Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun sg] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made the mistake this morning of trying to squeeze in er before I came here to just cl try and clear another task . |
| 2 | Jamie and Becky Blandford made the announcement this morning , just two years after their wedding.The Marquis 's solicitors say they have entered what is described as a period of separation in their marriage.Their first child is due in August . |
| 3 | But , read the chapter this way or that , if there was ever a case for recognising that unions have a right to share in the management of companies , that case depended critically upon a general expectation — amounting to a near-certainty — that , rather than give primacy to their sectional interests , unions would and could act in the general interest whenever it was necessary or desirable for them to do so . |
| 4 | that 's right because they 've just released papers after thirty years of work that he was doing for the M O D he was actually doing it in his role as a member of the P R flight , Beaver Brooke sold the government this idea |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't know much else about him — only got the message this afternoon . ’ |
| 6 | We only got the message this morning " |
| 7 | Plans for the biggest private housing development in Europe finally got the go-ahead this afternoon . |
| 8 | I got the reminder this morning . |
| 9 | He wondered then , if the others who had remained on Earth experienced the void this way . |
| 10 | And he phoned , and he phoned the pub this afternoon and he says I 'm not coming in to work tonight . |
| 11 | I actually used the phrase this motion is the death- knell of the block vote , and the beginning of individual voting of trade union members within the part Party . |
| 12 | But who knows out of the 20,000 people who visited the event this year , there may be similar people to my brother and me who enjoy music to the full and who could be in the top three next year ! |
| 13 | Chris Parry , whose home is in Welshpool , received the accolade this week for his stage lighting of the musical , Tommy . |
| 14 | MPS TOLD the government this week that it should increase spending on research into road maintenance at the Transport and Road Research Laboratory ( TRRL ) . |
| 15 | Three Democratic senators , all supporters of Mr Clinton , told The Economist this week that Ms Guinier could not be confirmed . |
| 16 | Mid Southern 's head of operations Colin Nice told the Herald this week that water supply is the same as last year , but that if next winter is as dry as the last , there would be problems . |
| 17 | ‘ I would like to think that eventually there will be a game there each Sunday morning , ’ he told the Herald this week . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , there have been occasions over the past four years when my morale has been very low , ’ he told The Bookseller this week . |
| 19 | She turned the slate this way and that , trying to understand the curious markings scratched on its black-green surface , wondering idly which part of the walls the slate had fallen from . |
| 20 | So our having the tape-recorder is affecting the quality of Mrs Padmore 's life — which , however , has an indirect effect on the quality of our life , given the I think not unreasonable premise that an improvement in the quality of someone else 's life offers us some kind of pleasure or satisfaction , or at any rate spares us discomfort or guilt ; though whether this is what I had in mind when I borrowed the tape-recorder this morning I think unlikely . |
| 21 | They threw the acid this time — only at the wall , to burn the paper — so I could see it , you know ? |
| 22 | Hungarians understand perfectly well that this may be due to internal Romanian reasons — the Romanian army had played some part in the initial repression in Timisoara , but since it joined the rebellion this fact has been conveniently forgotten . |
| 23 | The goings on and comings off that stunned the world this week . |
| 24 | ‘ I smelled it when I opened the cupboard this morning . ’ |
| 25 | But a representative from owner Khalid Abdulla 's team walked the course this morning before the decision was reached . |
| 26 | VAUXHALL defied the recession this year by breaking production records . |
| 27 | The Yard released the news this morning . ’ |
| 28 | A total of 39 British players started the week this year , and not a single one got past the 3rd round . |
| 29 | A NEWSLETTER for taxi-drivers hit the road this week . |
| 30 | ‘ When I thanked you just now , by the way , it was because you got me out of the boat before I hit the water this time . ’ |