Example sentences of "[prep] this [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most commentators , whatever they think about this as a philosophy , agree it is the ‘ clients ’ or ‘ users ’ who lost out . |
| 2 | I 'd just like to second that it was a good day and also to point out as the er man who made the postcards we should n't get too excited about this as a money making scheme . |
| 3 | We saw that we can think about this on a stock basis at a point in time or on a flow basis per period of time . |
| 4 | And wh y'know we thought about this for a y'know a long time t and what we do want is a thin tier of bureaucracy . |
| 5 | Masklin thought about this for a while . |
| 6 | Don Mini thought about this for a while , then he said , ‘ You are a very small boy and because of that I think a swan could carry you quite easily . ’ |
| 7 | And you think about this for a while — how a 72-year-old man can get away with a storyline that rappers 50 years his junior would get a battering for . |
| 8 | Stuart thought about this for a while . |
| 9 | Gedanken thought about this for a while . |
| 10 | Well , how about this for a scenario : twenty years of solid touring and recording for major names ; a niche in the elite ‘ who 's who ’ of session guitarists on both sides of the Atlantic ; featured on television three times a week backing major artists live on a very hip chat show ; going straight into production for another live prime-time show on Saturday nights ; and work with Tom Jones , Al Jarreau , Stevie Wonder , Mica Paris , Cindi Lauper , Bob Geldof and Curtis Stigers , to name but a few . |
| 11 | And it 's Tommy who 's scored , the young Irishman has done so well at the heart of the defence for Shrewsbury , has got into the opposition penalty area and what about this for a score line ? |
| 12 | She thought about this for a moment or two and then said : ‘ I see no harm in that . |
| 13 | He thought about this for a moment , and shook his head . |
| 14 | He thought about this for a moment . |
| 15 | My mother thought about this for a moment until comprehension came to her , whereupon she changed the subject out of deference to my youth and inexperience . |
| 16 | You have to sit back and think about this for a moment to sort out what 's going on . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't say anything about this to a soul . |
| 18 | You can now create multiple-file browse-and-edit screens for QBE searches ( more about this in a minute ) ; a lot more sophistication is now possible in calculated fields ; and queries execute much faster . |
| 19 | I decided , therefore , to ask her about this in a conversation I conducted after her interview : |
| 20 | The association 's chief aim is to ‘ improve the professionalism of the security industry ’ , and it goes about this in a number of ways . |
| 21 | But what substance makes him produce answers such as this to a question about extending unemployment benefits : ‘ If a frog had wings , he would n't hit his tail on the ground — too hypothetical . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's most unfair of the Labour Party to have imposed a burden such as this on a man of John Scott 's age , ’ he says . |
| 23 | So Xionics does not get involved in selling its computer network , which it calls Xinet ; instead it has handed responsibility for this to a distributor . |
| 24 | and I thought , it came out erm , incorrect pin number , please remove your card , I thought at least I 'm getting it back you know so I whipped it out , I said to mum , I 'm gon na have to pay for this with a cheque , I said , I ca n't get the cash out , and she , she said why , and I said I , I forgotten my number , I was getting in quite a panic cos I knew I did n't have it written down anywhere at home . |
| 25 | So , even if we had a precise account of adult human knowledge of inside , support , and behind , we could not equate any part of this with a cat 's or a chimp 's knowledge simply by jettisoning those parts of it influenced by our linguistic representations . |
| 26 | In poly ( methyl methacrylate ) , a methyl deformation at 7.25 µm is unaffected by microstructure , and comparison of this with a band at 9.40 µm , which is present only in atactic or syndiotactic polymers allows an estimate of the syndiotacticity to be made from the ratio . |
| 27 | There was a lot more rhubarb , along the lines of ‘ Yes , what ? ’ and ‘ What are we going to sing , brothers ? ’ and then Mrs Quigley cut in over the top of this with a cadenza that would not have disgraced Dame Kiri Te Kanawa . |
| 28 | These mathematical concepts are obviously rather well suited to represent the physical idea of superposition , which involves adding a bit of this to a bit of that . |
| 29 | And you did all of this without a word to anyone … ’ |
| 30 | He delivered all of this without a tremor in his voice . |