Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun sg] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , you see , it 's you that 's using the caravan this week so they can come here they can they ? |
| 2 | Inexperience in the heavier , but more powerful Indycars aside , Mansell said he could face problems if Cyclone Roger , which has been lashing the coast this week , brings rain on race day . |
| 3 | Within minutes , he has told me he will be seeing the PM this afternoon , and that he dined with Mrs Thatcher the previous evening . |
| 4 | Despite the two-child family becoming the average this century , most women married since 1930 have not had two children : three-quarters had at least one child more or less than the average . |
| 5 | Rather than ending the discussion this decision merely began a period of three years during which the issue of " Unity " was rarely off the agendas of local Labour parties , trade unions and other sections of the labour movement . |
| 6 | I believe that you will be well able to represent the views of the members of this mailing list so there is not much I can add except perhaps a comment , that with all the transfers at the club in the recent past , that the team is perhaps unsettled and that gaining the championship this season seems difficult . |
| 7 | I did think about emptying the pond this spring and coating the concrete with a rubber paint , but what about the plants . |
| 8 | For the past two days she had been dreading the proximity this trip would involve , but gradually , as the car wound its way along the narrow mountain roads , she could feel herself beginning to relax . |
| 9 | Harris accuses Cole of ‘ stepping away from a system that must face up to the hypocrisy behind pretending to give a helping hand ’ and ignoring the way this system ‘ ( ab ) uses the South … and , in the words of Eduardo Galeano , ‘ spreads the haemorrage to cure the anaemia' ’ . |
| 10 | Yeah , there be me and you planting bulbs and cleaning the house this morning |
| 11 | And then I , too , found myself squinting and peering at it , turning the scrap this way and that . |
| 12 | He scrutinised the items , turning the tissue this way and that under the light . |
| 13 | An audio-tape recording in which the exercises are described can be a useful adjunct to teaching the patient this method , provided the therapist has first demonstrated the procedure to the patient , and the technique has been learned adequately . |
| 14 | Brief your participants that you will be conducting the meeting this way and expect their co-operation . |
| 15 | I 've been considering the problem this afternoon . |
| 16 | In moving the motion this time I 'm not going to be very passionate like I normally am on on subjects in this council chamber I 'm I 'm actually gon na try and keep , I 'm actually going to try and keep politics down to a low level and er because I believe there conscience on all sides of this chamber . |
| 17 | ‘ A forensic expert was examining the Wheel this morning ; did he find anything ? ’ |
| 18 | Councillors will decide this week whether to carry on running the service this summer . |
| 19 | The total cost for installing and running the system this year is £19,428 and then £1,500 a year after that . |
| 20 | Well I think er several points should be ventilated and er I , I think the , while you 're doing the agenda this evening you could add something to each item in turn |
| 21 | He 'll be doing the P.M. this afternoon . " |
| 22 | It means that you do n't get the good views of the Cove until you 've reached Malham Beck , but I think that it 's better doing the walk this way round than going at it clockwise and having to clamber down the scar . |
| 23 | I watch Southport , who have been doing the business this season , and I have noticed an increase in our crowd attendances . |
| 24 | She turned her back on him , unlocking the inner door , and as the warmth from the storage heaters wafted out to greet them she thanked God that she had had the foresight to leave them on — she did n't think she had been properly warm since reading the newspaper this afternoon — no , not even on the plane . |
| 25 | There was no chasing the game this time . |
| 26 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 27 | Taking the lead this year is the Environment Service which will open monuments free of charge . |
| 28 | Here 's Mrs Thatcher molesting the Bible this week in a speech about pollution to a committee of legislators , industrialists and scientists : ‘ Like the Garden of Eden to Adam and Eve anything which is given free is rarely valued … ’ |
| 29 | The way Batty was handled strikes me as a sign that the management are not thinking along winning the championship this year but are prepared to bide their time . |
| 30 | They have no chance of winning the title this season and in the long term they 'll struggle to win the Premier League because they ca n't compete with Blackburn , Arsenal , Leeds and Manchester United … not only on the playing field but on the financial front . |