Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from a few straightforward effects ( slow motion , freeze frame ) , art movies tend to fall outside this area , because by and large SFX are expensive and time-consuming , whereas art movies of limited appeal tend to be made on relatively low budgets . |
| 2 | The people had never heard preaching like this before , and so they embraced the teaching before they had time to become used to it and ‘ Gospel-hardened ’ as had happened to the people of Bridgnorth . |
| 3 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 4 | We can not abandon people to the horrors of primitive siege warfare , so the ramshackle institutions of the United Nations will have to be drastically overhauled to cope with this crisis and others like it which are festering in an increasingly unstable world . |
| 5 | Some people will want to quarrel with this analysis ; but for our present purposes its accuracy is less important than the use Miller makes of it . |
| 6 | Mr Mowatt agreed to proceed with this . |
| 7 | Why would she want to go with this man ? |
| 8 | Did you want to go on this side ? |
| 9 | On page 12 Whit Deschner explains why you would not want to go to this prime honeypot river . |
| 10 | ‘ Do we really want to go to this bash ? ’ |
| 11 | Do I want to go to this wonderful balloon festival ? |
| 12 | Craigendarroch 's information pack — which can be found in your room — is a mine of information on the many activities and placed to see in this fascinatingly diverse area . |
| 13 | I was out and under the bonnet when I got stopped by this policeman . |
| 14 | Then , as the weeks went by , I got filled with this sense of pride . |
| 15 | I hate driving round this with the rack on I absolutely hate it if it 's windy it 's awful . |
| 16 | As children we tend to work on this and practise asking for what we want at every available opportunity . |
| 17 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 18 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 19 | So er I , I b basically go to the office one day a week , that 's my admin day , and the rest , I , I tend to work within this area . |
| 20 | Why do you want to work with this company ? |
| 21 | Radiating out from the speaker are a number of concentric circles distinguishing different zones of spatial proximity ; through the speaker passes a " tame line " , on which events prior to his present utt rance , and events prior to those , can be linearly arranged , and similarly events at points and spans in the future ; while the discourse to which the speaker contributes unfolds along this same time line . |
| 22 | She was still struggling to adjust to this love , this , the biggest happening of her life . |
| 23 | How nice it would be , he thought , to sit collapsed like this forever . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , those four hundred thousand Palestinians lost everything in Kuwait , and erm it 'll be important to know that for each Palestinian in Kuwait there 's at least two or three other Palestinians whom they support outside Kuwait , in other words in Jordan , West Bank and the Gaza strip , so totally the Palestinians who got devastated by this invasion is about one point two million Palestinians . |
| 25 | By a different route , New Zealand and Newfoundland were similarly placed and , as we have seen , in 1922 the Irish Free State became added to this list . |
| 26 | An independent Central Bank might provide such a restraint , and so might the constitutional amendment , suggested in Friedman and Friedman ( 1980 ) , which obliges the government to expand the money stock at some fixed rate and which would make cheating on this obligation illegal . |
| 27 | ‘ Having regard to the terms of the contract , the conduct of the parties and the circumstances of the case , I have no doubt that the property was not intended to pass in this case on contract but only in exchange for a valid building society cheque , but even if it may be regarded as intended to pass in exchange for a false , but believed genuine , building society cheque it will not in my view avail the insurers . ’ |
| 28 | However , if you intend to work at this ‘ subtle ’ level all the time , it may be helpful to learn one or two ‘ psychic protection ’ techniques ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 29 | As one would except , pre-existing material got sucked into this new world . |
| 30 | ‘ If needs be , and I hate to stoop to this , I can take steps to override your obstruction , from which you might find it difficult to recover ! ’ |