Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incensed by such treatment , the hare scratched the Moon 's face with his claws and the two of them are disfigured to this day . |
| 2 | Quite rightly , they place much emphasis on the importance of introducing genuine market relations in Yugoslavia ; and increasing numbers of them are including in this the right to establish competing private enterprises and self-managed enterprises in which the workers own shares . |
| 3 | These simple propositions are truisms , but their importance and the dangers of departing from them are highlighted by this appeal , which we allowed on 13 March 1992 . |
| 4 | At the east end , the springmakers work , and the machines required by them are installed in this part , together with an electric welding machine and various bolt and nut machines ; boiler-makers work on the south and west sides , and the forging presses are also laid down here while the north side is mainly occupied by drop hammers . |
| 5 | Gale said : ‘ I am gutted over this . |
| 6 | And so I am pasted to this leaning morass , observing the simplest of equations . |
| 7 | These Societies were in opposition to the differentiation and autonomization model of modernity that I am using in this paper . |
| 8 | As a mother I am looking at this girl . |
| 9 | I am fortified in this view by consideration of what could result if the local authority were right . |
| 10 | " I am referring to this . " |
| 11 | If I am writing on this side of the paper I can not at the same moment be writing on the other side . |
| 12 | Another is why I am writing in this composition book . |
| 13 | Although I am questioned on this in moments of crisis , I firmly believe it to be true . |
| 14 | I should like to make it clear from the outset that I am participating in this conference not as an expert on any aspect of the teaching of languages , but rather as someone whose primary concern is with the structure of language and , more generally , the nature of cognitive processes . |
| 15 | Nadia : I am from the General Union of Palestinian Women and it 's good that I am participating in this meeting at this time because I am having major problems with the British Feminist Movement and the Western feminist line . |
| 16 | ‘ Say , ’ he said , ‘ you 'd better tell me more precisely about what I am to wear to this ball . |
| 17 | Time buckles and I am skewered to this one moment . |
| 18 | A first time garden is usually small and certainly the typical one I am imagining for this series is no more than 40ft x 20ft and surrounded on all sides by other houses . |
| 19 | But the case is different of course in modes of language use which are non-reciprocal , of which what I am doing at this moment is an obvious example . |
| 20 | A paying consumer at least feels he or she can say , ‘ I am paying for this service . |
| 21 | For instance , when I am sitting on this chair , how do you want me to appear ? etc. , etc . ’ |
| 22 | It will be so long as I am sitting in this office . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If I am to help on this , then I should know what 's going on . |
| 24 | we know the truth ‘ I am acquainted with this sense-datum ’ . |
| 25 | The Department of Transport 's reply to my letter ( 12 March ) seems to have missed the general point I am making from this specific case , namely that travellers normally choose their mode of transport on the basis of perceived marginal costs ( ie the cost of petrol ) and conclude that it is a lot cheaper to use a car if you already have one . |
| 26 | I am dying to that old life , to that old self and I am following in this new life , and therefore , I am going through this , this symbolic act of being baptized , of dying to the old and being raised a new life in Jesus Christ . |
| 27 | Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will contrive to listen to what I am saying on this complicated matter . |
| 28 | I am committed to this enterprise : To climb the mountain , to cut down the cedar , and leave behind me an enduring name . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And I am put in this ward under observation because I am suspected of having heart murmurs and also I am having surgery on my face . |
| 30 | I am dying to that old life , to that old self and I am following in this new life , and therefore , I am going through this , this symbolic act of being baptized , of dying to the old and being raised a new life in Jesus Christ . |