Example sentences of "[verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other aspects of the package were fundamental to the successful development of a high-performance system , and distinguish this approach from previous applications of quality-of-working-life techniques . |
| 2 | If we study the annual function of social capital — hence of the total capital of which the individual capital forms only fractional parts , whose movement is their individual movement and simultaneously integrating link in the movement of the total capital — and its results , i.e. , if we study the commodity-product furnished by society during the year , then it must become apparent how the process of reproduction of the social capital takes place , what characteristics distinguish this process of reproduction from the process of reproduction of an individual capital , and what characteristics are common to both . |
| 3 | A number of factors have been identified which distinguish this sort of country : |
| 4 | The film ’ Jurassic Park ’ premieres this week , and trading standards officers say they 're already on the look-out for counterfeit copies . |
| 5 | United States judges also have gone abroad on rare occasions , e.g. , to England in the Westinghouse case , but it is understood that the United States now discourages this practice . |
| 6 | Women in Love , as Lawrence himself says , is a war book , and that conflict itself helped to induce this conviction . |
| 7 | But the inspired wraparound decor inside transforms this workaday pub into a Tardis-like temple of Caligulan dimensions . |
| 8 | The Royal Flying Corps aerodrome at Rendcombe near Cirencester is playing host this weekend to a display of vintage aircraft , and some vintage flying . |
| 9 | The museums and art galleries of England 's Midlands will be playing host this spring to a series of exhibitions featuring the often bizarre collections of local residents . |
| 10 | I met this Frenchman at Masstricht who kissed me on both cheeks . |
| 11 | Her philosophy of life changed when she was 17 and met this girl who was from a really weird and fucked-up background , but who was ‘ so positive ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Over the next couple of months he got his life together and he met this girl and they got engaged . |
| 13 | So I was waling through the bus station one day and I met this girl and er Ooh , she said , I 'm glad I 've seen you , she said . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I do n't know , ’ says Charles , ‘ but I met this girl in television the other evening , and she said people are going to be dropping off your Matterhorn thing like fleas off a dog . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Actually I met this girl . |
| 16 | Oh and he met this girl , they went for a weekend to Aviemore . |
| 17 | Er when Maureen met this girl and she found out she lived in Manchester common . |
| 18 | We stood there with nothing in our bags we went for my fruit and veg and er , sto there , met this couple who we know we had a right good talk to them about , it were half an hour were n't we ? |
| 19 | The industry met this threat in 1922 by appointing its own censor , Harding 's former Postmaster-General , Will Hays . |
| 20 | What is more , Celtic and German dialects received very early the Greek verb in the sense of " to graft " : it has given " enter " in French , " impfen " in German , and I like to remember that I first met this word in my childhood as a current term of Piedmontese agriculture . |
| 21 | By a coincidence I met this man on the summit of Sergeant Man in the Lake District two months later . |
| 22 | When you met this man you say you loved , surely you could have told me . " |
| 23 | I met this man and I thought he was wonderful — so nice to me and everything when I first met him . |
| 24 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 25 | Thirdly was the need for a high quality printer and the Canon page printing engine met this requirement exactly . |
| 26 | I met this bloke in August who said , ‘ I 'll only consider going out with you if you lose three stone ’ . |
| 27 | SHE MET THIS BLOKE ON HOLIDAY IN SPAIN — HER FIRST BOYFRIEND . |
| 28 | People came to us after the meeting , we met this lady and er she was really interested in our cause . |
| 29 | and you 've seen one of his craft places where I met this lady , she sort of works there or |
| 30 | ( I met this boy , he 's living on the streets , we stole a boat . ) |