Example sentences of "[vb base] this [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haney and Ullmer ( 1970 ) note that the modern American generation will have viewed , on average , 15,000 hours of television , attended 500 motion pictures and spent approximately 11,000 hours in class by the end of their school careers , and put this forward as a reason for using television and film very much more in the classroom . |
| 2 | I put this down as a reason for brother Carl 's behaviour and shortcomings ; his tantrums , his many displays of neurosis , his lack of tolerance with others , and his need for understanding — which we , his brothers and sisters , failed to give . |
| 3 | Move right to a corner and climb this steeply to a ledge — belay here . |
| 4 | One dentist I know , is so used to dealing with hypersensitive children that he says — and I mean to me — ‘ Now , pop this in like a lollipop ’ , but I do n't mind that either because , about twenty years after everyone else , I 've discovered the benefits of meditation . |
| 5 | Roll this out on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour to a large rectangle and use to cover the large cake . |
| 6 | I state this only as a general and not as an invariable premise because of the possibility of cases in which the court would not authorise treatment of a distressing nature which offered only a small hope of preserving life . |
| 7 | We ask this not as a government minister might , faced with the seemingly interminable demands of research scientists for more and more funds , but to try to see what relationship research bears to knowledge . |
| 8 | Try this out on a bit of spare yarn to see if you like the effect . |
| 9 | I offer this merely as a piece of information . |
| 10 | mark this out in a table do n't you ? |
| 11 | I have never been able to subscribe to the extreme schools of thought which see this either as a sin or as an act of brave defiance . |