Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank You for bringing to this country men who are good listeners , who hear Your instructions and obey . ’ |
| 2 | But he showed much improved form when stepped up to a mile and three quarters , and is definitely worth opposing over this trip at such a short price . |
| 3 | That gave him dibs on the scav , not that there would be much worth looting in this sandhole . |
| 4 | These teachings clearly influenced the early books of The Prelude , and it is worth digressing at this point to see how Wordsworth amended and yet clung to the spirit of Rousseau 's ideals . |
| 5 | He thought that he learnt a lot about preaching from this experience . |
| 6 | As an observation it seems sufficiently true , on the basis of simple observation of everyday life , to be worth accepting at this point in the theory , although it is a crucial proposition . |
| 7 | Liphook scouts have a reputation for competing in this gruelling international race which not only tests canoeing skills , but also endurance . |
| 8 | However , whilst both the HPV16 sequence and the HSV octamer could readily compete for binding of this protein , the HPV6 sequence could not do so confirming that it does not bind the cervical protein with high affinity ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 9 | There are some points worth noticing about this scheme . |
| 10 | The secondary resource should provide a means or a vehicle for driving through this pain barrier experienced by many children , but apparently not recognised by many teachers . |
| 11 | It is worth persevering with this very good posture habit . |
| 12 | Responsibility for disposing of this fleet , which Boeing employees had nicknamed ‘ The Aluminium Cloud ’ , had fallen to one of the company 's most experienced salesmen , R.Q Wilson — a tall , cadaverous man whose Brooks Brothers suits , and the ostentatious flashes of gold at his wrist , cuff and spectacle-rims actually belied a distinctly English politesse and gentility . |
| 13 | ‘ How about stayin' outside this afternoon ? ’ suggested Tom suddenly . |
| 14 | Now you think about walking round this . |
| 15 | Few had considered this and a number who had previously chosen evenings changed their answers after reflecting on this follow-up question . |
| 16 | After allowing for this subsidence there are no significant residual gravity changes between June 1991 and June 1992 , except at the summit crater where there was a decrease of 80μGal . |
| 17 | About a month after returning from this trip , she suddenly developed full-blown rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 18 | However , a Belgian study in which cuff width and arm circumference were taken into account revealed that even after correcting for this relationship , weight appeared correlated to blood pressure ( Demanet et al , 1976 ) . |
| 19 | After correcting for this imbalance by the direct standardisation method , the recurrence rate in the ursodeoxycholic acid treated patients ( 15% ) was only half that seen in the other two groups ( 30% ) although this difference still failed to reach statistical significance . |
| 20 | After living through this event , with its profoundly shattering consequences to Europe , Freud becomes more concerned with the idea of there being a basic mutual hostility between human beings . |
| 21 | After listening to this it 's obvious there 's still hope . |
| 22 | I hope , after listening to this set of examples , I have not replaced one stereotype with another . |
| 23 | a customer comes in and he was my wife I did n't have er beard then I was clean-shaven , because after coming to this country when I could n't get a job , I thought that this might be a bar so , which was n't right , but we did it . |
| 24 | After reading about this incident in my book the headteacher involved wrote to me saying he felt that teachers do perhaps shout too much but that the issue for him was that the student was a ‘ guest ’ in the school which in turn was a family . |
| 25 | And after sitting through this challenging , exhilarating 160-minute movie you 'll scratch your head in genuine wonderment as to what these people found so upsetting . |
| 26 | After posing for this snapshot , Arsenio gave him the brush off . |
| 27 | After playing through this you then start to apply the formulae . |
| 28 | IN 1990 , 87,555 women married between the ages of 20 and 24 , and 71,489 — or 81.6 per cent — divorced after marrying at this age . |
| 29 | After thinking about this for a few minutes , he said , ‘ No ; it must be imagination . ’ |
| 30 | Even after leaving behind this ‘ animism ’ , it is still by their relative resistance or permeability to insight through simulation that in relating things to each other we relate them also to ourselves as inanimate , vegetable , animal , human . |