Example sentences of "they [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely in a sense you 're unfair , for example , to the gifted children by putting them through this mode . |
| 2 | These are the new rate books , we 've literally only had them through this week . |
| 3 | Mm , mm and no , I dropped them off this morning , that 's it , he 's picking them up |
| 4 | They begged him to let them off this time , but he rang back hour after hour , day , after day : " Sell your car . |
| 5 | Young people who have been caught in this trap have had no information given to them about this change and can not avail themselves of the choice of training like colleagues born on or before July 1 . |
| 6 | They 've had a very busy summer in the Admissions Office , but now the new academic year is underway , I 've invited them into the studio to ask them about this year 's admissions . |
| 7 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 8 | When a colleague discovered that I was coming here to do this er she saw it as laughable and she also saw it as something that I would prefer to keep quiet from my colleagues and tried a bit of moral blackmail on me as well to say I 'm going to tell them about that if you do n't them about this sort of thing . |
| 9 | ‘ Whatever you do , do n't tell them about this lot . ’ |
| 10 | Just tell them about this product , what it can do , and I assure you of the results . |
| 11 | Tony 's mother had made them for this occasion , and though recipes vary slightly the end result is a large currant biscuit . |
| 12 | At the end of this term , the Ayton School choir goes to Coventry Cathedral and Mr Essex , who will sing there with them , is currently rehearsing them for this occasion . |
| 13 | The point is not that companies are ideal mechanisms for making decisions which have important social effects ( in the sense that we would choose them for this purpose other considerations being equal ) . |
| 14 | I note that now they have offered to construct a footway along this small section if you will dedicate the land to them for this purpose . |
| 15 | The second is that it is not the right allocation of available resources to use them for this patient . |
| 16 | For that matter , now that I see them for this moment so clearly , what has Hugh to do with the king , either ? |
| 17 | The attempt in the Treaty to reorganize the Balkans as a stable structure of national states appealed to them for this reason . |
| 18 | Oxfam sell Crakapax ( they have ordered them for this Christmas and are waiting for deliveries ) which contain pre-cut cracker shapes in metallic foil . |
| 19 | I do n't want them after this visit tomorrow I might go out one more time |
| 20 | Thus if the first purpose of a particular religion is to help people to a sense of the presence of God and express a response to God , then the study of the ritual which helps them towards this goal must constantly draw attention to this significance . |
| 21 | The true cats of the genus Felis have a different attachment of the larynx that robs them of this ability . |
| 22 | The great advantage to them of this approach is that it has a strong one-firm concept , where most of the values arid styles of the consultants are compatible , thus making it potentially easier to integrate as a consultancy team . |
| 23 | This therefore tends to essentialize ‘ the prejudiced individual ’ — the prejudiced teacher or student — who becomes the target for pedagogies that are supposed to cure them of this pathology . |
| 24 | And the dominance among them of this point of view hardened the tensions and conflicts within an industrial society . |
| 25 | The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact . |
| 26 | He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money ! |
| 27 | We will encounter them throughout this book . |
| 28 | Will he ensure that at that poverty level , those additional 400,000 pensioners are informed of their rights to claim income support so that they can at the very least receive what little is due to them under this Government ? |
| 29 | An example of such a clause is the following which was found in the Foreign Compensation Act 1950 , a statute setting up a body known as the Foreign Compensation Commission : ‘ The determination by the commission of any application made to them under this Act shall not be called in question in any court of law . ’ |
| 30 | The statute provided that : ‘ The determination by the Commission of any application made to them under this Act shall not be called in question in any court of law . ’ |