Example sentences of "this to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody seems to have explained this to her , but finally she understands . |
| 2 | If you wish to give small amounts regularly , e.g. monthly , you could accumulate the money in a separate account and then convert this to a gift to ACET every time the amount reaches £600 . |
| 3 | I would like this to be explained to me as I just do n't understand it . |
| 4 | Our civilization has at least this to its credit , he wrote , that it has found a way of rounding up this dishonest crap and incarcerating it in morgues , in fortified places with guards and alarm bells and the rest , thus keeping it off the streets , protecting decent citizens , and now , he wrote , there are even moves afoot to repel intruders by making them pay hard cash to enter these fortified places . |
| 5 | Why is it doing this to me ? |
| 6 | Price recommends all caterers to not only determine the micron thickness when looking at silver-plated cutlery , but also to ask for this to be specified on the invoice . |
| 7 | ‘ I shall have to report this to my superiors , ’ he finally said , when only Peggy remained in the tent . |
| 8 | Why was I doing this to them ? |
| 9 | It can be quite painful , for the insider is studying his own social navel , with the potential always present that he will recognize this to be only one of a number of arbitrary possibilities and perhaps also find that many practices are built on the flimsiest of moral precepts . |
| 10 | Such expansions of police power were forecast by E. P. Thompson ( 1980 ) , who considered this to be a period which has no equal . |
| 11 | He links this to the act of consciousness raising , which I consider presents the greatest problem for the insider who can not leave the field or return to academia . |
| 12 | No way she could show this to Lucy ! |
| 13 | And just selfish enough to demand that momma bird flies back to the bloody nest — surely to God not tonight , you ca n't do this to me , Lucy , I 'm going to crack with all this nothing . |
| 14 | I drew this to the attention of Mellowes , my line manager , at an early stage and he had made vague noises about something being in the pipeline . |
| 15 | I have tried to sketch in outline why I think this to be wrong . |
| 16 | ‘ Foreigners have no God , ’ she claimed , as if she wanted to weaken my resolve and then , correcting herself and asking God 's pardon , she changed this to ‘ Our God , the God of Islam , is different from theirs in the West . ’ |
| 17 | Opening an area such as this to the public means just that , and together with genuine walkers and climbers arrive the wild flower pickers , the egg stealers and the litter louts . |
| 18 | If you are fitting several lights ( downlighters or eyeball spots , say ) , run this cable to the nearest fitting , and then run cable from this to the next nearest , and so on to the last . |
| 19 | You would not expect a well-made machine like this to be light , and at 2.8kg ( 6.2lb ) it is n't , so you need the two handles moulded into the case of the machine to help hold it . |
| 20 | I found this to be the case when trying to replace a ballcock valve washer in a hot water tank in a very narrow airing cupboard . |
| 21 | Our final text elaborates this to ‘ the nauseating smell of fresh paint which had been mixed with rancid oil ’ . |
| 22 | Baranowski and his team attribute this to a layered arrangement of atoms — visible in the electron microscope . |
| 23 | Mason weighed in at 17st 103 4 lb for Biggs , heavier by 10lb than ever before , and attributes this to a groin injury sustained when turning out in a charity football match . |
| 24 | When they did this to me I was quite startled , in spite of Sir Robert 's warning . |
| 25 | When they need food , they will often pay for it in gold or hard currency , although villagers rarely admit this to the local authorities , preferring to say that their rice was stolen . |
| 26 | ‘ They keep saying , ‘ Why are they doing this to us ? ’ |
| 27 | She did this to Marianne Prommeger , a tall Austrian , in her first fight to earn a decision . |
| 28 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 29 | How is this to be done . |
| 30 | I confess I do not find much relevance in this to the death penalty . |