Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If we have such a debate , it will be possible for him to raise this matter , as he will be able to do on other occasions .
2 From these women 's descriptions of their days , it is clear that rarely , if ever , is it possible for them to make this distinction either .
3 It was OK for her to do this kind of thing when in a mediumistic trance , but this was n't quite that , was it ?
4 ‘ It was crucial for us to secure this contract .
5 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 .
6 But if it was so easy for me to see this evidence and to talk to those who had substantial proof of their ownership of homes in mandate Palestine , surely it would be no more difficult to go to Israel , find those same homes and — the idea had a special excitement about it — to knock on those same front doors .
7 It was typical of him to choose this pub .
8 Berry dismisses criticism of climbs of this kind , made recently by Reinhiold Messner among others : ‘ It 's all very well for him to say this kind of thing , but when he climbed Everest for the first time without oxygen and on other occasions , he was quite happy to make use of heavyweight-style expeditions .
9 Everybody had a contract that was made specific to them saying this material , these audio tapes are your property .
10 It is equally convenient for us to divide this chapter accordingly .
11 I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home .
12 Gombrich sombrely recalled hearing about Auschwitz while working at the BBC Monitoring Service during the war : ‘ They claimed at that time — I remember that as if it were yesterday — they claimed that at least five million people had been killed , and I remember a colleague of mine coming to me to check this figure , because it seemed impossible .
13 It is necessary for you to take this kind of positive approach ; think in terms of maximizing the number of nutrients that you derive from food by eating the right kind of balance of different foods during meals .
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