling , like the the normal forms of accommodating further development requirements , infill , and peripheral development , have been determined in York context not to be sustainable , the sorts of issues which arise as a result erm of additional development in or on the edge of York and the surrounding villages , problems of additional congestion , loss of green space in towns , loss of employment opportunities and so on . |
| 7 | ‘ I should think Dane will enjoy embracing me in this outfit , do n't you ? ’ |
| 8 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 9 | I am rather surprised that Martin Frears has found himself in this predicament . |
| 10 | And it is apparent that Ackroyd has found himself in this manner — through exposure to Wilde , Eliot , and now Chatterton . |
| 11 | If they want to join us in this enterprise , so much the better . |
| 12 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 13 | Scaevola refuses to interpret it in this way . |
| 14 | It is perhaps somewhat strange , given the proven commercial success of the VT600 , that very little effort is made to market it in this country . |
| 15 | I think , er you know , they 're just a , you know , if , if they were erm elm trees or something like that , or you know blackthorn trees here and you 'd taken them in this country , you 'd say , oh there 's a couple of blackthorn trees ! |
| 16 | Erm , I seem to find myself in this committee in a minority of one . |
| 17 | She thought she would never dare touch anything in this house in case she left marks . |
| 18 | This pseudo-cleft structure would signal that the first part ‘ we are attempting to draw something in this book ’ is given and the second part ‘ this something is a general picture ’ is new . |
| 19 | I would now like to ask everyone in this room to stand with me , and raise their glasses . |
| 20 | Secondly , the IBM Agent market does not welcome untried and untested ( new ) products with open arms , and Cognos has been attempting to prove itself in this market . |
| 21 | Now I want at least , to intro introduce the possibility in the series of diagrams I 'm going to show you in this lecture that we can relate it to the four stages of pathogenesis that we , we outline briefly er , in the last lecture . |
| 22 | Even taking into account the fact that you 're dead , really … ask yourself , if I asked you straight off — I 'm going to stuff you in this box now , would you rather be alive or dead ? |
| 23 | If you are out shopping , get tired , and are tempted by a cake and a cup of coffee , your overall health regime should not suffer because you decide to enjoy yourself in this way occasionally . |
| 24 | His defence lawyer says the case is unique in French law in that the court accepted Kim might have stabbed herself in this way . |
| 25 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
| 26 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Kenneth Clarke tells the programme how she once asked : ‘ Why do I have to do everything in this Government ? ’ and no-one had the nerve to give her the obvious answer — she did n't have to do everything . |
| 27 | ‘ Now Jane , ’ turning to me , ‘ I 'll have to leave you in this room with Mason while I fetch the doctor . |
| 28 | Having known him in this country and having travelled around Israel with him , I know that he is tough and resilient . |
| 29 | If she 'd stayed in a fit state then she would n't have found herself in this situation now . |
| 30 | But whalers could have enlightened them in this respect , for they knew that whales possessed acute hearing , the constant ‘ twittering ’ of the White whale even earning it the name of the sea canary . |