Example sentences of "[noun sg] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Macdonald made a series of quota quickies before going on to a larger budget with the striking comedy-thriller This Man is News ( 1938 ) , and Michael Powell built a reputation as a director of energetic quota films before making his mainstream début with Edge of the World ( 1937 ) , about the depopulation of a remote island in the Shetlands . |
| 2 | I do n't think I want to go in tent this time of year . |
| 3 | I thought we were doing we 're putting up tent this week and putting up a six tent next week and then |
| 4 | Today , it houses municipal authorities , and at ten o'clock last night a bell rang continuously from that direction — ‘ The curfew , ’ said the hotel porter this summer morning in 1991 . |
| 5 | and the drenching , mnemonic smell this brings us |
| 6 | He determined not to give Gina any housekeeping this week to make up for his losses . |
| 7 | At Beechgrove we have a well-established standard fuchsia , ‘ Dollar Princess ’ , with cerise sepals and a deep purple corolla , but Bill has done well in training a few new standards this summer and intends to give them early protection this year . |
| 8 | Mrs McCarthy said : ‘ Police protection this weekend will be at the highest level , particularly in view of the historic importance of the Cobham Hall buildings and grounds . ’ |
| 9 | Some attempt had been made to turn the area immediately in front of the door into a rose-arbour by the erection of a bit of trellis work at right angles to the wall , and he crouched behind the little protection this afforded . |
| 10 | The interest in CalMac is disproportionate to the size of its business ( 850 employees ) , the number of its customers ( mainly 29,370 inhabitants of the Western Isles , plus tourists ) or the amount of money it costs the exchequer : the company received a grant this year of £7.2m ( $12.7m ) , much the same as previous years . |
| 11 | ‘ Caught you on the hop this morning ! ’ said Postie . |
| 12 | WILLSFORD , whose careful preparation this season has been timed to bring him to his peak on Martell Grand National day , will carry maximum stable confidence at Liverpool today . |
| 13 | The B team are so determined they gave up holiday time and daily allowances to assemble for two days of intensive preparation this week in Cardiff . |
| 14 | So perhaps , a host of things to think about in terms of preparation , maybe not all of those are gon na be suitable , a relevant few , preparation this evening , but perhaps , if focusing in at least some of those , might help to give you the opportunity to persuade to influence your colleague . |
| 15 | Nigel came round on his new bike this morning . |
| 16 | Faldo has suffered a final round jinx this year and it would have finished in disaster had Norman 's putt fallen . |
| 17 | Are you going to make the appropriate concession this experienced director requires from you ? ’ |
| 18 | So we 'll sta er you do erm graduated assessment this afternoon , then we 'll start looking at erm , our assessment procedures we , you know S M P national curriculum and I mean , if you 're not around you know well |
| 19 | Tank Girl has no time for fantastic dreams , drinking , as she does , beer from bottles labelled Git This Down Ya Neck . |
| 20 | Sarah was n't slow on the uptake this time . |
| 21 | In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements . |
| 22 | Oracle Corp this week launched its Co-operative Development Environment , CDE , an integrated set of tools designed to enable organisations to create , deploy and maintain client-server applications . |
| 23 | Analog Devices Inc and Crystal Semiconductor Corp this week said that they have begun selling multimedia coder-decoder chips claimed to offer highly integrated single-chip advanced audio system functionality , designed in conjunction with Sun . |
| 24 | After 35 years as president of the company he founded back in 1957 , Ken Olsen will give up the reins at Digital Equipment Corp this October , aged 66 . |
| 25 | Newton said : ‘ I 'm really chuffed because this is the third goal I 've scored in half an hour as a striker this season . |
| 26 | ( PS This report does not constitute a reference . ) |
| 27 | By contrast , where there was a legacy sub modo this was impossible . |
| 28 | He did really well as a novice a year ago in some top class races in Ireland and , although he fell at the seventh in last year 's Gold Cup , he should be a more mature horse and a better jumper this season . |
| 29 | While Farr-Jones will be wearing the gold Australian jumper this year , it seems certain that flanker Simon Poidevin will be missing . |
| 30 | Carl is only 19 … he 's got the best record of any British jumper this season and in training has beaten Lyn Davies ' National Record of 8 metres 23 … |