Example sentences of "this [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can do this off the machine if your stitches are long enough . |
| 2 | Wait a minute now , we 'll just wipe that on this off the table so it does n't go on your sleeve . |
| 3 | For whatever reason , I seem to be able to persuade big names to be on my show , so if we get this off the ground I 'll aim to start with the true superstars . |
| 4 | Efforts have been made for some time to get this off the ground and a successful public meeting was held at Newtown at the end of April . |
| 5 | This for the majority . |
| 6 | Gladstone is now one of 12 Supreme Champions which 'll be judged later this for the title of best pig in Britain . |
| 7 | The Met Office is in this for the money , which is understandable . |
| 8 | Commenting on the compensation award , Mrs Taylor said : ‘ I was not doing this for the money . |
| 9 | I have been preparing myself for this for the whole of my life , he wrote . |
| 10 | He , or the second horseman , did this for the whole of the field until it was marked out in equally spaced stetches . |
| 11 | ‘ I would n't miss this for the whole of Christendom . ’ |
| 12 | What however is the implication of all this for the relationship of Bürgertum , or bourgeoisie , and bürgerliche Gesellschaft ? |
| 13 | And yet he is prepared to risk all this for the chance to make his city a better place . |
| 14 | As to the prospects of a resumption of oil exports by Iraq , Baghdad 's State Oil Marketing Organization ( SOMO ) forecast this for the beginning of the third quarter of 1991 . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 16 | ‘ I will never understand this for the rest of my life . |
| 17 | A wild urge to cling to him like this for the rest of her life ? |
| 18 | The group 's belief in its own morality : ‘ We are doing this for the benefit of everyone . ’ |
| 19 | Now please do n't think that I 'm saying this for the benefit of somebody else . |
| 20 | It is worth noting — and I say this for the benefit of my hon. Friend the Minister if for no one else 's benefit — that there has been a great deal of hyprocrisy on the part of the Labour party in Thurrock and Basildon concerning the centralisation of casualty services at Orsett . |
| 21 | The significance of this for the way the daring and needing are put into relation with the infinitive 's event should be obvious . |
| 22 | Oh and give her that ointment please , I have n't got it down and put this for the nurse . |
| 23 | point out quite rightly that the matrix clause " expresses the subject 's preference " here but they fail to see the implications of this for the infinitive . |
| 24 | The consequence of this for the curriculum must be that within all subject areas both aspects must be attended to . |
| 25 | ‘ Has it ever hungered like this for the caress of any other lover ? ’ |
| 26 | By virtue of Theorem 1 it is sufficient to prove this for the case when P is an x-IF/ALT program . |
| 27 | But rather than simply using this for the purpose of political comment in a static model of the communication process , the rationale behind its retention here is that there are real and important differences between these two groups and their relationships , and work , with the media . |
| 28 | Both factors meant that bureaucrats had every incentive to try to maximise the budgets of their own service without any regard to the larger implications of this for the scale of state activity and public expenditure . |
| 29 | What did Fred talk him into all this for the blame wo n't he ? |
| 30 | The SDLP 's deputy leader , Seamus Mallon , said : ‘ The question is — is this for the optics or is it for real ? ’ |