Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The body does become less efficient as we grow older , and it 's a comfort to have someone by our side who recognises this . |
| 2 | Indeed , it seems that a hearer who interpreted this utterance as conveying a specific proposition or set of propositions would miss out on much of its intended relevance . |
| 3 | And then of course he gives classical precedence for this Tireseus , Orpheus , those poets who had magical powers , Homer , who suggests not only frugal diet , but chastity will be the best preparation for the poet who has this task in hand . |
| 4 | I seem to recall being the culprit who caused this trouble . ’ |
| 5 | This is the president who has this wonderful rhetoric about states and federalism and , you know , the rights of states , but he was , he himself was not afraid to use the power of the federal government to try and lever the states into line and it worked , you know , we 're talking serious money here . |
| 6 | ‘ Father of the missing girl over there , talking to the good lady who runs this establishment and who has already seen the body . |
| 7 | It is not only the child of a broken marriage who feels this , but even when , sadly , one parent has died or spent a considerable amount of time in hospital . |
| 8 | The layman who reads this document is left with little or no idea of what he is undertaking . |
| 9 | But — other than if one is a Christian theologian of a rather fundamentalist variety who believes this text to be the inspired word of God — why should one be struggling with it ? |
| 10 | ‘ And of course , the man who knows most about it , the scientist who designed this project , set it up , launched it on an unknowing world . |
| 11 | In fact , there was much sympathy expressed for the Führer who had this to suffer on top of all his other worries . |
| 12 | ‘ The clerk who drew this up added a note . |
| 13 | The writer who adapted this H.E.Bates piece clearly understood that viewers want to feel cosy , and programmes such as this have a feel-good factor . |
| 14 | Thus while generally speaking all terms listed can be presumed to be unfair , this presumption may be contested by a seller who uses this type of term in specific situations . |
| 15 | But no matter — this has no real bearing on the development , but may be of some interest to those in the community who see this as just another get-rich-quick venture by the men from the city . |
| 16 | ‘ The chairman has received many letters , as have I , from MPs and people in the local community who see this as the first need for the force . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The chairman has received many letters , as have I , from MPs and people in the local community who see this as the first need for the force . ’ |
| 18 | Le Grand ( 1982 ) is one author who documents this view of the effects of UK public expenditure . |
| 19 | The group who produced this version attempted to create a balance between , on the one hand , the central action of the shooting , and , on the other , the more 'static " descriptions of the rain , the hospital and the courtyard . |
| 20 | Exploitation for Marx is the process by which a group of people are deprived of the full value of their labour so that what they have lost becomes a surplus for another group who obtain this element . |
| 21 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 22 | The jongleur who reported this had no fears that his audience would misunderstand him . |
| 23 | Emily Davies was one of the few to argue that housekeeping took up little time and that women could in fact combine work and marriage , and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson belonged to an even more select band who put this advice into practice . |
| 24 | The teacher who uses this aid will have to be particularly careful to keep it secret and so not publish any libel to anyone at all . |
| 25 | Erm interestingly enough there 's a report that Kinsey as a young man at college erm was approached by a friend who had this this terrible personal problem and er confessed to Kinsey that he kept feeling tempted to masturbate and he was very disturbed by this er so Kinsey and he prayed together that they would er together have the strength to give up masturbation . |
| 26 | Again , it was mainly older people and those who were not using credit who said this . |
| 27 | The head who described this process pointed to two matters of importance : " I wanted a systematic curriculum with the sharing of opportunities fully understood by parents and staff , and with the pastoral organization of the school running smoothly alongside the curriculum scheme . " |
| 28 | The archer who holds this distinction is Michael Leach , who was only twelve years old at the time . |
| 29 | We believe in a God who made this world and all in it as something beautiful to behold . |
| 30 | The pragmatist who makes this argument tries to build political responsibility out of ordinary , nonpolitical principles of morality . |