Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He could also play a variety of instruments ( and passed on this ability to his children ) and knew songs and melodies which had never been written down — just passed on from ear to ear via generations of Dalesmen .
2 I hope you 'll pick out what 's got to come from the East Midlands National airport , can I remind you that a list of that has already been made and passed by this council when there was not a Conservative majority and that had on it about seventy traffic calming schemes bottlenecks 'll be done all over this county which in themselves save accidents and save lives .
3 ‘ I messed around with it and got into this thing of splitting up the amps because I always thought that the guitar was a bit flat in mono .
4 a purely modern translation , what could you use for windows of heaven , and Niall is suggesting clouds , the clouds were stopped , the an and stopped in this sense means closed , the windows of heaven were closed .
5 It has successfully developed and operated a port at Sheerness in Kent and drew on this experience in deciding to develop a commercial port in the easternmost portion of the old dockyard .
6 These readers , the assumption might run , are at ease with the complexities of rhythm and vision , pattern and play , and united by this ease are free to discriminate more and more finally the detail of the smallest fragment or the structure or the entire work .
7 The Indian woman was born in Kerala , Southern India , and came to this country when she was six .
8 Yeah that 's , that 's okay it 's just er I mean I would like to feel you would introduce me if they actually knocked on the door and came in this evening otherwise they 'd think would n't you , I mean
9 This means that all users who may be affected by the SPR are notified of its existence via the Mail System , and that a particular user is nominated to respond to the SPR and informed of this responsibility via the Mail System .
10 One man was outside , two were sitting inside , the men were completely black , so black trousers , black hats and they had a black cape over it , over their faces so you could n't see who they were , and one of them just had this gun in his hand , and fired at this Citroen here located .
11 Money is lent and borrowed in this way on the interbank market .
12 I did the er there was a an ambulance came down the road in front of a bus you see , and a chap which was on the cor , side the road and he he went like this so I stopped and the ambulance came round and turned into this building site and I and while we were sitting there bang !
13 Er certainly the , the people who worked and flew from this field er gather distinction , honour and glory unto themselves for their er .
14 She had come to London after the war as a music student , and felt by this time she was neither Canadian or English .
15 ‘ I bought it as a deposit on another car and went on this journey for a reason , ’ he said .
16 And before I went to school on the Monday , drove back down the marsh and went in this forest trying to find it .
17 Miller only credited Bartram with a few plants in the Dictionary : Lilium philadelphum , ‘ at present very rare in English gardens ’ , Toxicodendron serratum , ‘ not yet flowered ’ and Veratrum americanum , another rarity which had in a good season both flowered and seeded in this country .
18 Also shown are the regions of the c-Jun protein which were expressed in E.coli and assayed in this report .
19 Finch lost his head and said to this woman whose fastidiousness he most revered , ‘ You would n't lie about your own age , that 's the thing . ’
20 After having worked as a medic and observed first-hand the horrors of war , Beckmann began to produce ambitious paintings with religious themes and continued in this vein until the early 1920s .
21 In the early 1970s he became Manager Hops and continued in this role for the remainder of his career at Park Royal .
22 In 1887 he was appointed district surveyor for Charlton , Lee , and Kidbrooke under the Metropolitan board of works and continued in this post under the London county council .
23 The traditional explanation is that all mothers with colicky babies — regardless of what sort of people they are or what else is happening in their lives — suddenly become more confident and relaxed at this point .
24 Like the pun in The Languages of Love and the concept of a variable reality in The Sycamore Tree , a discursive practice that is devalued and stigmatized in this novel is later used as a tool for exploring the practices and attitudes it represents .
25 Ur was amongst the cities they conquered and sacked at this time .
26 The time , the effort and the loving dedication of those who conceived and carried through this project to completion make us , the Three-Ninetieth , sincerely grateful and humbly thankful to each and everyone of you , our friends .
27 Then the secretory rate declined during second and third hours to the level of about 15–20 mg/30 minutes and remained at this level during the fourth and fifth hour of caerulein infusion .
28 As late Anglo-Saxon rulers were often required to give undertakings of this sort at their coronations , Cnut was possibly crowned and anointed at this time .
29 Erm , cos I just thought he was guessing , you know , and he said he says , I did n't see him , he said I only saw him and pointed to this girl over the other side of the room he was standing beside you when you were in the chair .
30 Like the Australian marsupial Myrmecobius , it has a long and pointed snout , extremely long and pointed in this case , and an extremely long sticky tongue .
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