Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [verb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his preface to the catalogue , Apollinaire wrote : ‘ The new painters who made manifest this year , at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants of Paris , their artistic ideals , accept the name of Cubists which has been given to them . |
| 2 | The worker who has lost this belief will convey this attitude to the parents , and partnership will collapse . |
| 3 | With a lieutenant ( who has gained this position by being the first archer to hit the red ) to assist him and the clerk to the captains to advise , he has to arrange and run the next shoot . |
| 4 | As Horton Davies , who has explored this subject deeply , wrote : ‘ More worshipful churches proved incentives to , if not a deeper , yet a better ordered and more dignified worship among congregations that had previously regarded worship as merely a preliminary to preaching . ’ |
| 5 | Everyone , without exception , who has seen this guitar has commented on its appearance in not particularly glowing terms . |
| 6 | Please raise your glass and drink a toast to Alan who has organized this party for me . |
| 7 | Norma Heyman , the English producer who has nurtured this project every day of its labyrinthine two and a half years , phones me with a report . |
| 8 | I never disagree lightly with Elias Bickerman who has defended this tradition , already current in the second century B.C. — only one century after the alleged event . |
| 9 | ‘ Who has done this thing ? ’ he hissed . |
| 10 | Edward 's son Robert , who has loaned this picture , remembers that drinking , smoking and gambling in his father 's house were all taboo . |
| 11 | Kelly , who has won this race three times , said : ‘ It has been a very long and hard season for me , and I feel very tired . |
| 12 | A lifelong Conservative who has always been politically active , and who has fought this seat in the last two local elections , Margaret lives in Headington Ward , and understands , and cares about the local issues . |
| 13 | He addresses God as the God of Abraham and Isaac , the God who has commanded this return to the Land , and who has assured him with the words , ‘ I will do you good . ’ |
| 14 | Though politicians often claim that the authority the law claims for itself is justified , there has hardly been any political theorist in recent times who has shared this view . |
| 15 | THERE ARE SO many people who helped to make this time special that I am sorry not to be able to mention them all by name . |
| 16 | Before I hand over to Dave to tell his side of the story , I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dave , Richard , Liz and all the JM staff at sites around the country who helped to organise this event which has raised so much for our Charity of the Year . |
| 17 | I 'm good at my job and anybody who wants to run this place would have to recognise the fact . |
| 18 | Although the pejorative term ‘ correlational sociolinguistics ’ is sometimes used by non-practitioners of the subject who appear to make this assumption , Labov himself has expressed the fear that his methods might give rise to a flood of replicated ‘ correlatory ’ studies of little theoretical value . |
| 19 | For those students who expect to graduate this year , the prospects for employment seem no better than last , with around 12 per cent of last year 's crop still without jobs nine months after graduating . |
| 20 | There is little evidence to support the effectiveness of either acupuncture or hypnosis as a means of eliminating smoking behaviour but such methods may suit some smokers who want to try this form of treatment [ 6 ] . |
| 21 | Those who seek to interpret this increase as a reflection of rapid social change which led to increased lawlessness must still consider the changes in administrative arrangements and popular attitudes which may have distorted the relationship between the reported and ‘ real ’ rates of crime . |
| 22 | and then for there 's this thing treating people who 'd ruined this guy 's marriage |
| 23 | Many people have seen Charlotte waiting for Albert , or her ghost who refuses to leave this station . |
| 24 | As for the rest of the staff , I will miss each one of the people who served to get this magazine on its feet . |
| 25 | It 's inserted into the poem in two ways : first the devils are identified with the pagan gods — they are introduced , indeed , with a great fanfare in the first book and given all sorts of classical erm and oriental names , and Milton explains to us that of course it was the devils themselves who managed to disperse this tradition that that 's who they really were ; and second , and though less central and less impressive in its poetic results , is perhaps the second device which is more interesting when we think of the poem in terms of Milton 's personal involvement . |
| 26 | Lord Mayor , I would be the last person to criticise either Councillors or offices who attempt to represent this district on foreign shores , whenever and wherever such trips are perfectly legitimate . |
| 27 | Karl Marx was not the only economist who died holding this belief . |
| 28 | The first firms , such as Boyden and Handy , who emerged to accommodate this demand did not appear overnight . |
| 29 | In performance , the first two are prone to bouts of noisy , head-splitting virtuosity , and Third mercilessly shows up those who fail to integrate this volatility into music of a more obviously poetic nature , and the Fourth is one of those elusive late pieces , whose rarefied world is closed to all but the most sensitive of artists . |
| 30 | If you do not have DC Operations privilege , you should use option 2.5.0 — Change Ownership Of DC , to pass the DC to a user who does have this privilege . |