Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contained within the breccias are the fossilized bones of many animals that lived in this part of Britain during the middle Pleistocene , and we will be describing the way in which the fossil bones of the smaller animals came to be deposited . |
| 2 | But beneath it all , beneath the strange rituals that passed in this milieu for normality , there was an undercurrent of fear , of latent panic . |
| 3 | The case has echoes of the row that erupted in this country over The Krays movie . |
| 4 | But it 's a strange kind of thing that happened in this part of the country , the kind of story you get in Suffolk and Norfolk . |
| 5 | Turbine engines had not been introduced into regular airline use when I joined the Branch ; also one 's practical application of aerodynamics had to be radically modified to cope with the characteristics of high speed flight with swept wings and all the associated developments that went with this revolution in flying . |
| 6 | All they had to do was indicate the points in the text at which the language created an effect of surprise ; the task of the stylistician was then to analyze the contrast , between the linguistic structure of the device and that of its immediate context , that accounted for this effect of surprise . |
| 7 | In Nicosia that morning Andreas Panayiotou had warned us about snakes , and in particular , about the squat , dirt-coloured and venomous vipers that congregated at this time of year near water where they hunted birds . |
| 8 | He could also play a variety of instruments ( and passed on this ability to his children ) and knew songs and melodies which had never been written down — just passed on from ear to ear via generations of Dalesmen . |
| 9 | ‘ I messed around with it and got into this thing of splitting up the amps because I always thought that the guitar was a bit flat in mono . |
| 10 | It has successfully developed and operated a port at Sheerness in Kent and drew on this experience in deciding to develop a commercial port in the easternmost portion of the old dockyard . |
| 11 | This means that all users who may be affected by the SPR are notified of its existence via the Mail System , and that a particular user is nominated to respond to the SPR and informed of this responsibility via the Mail System . |
| 12 | Money is lent and borrowed in this way on the interbank market . |
| 13 | ‘ I bought it as a deposit on another car and went on this journey for a reason , ’ he said . |
| 14 | After having worked as a medic and observed first-hand the horrors of war , Beckmann began to produce ambitious paintings with religious themes and continued in this vein until the early 1920s . |
| 15 | In the early 1970s he became Manager Hops and continued in this role for the remainder of his career at Park Royal . |
| 16 | In 1887 he was appointed district surveyor for Charlton , Lee , and Kidbrooke under the Metropolitan board of works and continued in this post under the London county council . |
| 17 | The time , the effort and the loving dedication of those who conceived and carried through this project to completion make us , the Three-Ninetieth , sincerely grateful and humbly thankful to each and everyone of you , our friends . |
| 18 | Then the secretory rate declined during second and third hours to the level of about 15–20 mg/30 minutes and remained at this level during the fourth and fifth hour of caerulein infusion . |
| 19 | Erm , cos I just thought he was guessing , you know , and he said he says , I did n't see him , he said I only saw him and pointed to this girl over the other side of the room he was standing beside you when you were in the chair . |
| 20 | Malpas , the captain , normally deals with such intrusions efficiently , but blundered on this occasion with a slack header towards his goalkeeper which Wright intercepted and guided beyond the advancing Main . |