Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [pron] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of using them in this situation is their low cost and the speed with which the wall can be built up . |
| 2 | I had no previous experience of building anything like this , but by studying the old sheds and some leaflets from a company that made stables , I 'd knocked up a working drawing . |
| 3 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 5 | Erm , yeah Mrs she sort of has the power over level erm if she she sort of , it 's like she 's sort of keeping her on this level in the same household as her |
| 6 | Many hon. Members believe that the Secretary of State should immediately instruct the Director General of Fair Trading to review the position urgently and in detail , so that we can discover whether there is still some possibility of saving something from this awful mess . |
| 7 | ‘ Nahum Plunkett coming here to see Anna is probably the only chance anyone has of pulling her through this crisis , you know that really , do n't you , Seb ? ’ |
| 8 | It also provides the context in which to consider both the claim that for the later Foucault knowledge is absolutely determined , leaving him in the impossible situation of requiring something outside this for any prospect of critique , as well as the question of exactly how power and resistance are interdependent and to what extent they are separable . |
| 9 | We would never dream of beginning anything of this kind without gaining the views of local residents . |
| 10 | While Brunner naturally had not the remotest intention of supporting anything of this kind , his concern for his own kind of natural theology seemed to Barth to be wholly without adequate defences against it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 13 | ‘ Other accountants should n't dismiss the idea of doing something like this , ’ she adds . |
| 14 | ‘ They are both gentle and kind , and are not capable of doing something like this , let alone covering it up with such success . |
| 15 | There were a lot a lot involved there er and some of you actually found that that there was quite a lot that you really had to almost worry about and think about and and er yesterday for the first time of doing it with this this new method it does take quite a bit of thinking about and as we agreed practice is is what 's what 's important .. |
| 16 | We could n't argue , for Thistle 's chance of taking anything from this game lasted all of 58 seconds . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It should soon develop a habit of relieving itself in this way when it finds an appropriate spot at the start of its walk . |