Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | Do you want me to sew this back on for you babe ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They wanted me to wear this wig , a gross , thick , nylon thing like something out of the Nolan sisters . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , you shall have it as you wish , though it goes against the grain with me to see this fellow go free . |
| 8 | ‘ You want me to see this guy , sir ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Will you bring me to meet this man ? ’ he asked . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When the Editor asked me to write this article I happily agreed . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | I am afraid that , in your absence , a problem has arisen which makes it impossible for you and I to try this case together . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | It is not dislike of homosexuals which has prompted me to tackle this subject . |
| 20 | Erm Hugh 's asked me to open this morning 's erm quality seminar . |
| 21 | Sister Susan McGuiness F.C.J. Sister Madeleine F.C.J. and Bishop Kevin O'Brien all helped me to answer this question . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Clearly , an LEA has an obligation in the words of a recent Audit Commission report ( Audit Commission 1989a ) to ‘ articulate a vision of what the education service is trying to achieve ’ and to ‘ support schools and help them to fulfil this vision ’ , but it could be argued that the most appropriate focus for such a vision , necessarily generalized because of the range of institutional contexts and pupil needs involved , should be on identifying broad goals and the kinds of learning which schools might seek to promote . |
| 24 | ( Business Telegraph , August 24 ) prompts me to pen this letter . |
| 25 | ‘ Whatever pleasure it gives you can not match the pleasure it gave me to buy this trinket for you . ’ |
| 26 | Thank you Betty for helping me to win this award . |
| 27 | the employer tendency to favour the industry-type of bargaining was reinforced by the broad socialist , class consciousness of major European unions which probably led them to favour this approach , since it would engage ‘ employers through mass class action ’ , and also extend protection to a larger part of the workforce . |
| 28 | While our sports leaders recognise the contribution they can make to providing a ‘ healthy outlet ’ , they are concerned that , although government looks to them to play this role , it is often not prepared to assist them . |
| 29 | I want you to estimate this figure for each individual junction . |
| 30 | He had always been involved to some extent , but when an old villager came to him and said , ‘ You ca n't let this thing die , your father was a polemaster and we look to you to see this thing does n't stop ’ , he could n't resist the challenge . |