Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now the mix-up we had yesterday , er on a lot of aggro when I got about this dust extract system one line three . |
| 4 | There were six miles of gauntlet to run before reaching the open sea , and some damaged craft limped through this passage while others were still able to set off at some speed , making smoke cover with their special equipment . |
| 5 | There was such regret , such a bleakness in his eyes that Lissa turned away , her soul crying out in anguish because it was plain for anyone to see how much he cared for this woman who had betrayed him . |
| 6 | So I got aboard this cab , and the guy said , Buddy where do you want to go to ? |
| 7 | For the media clamouring for every sensational scrap of information about Kylie — good or bad — the troubles she endured during this period were mass circulation manna from heaven . |
| 8 | We were given to understand that you asked for this article . ’ |
| 9 | Erm now councillor and I asked for this matter to be brought to this chamber because erm we felt that the matter w was important enough that all members of this council should have an opportunity to debate it . |
| 10 | What we do know is that I M R O asked for this information in June nineteen eighty-eight and not long afterwards I M R O granted recognition to B I M and other Maxwell Companies , all the more surprising perhaps having raised the questions whether the question must come about , did they continue with their investigation , or did they let the matter drop and perhaps you might to comment in that context . |
| 11 | In the statement Freud made about this activity , he sometimes avoided the errors of his own account of the scientific nature of psychoanalysis . |
| 12 | There is a footnote from the editors : ‘ We now unreservedly withdraw any recommendation we made about this book . ’ |
| 13 | He has winged his way across the world in pursuit of his hobby , a mission that has included Venezuela , Thailand , Africa and Israel among others — with Costa Rica planned for this year . |
| 14 | The travellers were trying to get into a rock festival at Long Marston airfield near Stratford on Avon planned for this weekend.Roads around the site were blocked by the travellers as they confronted the police for most of the night . |
| 15 | This mechanism explains why measurements made during the quarter following the eruption indicate significant O 3 increases in the mid-stratosphere , whereas observations ( J. W. Waters , personal communication ) made after this period do not show any significant changes in that region . |
| 16 | He wandered about this neck of the woods and he was quite harmless , he was fond of children . |
| 17 | If you are not feeling as well as you did at the beginning of the week , go back to the Stage I diet for two or three days ; your weight should fall again if it rose during this week . |
| 18 | Although already gravely ill , she posed for this graduation picture just days before losing her battle against cancer . |
| 19 | A few years before he died he posed for this effigy , placing the completed picture in his room , adjacent to his bed , as a memento mori . |
| 20 | AS THE deadline approached for this quarter 's issue of Wood News , there was a certain amount of nervousness at John Wood House , since only a few stories had come through from our new network of Correspondents . |
| 21 | The invention of the zodiac , the belt round the sky in which the sun , moon , and planets lie , also occurred about this time . |
| 22 | The card background I used for this photo frame was an extremely pale peachy pink , on which I placed some rose leaves , heuchera flowers and green spiky leaves , with ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ and ‘ Yesterday ’ roses forming the central focus . |
| 23 | The Seagate drives I used for this article required 2 jumper connections made on the master drive , and all the connectors removed from the slave drive … |
| 24 | Some serious incidents occurred during this period on the Broadwater Farm Estate , such as an attack on police by youths which resulted in one officer sustaining a bad head wound , and there was also a series of attacks on an Asian-owned supermarket . |
| 25 | Sixty two cases of occupationally acquired tuberculosis occurred during this period . |
| 26 | There was a peak of deaths , which you can see quite clearly , which occurred during this period . |
| 27 | Nothing gilded about this youth today . |
| 28 | But in the light of the collapse of the Berlin Wall , which occurred after this book was completed and sent to my publishers , we have changed its title to Britain 's Defence Dilemma : An |
| 29 | The labour cost of this work would be presented to the Camphill Building Fund as our gift/donation . |
| 30 | We acknowledge the generous financial support of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths and the cooperation of the parents , health professionals , and interpreters who contributed towards this research . |