Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next eighteen years people like Hendrik Lorentz and George Fitzgerald tried to accommodate this observation within accepted ideas of space and time . |
| 2 | Daniel Becker , director of the global warming programme of the US environmental group , the Sierra Club , declared that : " The United States helped make this conference a failure . |
| 3 | JUST to prove that there is life after rugby , last year 's Grand Slam coach Roger Uttley decided to forsake this season 's Paris showdown in favour of an altogether different sort of grunt-and-grind in Boston . |
| 4 | Corbett had dreaded this question , always knowing it would be asked . |
| 5 | An unfortunate allusion , thought McAllister nastily , who knew her Bible , and that the cock crowed after betrayal , and from what Matey had said this woman specialised in betrayal . |
| 6 | The prophet Ezekiel had given this oracle from God , looking ahead to the age of fulfilment : |
| 7 | I wondered if David had got this evening to catch a bottle of wine |
| 8 | But emigration to the United States had made this restriction anachronistic and so the Liberal government altered the law . |
| 9 | Eleanor had discussed this reaction with Nigel , hoping that he 'd volunteer to do all the phoning in future , but he just assured her that his marriage was an open one . |
| 10 | Captain Biggins had had this crew for fourteen missions now , few things had gone seriously wrong , and his skill and judgement were fully trusted . |
| 11 | Edward had met this challenge by invading Scotland , but he was unable to bring the enemy to battle . |
| 12 | Mr Chin had foreseen this difficulty and made sure that no child had majority control of any of the family companies . |
| 13 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 14 | So this is a major complication and I think this shows why Freud had to introduce this second model of the mind , because in his first model of the mind it was very simple and repression was the force that distinguished conscious from unconscious . |
| 15 | Giles tried to refuse this gift , but the old man only laughed and smiled . |
| 16 | Kim worked to bring this party into a merger with the North Korean Communist Party ; this was accomplished in July 1946 with the formation of the North Korean Workers Party . |
| 17 | Milton and Pooley had had this ritual described fully to them , graphically and with actions , but it still held great fascination . |
| 18 | Zen had watched this cycle a dozen times or more when he felt a touch on his shoulder and turned to find Gilberto grinning up at him . |
| 19 | Dr McNab had asked this question with a smile . |
| 20 | Mrs Curdle had learnt this handicraft as a young girl and was an expert . |
| 21 | To begin with Darwin had solved this problem by invoking geographical isolation . |
| 22 | Ginny had driven this route dozens of times , in the last year to Paulstock and before that eight miles further south to Carinish Court , which lay in a fold of the hills on the Paulstock side of Abbotsfield . |
| 23 | Until recently very few Europeans and hardly anyone from England had visited this area and they did not appear to have had any previous requests from foreign visitors for information , visits to courts or access to their prisons . |
| 24 | On this occasion the Bank of Ireland refused to accept this Independent Third Party decision and has now appealed the case to the Circuit Court . |
| 25 | Requests by bureaux for the supply of CPAG 's Supplementary Benefit and Family Income Supplement by John Mesher had been increasing and so the IPG decided to use this opportunity to survey which reference books the bureaux used in practice as social security reference books . |
| 26 | As his course of study at the School of Architecture , University of Manchester , demanded a period of practical training in an architect 's office , William Assheton decided to spend this time working in Coventry so that in his spare time he could design and supervise the conversion of the chapel into a dwelling for his own use . |
| 27 | The USSR had linked this request to the developing situation in Iran and the danger of United States ' intervention to rescue the American being held hostage . |
| 28 | So , for thirty years Alfred Glynn had preserved this room as it had been when he still believed that the silk counterpane and the eiderdown would be the covers on his marriage bed . |
| 29 | Leon had done this bit before . |
| 30 | Morris had learnt this aid to survival many years ago from Sir Fitzroy Maclean . |