Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its reflection on the water surface of the river at Abingdon advanced towards me , in this case not exactly to my feet because I was up on the bridge , but whatever else I managed to achieve in the picture I had to make this plane of the river advance . |
| 2 | In describing her daily life every woman interviewed outlined the kind of standards she thought it important to stick to in housework , and the type of routine she used to achieve this end . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Unix International is being very secretive about an announcement it expects to make this week that it hopes will propel the industry further along the path of unity . |
| 4 | The technique we use to solve this model ( that of undetermined coefficients ) is as described in the previous chapter . |
| 5 | Somewhat on impulse I decided to try this route . |
| 6 | 2 If you do not have the same answer as the one at the end of 6 , what does this reveal about the schema you employed to interpret this discourse ? |
| 7 | As I say sir we need to put this matter back to later in the day . |
| 8 | In order to complete his case he had to challenge this deference to a patristic consensus — which he did by observing that the church fathers had taken the motion of the sun for granted because the alternative had not , in that era , been laid before them . |
| 9 | She shot a swift glance at Paul in case he decided to amend this statement , but he merely smiled quirkily and said , ‘ Exactly ! ’ |
| 10 | That is the only reason I agreed to write this message to you . |
| 11 | In some ways as regards the , the layout and the appearance of the thing I tend to prefer this version because on this one erm if we have a look at that there 's just like l oh my God loads of numbers oh no |
| 12 | His wife , Pauline said : ‘ We thought it was such a nice letter we wanted to help this man track down the right Don Adamson . |
| 13 | In our final Report we decided to excise this list of authors because , as we explained , it had attracted so much unfortunate attention . |
| 14 | Indeed , it might be ventured that whenever there is the possibility we prefer to use this basis of organisation , probably because it is intrinsically more accessible and more firmly established as part of our mental " set " . |
| 15 | While other economic and social changes are undermining full economic and social citizenship for the underclass , any retreat from universal political citizenship results in the underclass losing the little political clout they have to reverse this trend . |
| 16 | But the language she uses to describe this process demonstrates her parodic attitude toward it . |
| 17 | To adequately understand the beginnings of urban sociology we need to develop this theme a little further . |
| 18 | For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion . |