Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] [to-vb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that you will be able to spare the time to complete this form . |
| 2 | Mrs Chalker echoed Mr Brady 's comments when she told the bank 's board yesterday : ‘ It is not clear to me that new facilities are needed to enable the bank to address this problem [ of defence conversion ] . |
| 3 | It sounded fascinating so I decided to find the book to write this essay . |
| 4 | but , but that 's , that 's that 's easily remedied if you could get a er a driving licence holder to take them oh a volunteer driving licence holder among one of the parents or somebody who could take the children , er , periodically in the bus to visit the hospital to do this sort of thing . |
| 5 | But that 's that 's perhaps easily remedied , if you could get a er a driving licence holder to take them , who , a volunteer driving licence holder , among one of the parents or somebody who could take the children at periodic intervals to visit the hospital to do this sort of thing . |
| 6 | In wartime food had got to be produced , and all the young men were off the land , somebody 'd got to grow the food to feed this country and it was getting a bit desperate , because , old Hitler , he was no fool . |
| 7 | Fred Sharpe is beginning to regret the decision to buy this ingredient in advance as it will deteriorate in store and may become dangerous before the end of the budget period . |
| 8 | The aim , therefore , was both to create new centres of national capitalism and to neutralize the capacity to obstruct this process of the three dominant powers of backward Europe — the Tsars , the Habsburg emperors , and the monarchs of Prussia ( the three were interlocked in the tripartite division of Poland ) . |
| 9 | Use a large builder 's trowel to lift the tile to make this task easier . |
| 10 | I am extremely grateful to have the opportunity to raise this issue and I am glad that my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs is present , because I know that he will listen with his usual thoughtfulness , great knowledge and understanding of the problems that I will enunciate . |
| 11 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 12 | And last but not least on these issues of planning which I think is very important , I 'm glad to get the opportunity to put this thing over to people ; I very much regret the way that planning laws have been weakened so that the local authorities do n't have the power they used to have . |
| 13 | Obviously Devlin Parnham had been prepared to agree to any sort of conditions to get the count to accept this mission . |