Example sentences of "[prep] this [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It may seem odd to fret about this while economies are still sluggish , but in past recoveries governments have often kept their foot on the accelerator too long . |
2 | Ev well I do n't know about this year mind but every Christmas I worked there she never paid us double time for anything over Christmas , she was always bought us a present . |
3 | ‘ Did she make any comment about this man Eddie ? ’ |
4 | In truth , the most impressive thing about this performance car is the way it enhances the performance of its driver . |
5 | The great thing about this holiday club is if all you want to do is laze about in the sun , they 'll let you . |
6 | Perhaps the most interesting thing about this video tape is the involvement of loony er , who 's espoused every cause known to human kind . |
7 | Well , what I think I shall do now is I think I should take this a little further about this union business , I think I should get in touch with Dave , the Editor of the T U C to find out what the exact position of these , this so called union is because it does n't sound like a union to me , it sounds , it sounds like an . |
8 | I feel uneasy about this guillotine motion . |
9 | THE DAY A YOUNG STEPHEN Street gave up his place in the school football team for a job on a record stall in London 's Walthamstow Market , friends and family knew he was serious about this music lark . |
10 | Interestingly , when Laura was told about this incident years later by a researcher preparing an internal history of the company , she could not accept it . |
11 | All of a sudden this erm worry about this budget heading , is being swept under the carpets and everybody being told is all in been er cleared up . |
12 | You know , I I I 'm I 'm unhappy about this memoir business . |
13 | ‘ I 'm dubious about this Mafia story . |
14 | erm the thing about this title portrait which I always er like to emphasize and is that when you 're using props like these stools or any other props at all in this sort of glamour photography then they must be in absolutely pristine condition , and they are here . |
15 | The only thing certain about this opening confrontation is that Talbot and Nutt will be most unlikely to lift two counts of seven against the NIBA champions , as they did in their final game in the PGL against the Murdocks from Ulster Transport at Willowfield . |
16 | I shall be on leave in the week before Easter , but if you have any queries about this request Barbara Hegarty will do her best to help . |
17 | ‘ Now then , Harry , m'boy — let's hear about this stud farm you 're running . |
18 | I 'm sorry to say but I think that we 're talking about this education day at the beginning of October and I mean god knows we 've known this is coming for , it 's almost as if we 've got to the brink of , you know like lemmings just about to throw ourselves off the cliff and we do n't know why we 're going to do it . |
19 | They keep telling us about this poll tax , they 've got to cut the staff and then they decide that they 're going to give this man this money . |
20 | In such a well studied and carefully recorded area , is there anything new that can be said about this Bronze Age landscape ? |
21 | Now , do you want to go and see the specialist about this drink problem , David ? |
22 | This is one reason why its taken me so long to find out about this mailing list . |
23 | She cared a lot and she did things to help , practical things like buying Blazer and writing to MPs and others about this animal transport business . ’ |
24 | On the same day , the eighteenth of October , Mr came back and spoke to Miss about this telephone call and he rang Peter in the afternoon of that Friday and he asked again if it was possible to withdraw because of the landlord 's failure to consent to the er assignment and again er after what will er be described as a fairly easy discussion between the plaintiff and er Mr , er he was told very clearly that it was not possible for him to withdraw , contracts had been exchanged and he was advised that what the landlords er failure to consent did was in fact er provide Mr with more breathing space in order to obtain proper funding and re-arrange his finances er , that again is denied . |
25 | At the same time , he found to his astonishment that his feelings about this late-night call — this unequivocal late-night call — were mixed . |
26 | There are several unusual things about this libel trial . |
27 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
28 | He never writes a memo saying you know we are supporting or attacking this government as about this election campaign , never , but journalists know what his view is and they write in a code with that view and if they did n't they would quickly find out where they should be and it would not be working for one of those newspapers and the thing that 's quite perverse about it is the . |
29 | At the bottom of the page I had suggested how you should go about this exercise throw paper around the floor , that 's all the paper there is here , so . |
30 | Can you ask about this swim ring , did you bring your wallet ? |