Example sentences of "[vb past] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met this Frenchman at Masstricht who kissed me on both cheeks . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I do n't know , ’ says Charles , ‘ but I met this girl in television the other evening , and she said people are going to be dropping off your Matterhorn thing like fleas off a dog . ’ |
| 3 | The industry met this threat in 1922 by appointing its own censor , Harding 's former Postmaster-General , Will Hays . |
| 4 | What is more , Celtic and German dialects received very early the Greek verb in the sense of " to graft " : it has given " enter " in French , " impfen " in German , and I like to remember that I first met this word in my childhood as a current term of Piedmontese agriculture . |
| 5 | By a coincidence I met this man on the summit of Sergeant Man in the Lake District two months later . |
| 6 | SHE MET THIS BLOKE ON HOLIDAY IN SPAIN — HER FIRST BOYFRIEND . |
| 7 | I met this bloke in August who said , ‘ I 'll only consider going out with you if you lose three stone ’ . |
| 8 | He met this challenge by manufacturing a sense of drama through his theatrical style of rule and through his ambitious policies . |
| 9 | We met this distinction between controlled and uncontrolled X in Section 6.1 . |
| 10 | I sa , as I say , I met this morning with the three members from Potter Street erm we do have various alternative proposals for sa ways forward should the village back out and what I can say to you at this stage is that we have another meeting scheduled for next week , we will be meeting with the Resident 's Associations keeping them fully informed erm we will ensure that the letter goes back to Mrs who and the other Resident 's Associations who expressed concern there and that we will be taking , I hope , I hope because I 'm gon na have to say if Woolwich back out we 're going out we 're going have to move very fast and do some quite erm in-depth work . |
| 11 | Then one night I went out and I met this DJ from Taboo , which was a club at the time . |
| 12 | She points to the newcomer and explains , " I met this woman at the council housing department and she said I could stay with her . " |
| 13 | Anyway , this mate of his and his wife — things went from bad to worse , seems he met this woman from Dundee who travelled down regular on the same train and one day he just Got Off with her and the upshot of the whole thing was a Dear-Jeannette-Letter from Sullom Voe . |
| 14 | Yeah I am making it up , it 's not me making it up , mathematicians had things like erm you , you , you met this sort of earlier on in school . |
| 15 | I met this fellow from Newmarket when we were at The University Arms in Cambridge . |
| 16 | In some districts it was due to the death of an older generation who were , often for reasons of religious belief , philanthropically disposed and whose successors lacked this combination of religious commitment ( evangelicalism in particular had lost much of its mid-nineteenth century hold ) and social responsibility . |
| 17 | He sadly posted this letter on a wet Sunday afternoon in Leeds . |
| 18 | And if you lived this end of the village you was an uptowner , see ? |
| 19 | Yeah well I was only in Gwindy for three years , then I went to Lewis Girls because I lived this end of I had to go to I loved Gwindy school . |
| 20 | Eventually they divided this process into sixty-four stages ; In the Book of Changes each stage is represented by a hexagram — a six-line figure made up of whole and broken lines . |
| 21 | However , although the original handbook recommended this type of oil , a supplement sheet stipulated 20W/50 oil ( engine oil ) . |
| 22 | A teacher who showed an interest in Asian culture was asked by a colleague , ‘ why do n't you wear Indian dress ? ’ and was greeted by a mock Indian prayer movement every time she passed this colleague in the corridor . |
| 23 | After an hour or two of hard work , I passed this letter to him . |
| 24 | He passed this beam through holes in a rotating wheel , or oscillating miniature venetian blind , to chop it up or ‘ modulate ’ it . |
| 25 | In the early 1970s the courts applied this test with extreme rigour . |
| 26 | Bukharin envisaged negative reproduction taking place even before such a catastrophic situation was reached , however , and he applied this concept to the capitalist countries . |
| 27 | His central principle was that ‘ probability is the guide to life ’ , and he applied this principle to those who find it difficult to accept Christianity . |
| 28 | In Re Sigsworth , the judge applied this principle to the interpretation of the intestacy statute which made no mention of it . |
| 29 | The Court of Appeal applied this passage in Nicholls v Rushton ( 1992 ) The Times , 19 June , CA . |
| 30 | But he later applied this insight to the central issues of political and legal theory . |