Example sentences of "[adv] this [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fran stiffened , glaring up at him , hating him for his cool self-assurance , but he ignored the look as his hands tightened painfully around her waist in a silent warning not to do anything silly , before he spoke again , louder this time for the benefit of their audience . |
| 2 | Things have not gone right this year for the colt dubbed a new ‘ Champion the Wonder Horse ’ after his last-to-first victory in the Breeders ' Cup Juve-nile 10 months ago . |
| 3 | Eventually this perversion of the natives , way of life led to their dependence upon Russian provisions — grain , bread , sugar , tea , and tobacco . |
| 4 | members of the Government ( including Law Officers and junior Ministers ) who felt unable , on grounds of conscience , to vote against the abolition of the death penalty should abstain from voting in the Divisions to be taken on this issue in the proceedings on the Criminal Justice Bill . |
| 5 | Erm first of all can I put the county on notice to er respond later on this afternoon to the thesis expanded by Professor Lock that er it might be tenable to start calculating employment land requirements based on numbers of employed or numbers in employment or desired ai or employment levels to be aimed at , er and coupled with that , is there anything in the figures which they have produced in either their submission or and and its appendices which actually might form a basis for that sort of calculation ? |
| 6 | I admired the way she took on this part of the world and conquered it . ’ |
| 7 | The simple statistical confirmation that the majority of them were from 1984 onwards — and probably from that particular Friday , though one can not be certain — in the skies above the Pacific Ocean was ( for me and I suspect for most who came to know ) the first and final affirmation that from now on this part of the world was the centre of things . |
| 8 | I The committee decided to pass on this information to the editor of Out On Strike , the strikers " newsletter , to use at his discretion . |
| 9 | We would be most unwise to take on this role in the current economic climate . |
| 10 | Unless you have women 's bodies floating down this part of the river all the time . ’ |
| 11 | I suspected the trip had to do with the company shutting down this section of the stageline ; Mr. Mendez would see Delgado about closing his station and take an inventory of company property . |
| 12 | ‘ There were houses all down this side of the street once , ’ said Mrs Darne , ‘ but they were bombed in the war . |
| 13 | ‘ He was coming down this path from the ferry , and here he was struck down as he passed by . |
| 14 | Perhaps this surrender to the invading power of God 's Spirit , this willingness for him to take us and break us and use us , IS one of the prime lessons which the charismatic movement throughout the churches is teaching us at the present time . |
| 15 | But perhaps this celebration of the exotic cultural/racial other is merely the counterpart of the racist 's demonizing of the other ? |
| 16 | Then , again inevitably , we turn away for another change of view , perhaps this time towards the Propylaea and Nike Apteros . |
| 17 | So this notion of the evidence of one 's senses is held by empiricists to be basic in epistemology , and also to be basic in the theory of meaning . |
| 18 | The clearers tell the Bank of England of their target balances so this influence on the money market cash position will be known with reasonable certainty . |
| 19 | so this memento of the artist at the height of his powers makes a welcome return to the catalogue , sounding finer still on CD . |
| 20 | They did so this time without the usual , drum-beating , bugleblowing support of a packed ground that Vivian Richards had identified as a vital source of inspiration to his teams . |
| 21 | So this application under the Convention is dismissed . |
| 22 | All this adds up to the likelihood that the Government can not sort out the economy in the very short term and certainly can not do so this side of the general election ; they can not generate the feeling of happiness and cheerfulness about the economy which parties traditionally rely upon to win general elections . |
| 23 | ‘ Good , now I just want you to save me and yourself a lot of trouble by filling in this form for the Red Cross . ’ |
| 24 | Yet the study of non verbal communication — body language , gestures , facial expressions , proximity — was initiated only this century as the fields of sociology , socio biology and socio psychology developed . |
| 25 | HWIM and Hearsay-II focus the search by predicting the words on either side of a seed word found bottom-up ; only this subset of the lexicon is matched against the phoneme graph . |
| 26 | Oz , he thought , might be Private Eye all over again only this time without the smart-alec Shrewsbury and Oxford public school boys putting down grammar school boys with ideas above their station . |
| 27 | Only this time without the guns . |
| 28 | Is this nothing more than the perennial appearance of uneven development , one of the principal diagnostic phenomena of capitalism , only this time at the intra-urban rather than a regional or national scale ? |
| 29 | His head dipped and his teeth nipped again , only this time at the vulnerable baby-soft flesh of her inner thighs . |
| 30 | Well yes there 's only only this time of the year that they 're about so I think they must only grow them there that make the best marmalade . |