Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] this [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got ta pay for the coach this time have n't we , or something ? |
| 2 | ‘ He has put me at your service , sir , ’ replied the monk , ‘ for the love this boy bears you . |
| 3 | One of the principal reasons for the success this season has been an influx of new players . |
| 4 | For the dreamer this illusion represents a deep and pleasurable necessity — which accounts for the well-known state of mind in which a dreamer can say , " It is a dream : I want to go on dreaming it . " |
| 5 | For the record this shirt looks uncomfortably like those worn around my area when Oxford were doing particularly well . |
| 6 | During the War this difference narrowed , until in 1942 the figures were 86 in the winter and only 108 in the summer . |
| 7 | There was something very handy about the way this story had come out . |
| 8 | The launch of the Linn CD player , an exotic two-box player priced at ten pounds less than £2600 , comes just a decade into the era of CD , and at a time when record player sales are on their uppers , and W H Smith , the UK 's largest purveyor of prerecorded music , is pledged to withdraw LPs from its stores by about the time this issue hits the newsstands . |
| 9 | About the time this match took place , Tonks was in the IRB meeting room alongside the French delegate and was not impressed that they had not made him aware of the game — if they in fact knew about it . |
| 10 | In looking to the future of coal after the strike this study considers that demand will be little higher in the UK in the year 2000 than in 1983 and that roughly 10% of demand could well be supplied by imported coal . |
| 11 | It was good to see and touch the Inca stones again ; to remind myself of the depth this city had : the dignity beyond the constant assault of the hustlers . |
| 12 | Kuhn 's direction has accuracy and breadth on its side , and also just speeds , but something of the incandescence this score calls for is missing . |
| 13 | For the duration of the evaluation this space remained undeveloped , and although minimally used as a work area by some children , its main function was that of storage for an embryonic collection of newspaper cuttings . |
| 14 | In the middle of the sex this man whispered in Boy 's ear , you 're just like him , you know , you 're just like him you are . |
| 15 | In thinking about what Stalinism brought to his country , Kundera thinks of the support this despotism has received from the writers of his country , and of other countries . |
| 16 | While the balance of power has decisively shifted , it is worth considering some of the educational implications of the transformation this chapter has attempted to describe . |
| 17 | After a brief description of the nature of the school and the order the staff attempt to impose , Stewart Butterfield lets the diaries speak for themselves of the way this order appeared on one day . |
| 18 | THE letters page of the Guardian this week has resembled a wailing wall for the Left . |
| 19 | It is not clear whether Lancaster 's men were in arms or not , but Mortimer regarded his absence as a sufficient threat to raise a force in the king 's name , and on the way back to London from Salisbury in the company of the king this force encountered Lancaster 's men near Winchester . |
| 20 | ( When he became Chancellor of the Exchequer this practice caused consternation at the Treasury , when he used only a page of notes to assist him in moving complicated resolutions on wartime finance ; he relied successfully on his memory to provide details and figures . ) |
| 21 | Of the course this unity crumbles as soon as the national cause is identified not with generalities , but with more divisive specifics : not with ‘ Israel ’ in general , but with the supremacy of the Welsh language ; not with Flemishness as against Frenchness , but with a specific Flemish nationalist party . |
| 22 | These grievances and demands remained and although they did not drive the students out onto the streets of the capital this time to demonstrate , it was clear that they certainly could at some time in the near future . |
| 23 | Situated right in the centre of the village this hotel has always been popular with British holidaymakers . |
| 24 | By the end of the war this culture had been defeated , and the victorious Puritans and their nonconformist allies who had gained control of the reins of central government believed they now had an opportunity to impose on the whole nation the same moral reforms that prior to 1640 they had struggled to instigate piecemeal at a local level . |
| 25 | The lady Anne is a Mowbray all right , so 't is plain from which side of the family this lass comes . |
| 26 | In the rest of the Community this ethos does not exist ; accordingly , the seizure of a company by means of acquiring shareholdings may be seen as unethical and therefore met by strong resistance . |
| 27 | THE first glimpse of Britain 's trading position with the rest of the world this year shows that the trade gap remains broadly stable . |
| 28 | THE first glimpse of Britain 's trading position with the rest of the world this year showed today that the trade gap remained broadly stable . |
| 29 | Counsel in support of the application this morning has not been able to say that that claim or allegation has been abandoned . |
| 30 | As chairman of the Cambridgeshire Committee in effect , covering the whole of East Anglia — some 800 youngsters came within her province , although at the height of the evacuation this figure increased to 2000 . |