Example sentences of "[prep] this [noun sg] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'm going to promise and you 've got to remind me about this promise that the next Tuesday , that 's when you 're or even Wednesday , but if I give it you Tuesday we can be organized for Wednesday ca n't we ? |
| 2 | I had already heard about this plan because the doctor had discussed it with my father ; but it was apparent that Eric himself was not at all enthusiastic about it . |
| 3 | Joel Weiner , marketing executive of Kraft General Foods It is precisely because we are not complacent about this issue that the Government have been preparing a major Food Bill since October 1987 . |
| 4 | Now the thing about this crew and the crews that you were talking about from the Hundredth Bomb Group , the , I guess the most famous crew from the Hundred Bomb Group is with the Roses Rivetus Now our crews were at the same time . |
| 5 | Some scholars are uneasy about this interpretation because the sign-groups give only approximations of words and can therefore be made into several different words : the sign-group ‘ po-lo ’ , for example , can be made to mean as many as eight different Greek words . |
| 6 | It was also at about this time that a friend of Charlotte ( whom I met at a party ) commented on how much better Charlotte was looking — considering the circumstances . |
| 7 | It became apparent about this time that the economy was also slowing down . ’ |
| 8 | It was about this time that the power struggle between King Charles I and parliament began to escalate . |
| 9 | It was at about this time that the Duke of Devonshire created the splendid avenue of lime trees which started beside some large houses — Afton House ; Bolton House and Linden House — on the south side of Chiswick High Road , and extending down to the northern boundary of Chiswick House grounds , sweeping on through the magnificent wrought-iron gates , at the end of Hogarth Lane , and continuing through the gardens to the house . |
| 10 | It was about this time that the meal ended . |
| 11 | It was at about this time that the epergne , a standing centre-piece with branched supports for the dessert was coming into fashion . |
| 12 | Gradually , almost stealthily , all the brothers had crept out of their stalls , and gathered in a circle about this altar and the group debating at its foot . |
| 13 | The most essential thing , in a sense , is to give teachers enough information about this condition and the kind of difficulties it creates so that they can recognise it . |
| 14 | All this has been , so to speak , a mere preliminary to the central act of a murder story , the murder , and there are a number of things we should consider about this murder and the murderer . |
| 15 | That was a story Hopper liked to tell , to demonstrate how they were all good friends who were creating a new style of acting ; later , when Nicholson arrived , they had long discussions about this era and the influences it had on all of them . |
| 16 | It is impossible with our conscious mind to fully know what we feel about this place but the Gothic tale can set in motion atavistic fears and fantasies . |
| 17 | The Quiberon ( see Plymouth–Roscoff entry ) will be taken off this route once the Normandie starts sailing . |
| 18 | I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else . |
| 19 | Nothing nakedly visible , indeed not even a faltering step could be discerned during this event but the imprint was there , the unsettling moment had begun . |
| 20 | It was during this decade that the present deaf community 's sports infrastructure was established , following the formation of the British Deaf Amateur Sports Association ( later the British Deaf Sports Council ) in 1930 . |
| 21 | It was during this decade that the erection of the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh was commenced . |
| 22 | The churn rate is now down to eleven percent , the result of positive action that we 've taken there and we expect to add a million homes during this year and the cable audience I am pleased to say is growing still very very slowly er but that should help as well . |
| 23 | It was during this trip that the idea of a ‘ Lincoln Tower ’ arose . |
| 24 | It was during this Test that the word ‘ bodyline ’ was coined by an Australian journalist . |
| 25 | It was during this period that a young buyer for Adidas based in Liverpool ( but originally from Yorkshire ) set up shop in a small back-street in Liverpool City Centre . |
| 26 | It was during this period that the wheel and most of the machinery was stripped out . |
| 27 | It was during this period that the boroughs of Bethnal Green , Stepney , Mile End and Poplar witnessed a net loss of population for the first time . |
| 28 | Although in the middle of the seventeenth century Muscovy was racked by a series of civil rebellions , peasant wars , religious turmoil and military mutiny , it was also during this period that the foundations for the political , social and economic structures of the tsarist imperial system were laid down . |
| 29 | It was during this period that the main lower peat of the Fens , with its bog oak , was formed . |
| 30 | Yet it is a testimony to the strength of party during this period that the Court , despite the resources of patronage at its disposal , largely failed to establish itself as an independent interest . |