Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 2 | I phoned up the bank this morning . |
| 3 | Diana Ross sauntered down the catwalk this season wearing little more than a feather boa and a smile . |
| 4 | And I walked up the village this morning the birds were singing their songs |
| 5 | My advice to the Government is that they can not sort out the problem this side of a general election , so why not get on with the job of laying the long-term foundations for a successful economy ? |
| 6 | Wholesalers reported an improvement in sales both year-on-year and compared with February , and said they expected volumes to keep up the pace this month . |
| 7 | THOUSANDS of workers will be stuffing their pockets with extra cash for giving up the turkey this Christmas . |
| 8 | She swallowed drily and asked huskily , ‘ Why ca n't we go down the ladder this way ? ’ |
| 9 | LUCY SOUTTER , the 22-year-old former champion who nearly gave up the game this year after long-lasting viral problems , unexpectedly reclaimed the British national title at Newcastle yesterday by beating Suzanne Horner 9-3 , 9-5 , 9-3 in a final lasting only 43 minutes . |
| 10 | The once-great Computer Systems News , which had to suffer the indignity in its declining months of being called Systems and Network Integration , gives up the ghost this week but not before it reports that IBM will turn up at AutoFacts in November with a new-fangled massively parallel machine that runs both AIX/ES and MVS and is based on a new ( possibly hybrid ) chip developed at the Thomas Watson Lab . |
| 11 | Executives from over 300 North West firms have taken up the Challenge this year |
| 12 | ‘ We picked up the Wheel this afternoon . ’ |