Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gulf has seen nothing on this scale before . ’ |
| 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 | Now this time we 're here for four weeks so it would probably be that they want to get everybody through this time without anybody escaping the net . |
| 4 | ‘ Nobody needs to tell anyone at this club how important our next two home games are . |
| 5 | But Clare seemed to know nothing of this side of the relationship between her brother and her cousin . |
| 6 | He 'd said something to this lady and under normal circumstances he would not a she would n't have said anything |
| 7 | God in heaven , he seemed to do nothing on this job but envy Boxer and his easy role . |
| 8 | Okay , I would like to thank everybody on this item who has taken part in the responsible bits of the debate . |
| 9 | However — ’ he shrugged ‘ — my vet in Westmead ca n't be expected to come out so far so I 've obviously got to find one for this shop . ’ |
| 10 | And one was that this bungalow should be retained completely er by members of the Hosiery Finishers in spite of being a national union which of course has still operated , and secondly , that er nobody should go to this union until er er at least when I 've finished that they should be voted for and they were n't going to impose anybody on this union , they 'd vote for somebody from among their own members , which of course operated and that 's operating now . |
| 11 | She thought she would never dare touch anything in this house in case she left marks . |
| 12 | I am going to do something about this child , she told herself . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I would now like to ask everyone in this room to stand with me , and raise their glasses . |
| 15 | But Mr Reynolds declared : ‘ Our first priority is to get all parties around the table , and we would not want to do anything at this stage that might hinder the process . |
| 16 | Elizabeth 's friend Maud must have said something of this sort , for I find I once wrote to her : ‘ Maud was right , I think . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As it happened , Mr Kim did not have to do anything about this affair . |
| 19 | And , there was some on a plate and my sister 's little lad went up and went to take one off this plate and then Valerie tu turned round , she said er , you ca n't have one of them , them are for the old folks . |
| 20 | I do know something of this city . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't think Andy ever meant to do anything with this place . |
| 22 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 23 | Nevertheless anyone who wishes to say something in this area must draw on the results of research undertaken by the social sciences and so must accept their autonomy . |
| 24 | We have already tried to capture something of this dilemma when we wrote of unskilled workers as follows : |
| 25 | Mr , do you want to say anything at this stage ? |
| 26 | It has often been pointed out that even if he had written nothing before this stage he would still be regarded as an important poet . |
| 27 | Well I promise I wo n't keep them more than that , but this coming from a party that 's brought about that , and then being critical of others and the lack of intent , I think the he said it right at the beginning we have a very good education system , and I 'm saying we 've got one despite this Government . |
| 28 | I 've got one behind this knee here |
| 29 | Now , we 've got one in this department , like this , and er , one of our graduate students was very interested in it , and since she was just finishing her P H D the in some of the ways , some of the most erm , outspoken erm , persons for this , but I 'm certainly not alone . |
| 30 | ‘ But the thrust of our approach is to start at home , focusing on one thing at a time rather than confusing ourselves by trying to do everything at once — which is a major reason why 85 per cent of organisations trying to do something in this area fail to get it right . |