Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] in this " in BNC.

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1 Two of these are worthy of a wider audience and thus I make no apology for including them in this month 's Surgery !
2 The advantage of using them in this situation is their low cost and the speed with which the wall can be built up .
3 But dumb animals are incapable of considering themselves in this light ; which is not to imply that human beings always do , only that they can normally be expected to if required .
4 It was the strain — deep down she knew — the strain of finding herself in this diabolical situation , the strain of being alone here , like this , with his contempt and superiority , struggling constantly against the physical awareness of him , the electricity that his presence produced .
5 It should soon develop a habit of relieving itself in this way when it finds an appropriate spot at the start of its walk .
6 Curse me for having nothing in this world to give him but gratitude ! ’
7 However , people 's capacity for perceiving themselves in this way is not innate ; it is acquired within a framework of established social practices which impose on them the role ( forme ) of a subject .
8 In many respects deconstruction has not been avidly employed in analysing Renaissance texts and there is a certain contradiction in employing it in this study .
9 Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ .
10 She gets a certain amount of amusement from describing herself in this way , but the verbal presentation of self has a serious purpose :
11 The law is therefore most unfair to victims of negligence ; in limiting them in this way it totally ignores the reality of the situation .
12 Garfinkel 's interest is not in whether they are right or wrong in perceiving it in this way , but rather in how they come to perceive it in this way , and what effect this perception has on their actions .
13 There is no point in involving me in this regrettable matter . ’
14 She was not altogether surprised by her father-in-law 's absence , because right from the start he had taken particular pleasure in taunting her in this way .
15 I am not sure that the hon. Member for Leicester , East ( Mr. Vaz ) renders Mr. Hall 's case particular assistance in raising it in this fashion .
16 ‘ Why do you insist on seeing me in this horrible way ? ’ she finished up .
17 If this was really the case then surely those Conservatives given to disguising themselves in this manner could have saved their party a lot of grief by letting the opponents of their ‘ professed stance ’ into the secret of their ‘ true intention ’ .
18 She would never forgive fitzAlan for putting her in this position , she promised herself .
19 Abruptly she looked away , hating him , hating herself , hating everyone for putting her in this horribly vulnerable position .
20 Sometimes I so hated JTR for putting me in this position .
21 ‘ They deserve a chance and I had no qualms about putting them in this quality field .
22 However , the main reason for mentioning it in this methodological discussion is to show how subtle and fine-grained our analysis must be if we are to give an adequate account of the function of language variation in close-tie communities .
23 On the contrary , by correcting himself in this way the author is making a particular point : that although the occasion might have been regarded as a performance by some , that although it might have in time become a performance , this description is not an accurate representation of the narrator 's memories .
24 It is because grammar has the effect of refining the relatively raw conceptual material of lexis by systematizing it in this way that it is considered as the primary determinant .
25 If it 's to be helpful if if Mr is saying on behalf of the Parish Council that by showing it in this way on the key diagram , he feels is prejudicing or the Parish Council 's position is prejudiced at some future date , then it 's to be helpful to that that the County Council is saying it is prepared to show it simply as a an arrow and similarly for consistency it would seem to make sense to show the western in the same fashion .
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