Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play tottered on like this for a quarter of an hour . |
| 2 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 3 | She burbled on like this , feeling dismally she was not helping herself , while Mrs Whitfield sat , eyes lowered , pricking out a pattern with the tip of her ballpoint on the top left-hand corner of Alice 's form . |
| 4 | Now we got on to this the other day does anybody remember that ? |
| 5 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 6 | Many builders of smaller houses in the Cotswolds clung on to this much-loved style which they had so perfected . |
| 7 | On rehearsal , when our cue came through , we heard him say ‘ I am a sea-gull at the Port of Vancouver ’ instead of the ‘ Fitzpatrick Travelogue ’ script agreed on for this part of the show . |
| 8 | Although the flats are very compact , generally following the standards laid down for this type of housing in DoE Design Bulletin 29 , they share the facilities of a jetty on to the river , and a roof-top conservatory and roof garden , all of which were made possible by a £200,000 grant from the Historic Buildings Council . |
| 9 | If you deviate substantially and importantly from the conditions laid down in this letter of engagement , we will be free to terminate the engagement by immediate notice at any time and to engage additional and/or alternative directors to perform some or all of the functions set out here . |
| 10 | If you deviate substantially and importantly from the conditions laid down in this letter of engagement , we will be free to terminate the engagement by immediate notice at any time and to engage additional and/or alternative directors to perform some or all of the functions set out here . |
| 11 | If you deviate substantially and importantly from the conditions laid down in this letter of engagement , we will be free to terminate the engagement by immediate notice at any time and to engage additional and/or alternative directors to perform some or all of the functions set out here . |
| 12 | The job description shall be consistent with the contractual duties laid down in this agreement . |
| 13 | ( I ) The desirability of contesting the constituency for parliament shall be considered by the Executive Committee of this party in consultation with the National Executive Committee or its officers prior to the procedure laid down in this clause being set in motion . |
| 14 | The standard of care laid down in this case has been doubted in subsequent cases . |
| 15 | Many of the rules laid down by this syndicat in 1904 were later taken as the basic framework around which the AOC regulations for Champagne were formulated in 1927 . |
| 16 | Applying the principles laid down by this House in American Cyanamid Co. v. Ethicon Ltd. [ 1975 ] A.C. 396 , he first asked himself whether there was a serious question to be tried ; he held that there was , the question being whether or not the facts were such that section 47 was incompatible with article 30 . |
| 17 | She grumbled on in this vein as she prepared the food and I ran about as the scullion . |
| 18 | The research reported on in this book consisted of semi-structured , tape-recorded interviews with ninety-six students ( forty-eight male , forty-eight female ) , and twelve members of academic staff , in three different institutions . |
| 19 | Not for a moment did his eyes sweep around the mountain heights which everywhere peered down on this upturned basin of ancient civilisation . |
| 20 | I might add that the TV cameras moved in on this ! |
| 21 | ‘ Afterwards I moved in with this neighbour . |
| 22 | I flew Dawn once more and this time she crashed down near this particular boy 's feet . |
| 23 | In the final quarter of an hour more than forty parties drew up in this same agitation ; and the closer they were to the final minute , the wilder their excitement to give in their cards . |
| 24 | It seems that the quality of information built up through this kind of rating is different from that collected during more detached observations . |
| 25 | I did n't discover the first snail or the first nettle that sprouted up on this planet . |
| 26 | She drew back at this . |
| 27 | In the event , the General Council drew back from this extreme policy and the outcome was that , after months of violence and intense bitterness , George Ward won his point and unions were excluded from the Grunwick plant . |
| 28 | In January , as expected , Vaclav Havel moved back into this office when he was confirmed as President of the new Czech Republic . |
| 29 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 30 | When some boys at the school put excrement under the headmaster 's chair , he contrasted the culprits unfavourably with true school sportsmen : ‘ Last Friday I was feeling pretty low when I found out about this lot … but then I went to football on Saturday , there were several lads and teachers there , playing their hearts out or giving up their time just for the school , and then I thought , ‘ Perhaps , it 's not so bad after all . ’ |