Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] this [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact we can tie up this lending for house purchase with the personal sector 's purchase of ‘ real ’ capital goods in column 8/line 3 . |
| 2 | If the Revenue is unwilling to publish an annual list , the only practicable alternative is to base the charge on the cost of the car , since it would be burdensome to expect employers to work out this information for themselves . |
| 3 | ‘ Good , now I just want you to save me and yourself a lot of trouble by filling in this form for the Red Cross . ’ |
| 4 | And the writer can only conjure up this gift for the reader if he/she is prepared , first of all , to write plainly what he/she believes to be true , rather than fall for the surface sweetmeats which seem to satisfy but which , like sugar , leave the reader hungry minutes later . |
| 5 | We got her to help by writing out this queschun for us . |
| 6 | The American administration turned down this offer for fear of weakening the case for constructing the new Diego Garcia base . |
| 7 | They can not keep up this luminosity for long , however , and they should have burnt out long ago . |
| 8 | For me , at least — and I think for most people who travel around this country for pleasure , that is , to see things — it is simply that one gets a greater depth of pleasure out of knowing the anatomy of a town and why it takes that particular form and not just its superficial features , however attractive they may be individually . |
| 9 | Er so as it happened this girl had got the material erm a wild silk cream and er Elizabeth made up this dress for her of course er Michael Caine 's daughter i is quite a busty girl , you know |
| 10 | Please try to fill in this form for all titles you are responsible for and use this as an exercise to test its viability before we have Phil do something more elegant . |
| 11 | They imported artists and artisans from Greece to carry out this work for them and to ornament their buildings ; they also imported actual sculpture from Greece for the same purpose . |
| 12 | You 've set up this meeting for me and I ca n't thank you enough . |
| 13 | I meant to phone up this morning for an appointment for Doctor , but I forgot all about it . |
| 14 | Ceausescu singled out this minority for especially severe treatment in order to emphasise his nationalist credentials . |
| 15 | Beside this , the very persistence of the term is itself worthy of interest and on academic , moral and political grounds any resolution of the uncertainty that surrounds the value of the concept of the inner city must surely start by taking on this vocabulary for what it is . |
| 16 | Her stepfather took over this task for her . |
| 17 | Experiences in a depersonalized family in childhood that subsequently bring about this readiness for schizoid withdrawal are re-awakened in a social situation that is depersonalizing . |
| 18 | They was heading off to London that night to go and pick up this griddle for this |
| 19 | I am pleased that the parents of pupils at those schools have voted to take up this option for their schools . |
| 20 | Road show schedules and lots more and granddad goodies as well if you phone up this show for any reason at all , as long as it 's a nice reason . |
| 21 | It set back this possibility for nearly a decade , until after the slump had sent unemployment to twice the ‘ unacceptable ’ level of 1923 and the pattern of politics had once again been changed . |
| 22 | Complete removal of weeds , including all the roots , is important , preferably by hand or while digging ; incidentally , do remember that some of them may be the very plants you are intending to grow , though if the area contains horsetail it is better not to try growing perennial plants in it until you have been clearing out this weed for some years . |