Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 2 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 3 | Nor does it impress Freud to be told that religious propositions are ‘ as if ’ types of proposition , and that one should live ‘ as if ’ it were true that there were gods , or God , for there is nothing to lose this way . |
| 4 | Studies carried out in Hull , did nothing to confirm this prediction . |
| 5 | Do you want me to sew this back on for you babe ? |
| 6 | Doctors can ask us all sorts of intimate questions and expect honest answers ; in return , we expect them to treat this knowledge confidentially and not to gossip about the state of our health . |
| 7 | They wanted me to wear this wig , a gross , thick , nylon thing like something out of the Nolan sisters . |
| 8 | But if it was so easy for me to see this evidence and to talk to those who had substantial proof of their ownership of homes in mandate Palestine , surely it would be no more difficult to go to Israel , find those same homes and — the idea had a special excitement about it — to knock on those same front doors . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , you shall have it as you wish , though it goes against the grain with me to see this fellow go free . |
| 10 | ‘ You want me to see this guy , sir ? ’ |
| 11 | On the basis of our stated principles we can therefore say that unc and unc are both real properties of the proton B. However quantum mechanics does not permit them to enjoy this status simultaneously , since they correspond to operators which do not commute with each other ( p. 28 ) . |
| 12 | I sat down with LIFE and worked through their philosophy , erm in line with our own as it were , and they agreed , and I would ask them to agree this year that any paperwork or any leaflets they distribute make it very clear that a choice remains for a woman in terms of whether or not she should have an abortion , because LIFE is fairly , yes , Michael ? |
| 13 | The West 's manifest unwillingness to use force against the Bosnian Serbs to get them to accept this plan has contributed to the latest rejection that the plan has suffered , the resounding No delivered by more than nine out of ten Bosnian Serb voters in last weekend 's referendum . |
| 14 | ‘ Will you bring me to meet this man ? ’ he asked . |
| 15 | In retrospect , the greatest disservice Charles Howard ever did me was the way he had somehow made it impossible for me to trust this man . |
| 16 | When the Editor asked me to write this article I happily agreed . |
| 17 | After I got back to work I realised just how many people do n't give blood in the Institute ( which is what prompted me to write this article ) . |
| 18 | The experience of watching my late husband 's 16-year fight against the degenerative effects of Parkinson 's disease ( one of those conditions which might one day benefit from embryo research ) causes me to write this letter in the hope that all who take part in the debates will recognise and confound these tactics of the anti-abortion pressure groups , quite rightly described by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service as ‘ an attempt to hijack government legislation ’ . |
| 19 | I am afraid that , in your absence , a problem has arisen which makes it impossible for you and I to try this case together . |
| 20 | They 're looking for someone to play this sort of deformed hunchback , part werewolf , part vampire . |
| 21 | A mining bargain such as this might include the setting in of timbers though the mine might provide someone to do this work independently . |
| 22 | How was I to address this question — how could I , as a sociologist , come to a conclusion that anyone , whether an admirer or an opponent of the Unification Church , would have to agree was as objective and unbiased as possible ? |
| 23 | It is not dislike of homosexuals which has prompted me to tackle this subject . |
| 24 | Erm Hugh 's asked me to open this morning 's erm quality seminar . |
| 25 | Sister Susan McGuiness F.C.J. Sister Madeleine F.C.J. and Bishop Kevin O'Brien all helped me to answer this question . |
| 26 | If one may suspend conscience , and forget the conditions and costs of labour which allowed them to create this wealth , then these streets — as they do in London and Edinburgh , and still to be seen in Dublin — define the comfort of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century middle classes . |
| 27 | The banks of the Susquehannah lay out of reach as a setting in which to realize this vision ; the streams which flowed from the Quantock Hills passed through a landscape which had already begun to seem hardly less desirable . |
| 28 | Perusing my library shelves recently , in a largely fruitless search for scholarly references with which to stiffen this article , I came across some evidence supporting that contention . |
| 29 | ‘ I have six tournaments left in which to reach this goal . ’ |
| 30 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |