Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organisations seeking to avail themselves of this opportunity need to catch a high speed train pretty quickly ! ’ |
| 2 | It was as if time had lost all meaning , as if even that were conspiring to hasten him to this place where he would spend the rest of his life . |
| 3 | We had been looking forward rather to this little drive between East and West Tarbert , but our greatest pleasure was when we stepped safely down at the pier where the little Islay steamer " Fingal " was waiting to carry us to this island of Jura . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Not going to tackle him about this business of Dora 's golf-club , are you ? ’ |
| 6 | He needed all his skill and tact if he was going to extricate himself from this situation and spend the night sleeping in his hotel bed , alone . |
| 7 | How many men are you going to give me for this work ? ’ |
| 8 | I am going to do something about this child , she told herself . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But what I was going to tell you about this loan and I was there on this Friday morning when we were drawing our money , and the men were bringing their their s life savings to lend to the union . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | All I need for you to tell me right now is you 're going to commit yourself to this product and I will come round and we 'll sign the contract , all the stuff you told him , then we 'll talk about copy and it does n't cost you anything . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | I was just beginning to enjoy myself at this dance , when up came Section Officer Hutchcroft , the junior Waaf Officer , the light of battle in her eyes . |
| 16 | In a sane world , I thought , we would have discussed the state of my feelings , debated whether I loved Syl sufficiently to commit the rest of my life to him , questioned my views on the institution of marriage , examined my mother 's motives in striving to introduce me into this state , have said something of some interest . |
| 17 | Anyone wishing to avail themselves of this facility should contact the Hotel direct . |
| 18 | Staff wishing to avail themselves of this flexitime arrangement should discuss it in the first instance with their line manager . |
| 19 | The world number two said : ‘ I 've had a very busy early season , playing in China , Dubai and Belgium , so I 'm just trying to refresh myself before this tournament . |
| 20 | She took personal charge of the cellars and , well aware of the problem posed by the obstinate particles of sediment which refused to fall easily , spent night and day trying to rid herself of this nuisance . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Its owner , Okan Guney , has been trying to breed them at this home in Kidlington for two years . |
| 23 | There is no biographical key with which it can be unlocked — and I have not been trying to turn one in this essay of mine , which does not believe it , for that matter , to be locked . |
| 24 | ‘ What were you trying to teach me in this Lord ? ’ |
| 25 | I 'm trying to get one for this model here , we have a lot of these erm similar chassis in them . |
| 26 | Perhaps there were good reasons for trying to outwit him in this way ? |
| 27 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |