Example sentences of "[prep] this [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you joke about this I 'll put a rope round your neck . ’ |
| 2 | If Amanda Pennington ever heard about this he would die of shame . |
| 3 | If you think about this you can think of a kite as two isosceles triangles glued together . |
| 4 | Well Jennifer I think it 's er viburnum lanterna and it 's quite an interesting er bush because it was in the sixteenth century a er gave the tree its poetic name as he frequently come across it in old drove roads er over and across the old drove roads in the chalk downs of er from Winchester to Epsom and London but sorry about this it can grow to fifteen feet and in May it opens up its cluster of white flowers and it 's really quite an attractive thing but the berries I do n't think are so attractive so I think erm |
| 5 | The Council may also try to draw up a science policy for Europe , if it is serious about this it will have to soil its hands a little more with the sharp end of applied research . |
| 6 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 7 | A book with a title such as this one could have concentrated on narrative and analysis of the political , military , and diplomatic aspects of the Hundred Years War . |
| 8 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 9 | For this they would receive $315,000 . |
| 10 | For this they would require the written permission of the owners , and a police permit . |
| 11 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 12 | For this they could blame their own indiscipline as much as Llanelli 's eagerness to take advantage of it . |
| 13 | It is an elegant structure of the local grey sandstone , with a balustrade and cornice , and was one of the works of the canal 's engineer John Rennie , one of the great exponents of stone bridges , though much of the credit for this one must go to the architect , Alexander Stevens . |
| 14 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |
| 15 | And for this we would use Two Face Commit technology . |
| 16 | And for this we would use object based technology , object oriented technology to enable us to have this business processes modelled inside the desktop . |
| 17 | Yeah , we wo n't charge you a pound for this we 'll charge you nineteen and eleven |
| 18 | For this we can turn to social theories . |
| 19 | It will often be necessary to use symbols to represent tones , and for this we will use marks placed before the syllable in the following way ( phonemic transcription will not be used in these examples — words are given in spelling ) : |
| 20 | For this we must rely to a great extent upon Soviet goodwill and if we make difficulty over returning their own nationals it will react adversely upon their willingness to help in restoring to us as soon as possible our own prisoners . " |
| 21 | And for this he would require authorization from Gen McCreery at Eighth Army , to override the previous instruction from Gen Clark on 7 May that " German forces … facing TITO forces must surrender to TITO " . |
| 22 | Too bad the horrendous loading system leaves a nasty taste in the mouth — had it not been for this I 'd have cheerfully awarded around 85% ( disk owners take note ) . |
| 23 | I reckon just for this it 'll cost you about eighteen quid . |
| 24 | And for this you may thank the current recession . |
| 25 | If there is not room for this you might utilize the space by making slots in the counter top to take your cooking knives , or you could suspend them from a magnetic bar just above out of reach of children . |
| 26 | For this you will need a tone correction unit of a kind which can be plugged into the appropriate points on the cable connections . |
| 27 | For this you will need both a plain writing nozzle and a basket-weave nozzle . |
| 28 | For this you will have to rely on friends , neighbours , or relatives , or ring the Volunteer Co-ordinator at your local Council of Voluntary Service and ask him or her whether there is someone who can shop and clean for you while you are ill . |
| 29 | Erm and through this we can see where the different variations come in the system and introduce one or two other ones . |
| 30 | As you play through this you should notice how the D note is held on top of the first three chords , and also the subtle rhythmic variations which occur on the F chords in bars 3 and 4 … |