Example sentences of "[prep] this [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know Devlin a little better than he imagines and I was not at all fooled about this easy assignment of yours . ’ |
| 2 | But there is not much Pinter , and definitely no Beckett , about this solid piece of middle-class music theatre by the Canadian composer Quenten Doolittle , which began its short British tour by the Banff Music Theatre at the Chapter Arts Centre , Cardiff . |
| 3 | Thinking about this one morning in 1954 , I went along to the keeper of the laboratory chemical stores and asked him for something which was water-soluble and formed needle crystals . |
| 4 | Let's hear all about this new man of yours . ’ |
| 5 | Her mood of euphoria was infectious and for the moment anyway Harry knew that he was every bit as happy about this new relationship as the girl in his arms . |
| 6 | ‘ And when you found out about this new plan of theirs , they kidnapped Liam to stop you telling . ’ |
| 7 | The breakdown of English intellectual insularity is welcome in principle , but a few things need to be said about this new turn to France . |
| 8 | It 's unfair , Bernard , you 've been in this job much longer than me , what do you think about this new menu for the canteen at Digby 's Ballbearings ? |
| 9 | Many subject specialists have questions and some understandable fears about this new way of working so the session is normally run jointly by an ESL practitioner and a subject lecturer with experience of language support work . |
| 10 | ‘ I heard about this awful accident on the radio and I 'm worried sick … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 've heard about this Hawaiian jaunt of mine , presumably ? ’ |
| 12 | There were , of course , some hidden benefits to being the head boy amongst the junior pilots , I seemed to be something of a senior subaltern , and as such donned the mantle which brings to mind the old chestnut about this essential character in regimental life who enters the Mess , sees a great array of flowers and demands " who put those bloody flowers there ? " |
| 13 | But he was never heard to say what he thought ( if , indeed , he thought anything at all ) about this vast amount of random detail he must have accumulated in his later years . |
| 14 | ( There is more about this fascinating subject in Chapter 9 , ‘ Living Language ’ . ) |
| 15 | As a result , Marx and Engels were not only wrong about this early stage in the history of mankind , but they also left themselves unable to deal with it theoretically . |
| 16 | CD added a jocular footnote about this accidental anachronism to the Cheap Edition of Pickwick in 1847 . |
| 17 | There is an eerie stamp of disaster about this wind-thrown entanglement in the murky half-light of night water . |
| 18 | In most research studies of bereaved people it is recorded time and time again that , so long as the people involved have somewhere to go and someone to talk to about this major loss in their life , then they may well cope . |
| 19 | The majority of Danes asking ‘ Geoff Who ? ’ were soon enlightened and by the end of the evening there was hum of comment about this tasteful guitarist with a tone that would impress Peter Green himself ! |
| 20 | And I 'm sorry about this idiotic issue of how you look . |
| 21 | There was something a little unsettling about this shifting quality of his — this ability , like a prism , to cast lights of varying colours , all different , all startling , all totally unexpected . |
| 22 | Above : The great thing about this indoor pool by Cascade is that during the warm summer months the doors slide open to give you the best of both worlds . |
| 23 | What about this poor thing in the corner ? |
| 24 | The problem , particularly for women of such limited resources as Rose of Lima , is how do you , given the restrictions , go about this great work of ‘ penetrating the universe ’ ? |
| 25 | But what most impresses you about this phenomenal piece of theatre is less its class affiliations than its national attributes : a drama of mutinous impulses crushed by an authoritarian social system is given consummate rendering by a cast who very triumphantly unite energy and discipline . |
| 26 | If you 're looking for the perfect summer dress , how about this flattering style with full skirt and neatly-belted waist ? |
| 27 | Later the Children 's Panel Advisory Committee Chairman was informed about this alleged breach of provisions in the Social Work ( Scotland ) Act 1968 relating to the operation of the Children 's Panel . |
| 28 | There was that unmistakable sound of the clock striking thirteen about this unexpected turn of events . |
| 29 | There was something about this huge expanse of rugged land that changed his sense of time . |
| 30 | I dreamed about this one-legged seaman for many nights afterwards . |