Example sentences of "[to-vb] this [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may be wondering if you will have enough willpower to see this through for the whole 28 days . |
| 2 | With sterling out of Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , Britons tend to write this off as a pipe-dream . |
| 3 | She tells me that ‘ the mother is just going through the process of grieving for the child she has n't had ’ ( the child is already eight months old ) : the health visitor 's instruction in the art of creating unpersons has been exemplary , and no doubt she is keen to pass this on to the mother . |
| 4 | Soper , has already purchased the house where Miller was born and plans to incorporate this along with the Control Tower into the Museum complex . |
| 5 | The management of the large Alhambra Theatre agreed to put this on for a week as a curtain-raiser to a horror film starring Boris Karloff . |
| 6 | There is some indication that the Government would like to put this on to the back burner , in order to concentrate the minds of schools on reportable results and market performance . |
| 7 | She found nothing , although she did n't know whether to put this down to a lack of success on the part of the police or the massive coverage afforded to the hijacking of a wide-bodied jet over Italy . |
| 8 | I 'm going to take this up with the Minister , but it 's difficult to police remote tracks . |
| 9 | It had been one of Gregory 's first acts as pope to invest and consecrate him as bishop of Die , and to follow this up with a letter to the count of Die which contains a first draft of his later decree prohibiting the investiture of bishops by secular rulers . |
| 10 | ‘ With luck we 'll be able to follow this down to the coast instead , and I do believe I see a cave just up ahead , ’ Travis said encouragingly . |
| 11 | She had not intended to bring this out into the open in quite this way , but she was left with little option , and she had a vague instinct that in the long run it might reap results . |