Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [conj] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was happening to them that this awareness had reached such a pitch in so short a time ? |
| 2 | Alice had stopped to listen to them because this man , this kind-faced fair one , was quite a good performer . |
| 3 | Er at the moment there are no savings identified and it seems to me that this Committee needs to deal with the budget as it finds . |
| 4 | It is a source of some regret to me that this column will not be here to report the changes . |
| 5 | It seems to me that this way of looking at things is the only one which allows us to understand the validity of the second law , and the heat death of each individual world , without invoking a unidimensional change of the entire universe from a definite initial state to a final state . ’ |
| 6 | It seems to me that this explosion of energy has been drained of its radical potential , diverted into areas of service provision which should be the State 's concern . |
| 7 | It seems to me that this case does not even touch that important question . ’ |
| 8 | Recalling what I had glimpsed of his relationships with both Henry Clerval and Elizabeth , it occurred to me that this conflict probably characterized all his friendships . |
| 9 | It seems to me that this passage describes the way loving relationships turn out to be for Hegel . |
| 10 | Moreover she breathed out power also ; one felt it in the air as one feels a thunderstorm before it breaks , and it seemed to me that this power was not quite human , that it drew its strength from afar and dwelt a stranger to the earth . |
| 11 | And it seems to me that this Policy E two is not in line with with strategic guidance and if you 're not if you 're having that are there some special circumstances that mean that you have to explain particularly what it is that you you have to do . |
| 12 | It seems to me that this difference in the structure of the schedules goes a long way towards explaining in industrial terms the relative stasis of British television subgenres like sitcom , crime series and soap opera , and the drive towards innovation found in the corresponding genres on US television . |
| 13 | ‘ It seems to me that this practice will only pay its way because of what they now call ‘ companion animals ’ . |
| 14 | Some of my colleagues have suggested to me that this account of the survival value of the god meme begs the question . |
| 15 | ‘ Ordinarily , it would seem to me that this object is most likely to be achieved by employing a single well-qualified firm , which would itself deploy staff so as to achieve the optimum blend of continuity and freshness . |
| 16 | ‘ Looking back now to the time when the site for these premises was chosen , and realising the state of affairs existing in this type of works , it is surprising to me that this process was ever permitted on this site at all ( being figuratively speaking within arms length of the dwellings ) . |
| 17 | These dreams are realer to me than this house . |
| 18 | ‘ In answer to your question , ’ she went on firmly , ‘ it 's important to me because this club means a great deal more to my father than you could possibly understand — maybe even more than he understands . |
| 19 | Write to me when this thing is over . |
| 20 | I put it to you that this proposal has to be considered , any new settlement proposal has to be considered within the light of a post two thousand and six strategy , in that light this new settlement proposal will not , at around fourteen hundred , satisfy the situation . |
| 21 | I now want to prove to you that this kind of evolution I 've been talking about , evolution by natural selection , at the level of individual genes , can not produce social cooperation . |
| 22 | He appears before the court for the first time , he 's of previous good character and erm and er has never been in trouble with the courts before and er Madam I 'm going to suggest to you that this incident was brought about not by any fault of his own , but , but by his girlfriend and her behaviour towards him . |
| 23 | ‘ Has it occurred to you that this Morris fellow and my brother were in this thing together ? ’ he said softly . |
| 24 | There is neither Jewish nor Gentile bias in this chronicler of the Holy Spirit 's initiative in mission throughout the world , though his application of the famous ‘ blinding ’ passage of Isaiah 6 to Jewish leaders who refused to receive their Messiah , and his assertion , ‘ Be it known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the gentiles : they will listen ’ ( 28:25–28 ) , is suggestive of the direction in which the Christian mission would , for the most part , go . |
| 25 | ( 3 ) A proportionate part of any advance payment will be refunded to you if this tenancy is determined before the expiry of the period which such payment is intended to cover . |
| 26 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 27 | It also occurred to him that this precaution eliminated the likelihood of ever finding a witness who had seen Sandy arriving in her Jaguar at the bell tower close to dawn . |
| 28 | In Ego Dormio he explains to the Sister that as she grows in her love of Christ , she will find nothing matters to her but this love and the sin of man which disfigures it , and that all this is focused by thinking on the Passion of Christ : Although in The Form he makes it clear to Margaret that it is difficult to be too prescriptive about meditation , since God will put the kind of thoughts into her heart that are right for her , he does say in Emendatio Vitae that beginners in spiritual life may find the words of others helpful ( 8.120.31 – 2 ) and on occasions he himself wrote meditations on the Passion which embody his understanding of the catalysis they are designed to help . |
| 29 | She was going to say ‘ industry ’ , but it occurred to her that this admission would come oddly from an expert on the Industrial Novel . |
| 30 | Another face presented itself to her and this time she remembered it . |