Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I seriously considered disembowelling Ian for this , but on reflection that would be a little harsh . |
| 2 | He had his own exchequer at Marlborough for this purpose , and accounted at the Westminster Exchequer for transactions there . |
| 3 | When the 820 was finally accepted , the old channel cables and 600J were removed — this had to be completed 31 March as this was the date when the lease on the old machine expired . |
| 4 | Leyhill prison on the Gloucestershire Avon border is as far from the popular conception of a jail as you can get.Modern buildings cluster around borders boasting blooms that many public parks would be hard pressed to match.Leyhill is an open prison … the last port of call for inmates nearing the end of their sentences.A hundred prisoners work on the nearly forty acres of lawns , borders and market gardens.Their skills won them a silver medal at Chelsea for this display of garden design.And at Leyhill , they 've created a spectacular show … with drifts of brightly coloured pelargoniums competing for attention with giant cannas … and a fine show of roses.New borders are being created all the time … giving the prisoners an opportunity to express themselves and learn techniques that could help them go straight when they 're released : |
| 5 | MCC REBELS , furious at the non-selection of David Gower for this winter 's tour of India , last night forced the famous club into a humiliating and expensive special general meeting to pass a vote of no confidence in the England Test selectors . |
| 6 | Based this year at Windscale and played on British Nuclear Fuels ' Falcon Club ground at Egremont , the teams travelled as far and wide as Dounreay , Harwell and Winfrith for this popular one day event . |
| 7 | All railcards can be issued so that South Shropshire people no longer need go to Shrewsbury or Hereford for this purpose . |
| 8 | ( I am indebted to Jill de Villiers for this example . ) |
| 9 | Leigh had made it clear to Olivier during this time of her mental illness that she no longer loved him , and Olivier was well aware that his wife wanted to be with Finchie . |
| 10 | After a series of tests , Fireater successfully gained approval and a specification from TML for this installation . |
| 11 | Twice I asked Ward about this , the first time just after we had come out of the cloud on the eastern slope of the pass and had caught our first glimpse of Cajamarca far away in the valley below , and then again when we stopped at the Baños del Inca to ask our way , the hot springs steaming beside the public baths . |
| 12 | What about private transport in Caldmore about this time , how was , what was that ? |
| 13 | So I think he 's sitting there in Wolverhampton about this time wondering what on earth he is |
| 14 | Last March he suffered a second agonising defeat in the Gold Cup when Cool Ground proved just too good , and he then lost his French crown when the ground at Auteuil for this July 's Grand Steeplechase came up unsuitably soft and he could only struggle round in eighth place . |
| 15 | I am grateful to Mr. Chris Smyth of the VCT for this information . |
| 16 | When I spoke to Silver Reed about this ( some months ago ) they were n't sure whether this would cost the knitter extra . |
| 17 | The relatively detailed information in the annals and in the correspondence of Alcuin for this phase of the reign of Eardwulf enables us to perceive more clearly than is usually the case the way in which an attempt to challenge a Northumbrian king could embrace both internal dissent and external interference . |
| 18 | Its numerical value is the same as that calculated by Inglis for this critical point , though one should not attach too much importance to the exact numerical values in any of this work since all the presuppositions are approximations . |
| 19 | Perhaps he should inform Jahsaxa Penumbra about this unusual datafile residing in the city 's bowels , and then , perhaps not . |
| 20 | ‘ I used to make a lot of comments to David about this friend . |
| 21 | Erm I went , I was telling David about this in the car , I went down to Nottingham to and recorded , I 've got an hour of recording from erm an organisation meeting |
| 22 | Last year Philips petitioned Brussels for this price rise , without even telling Sony , the Japanese company that helped it develop the digital disc system . |
| 23 | Burn told Stanhope about this , but the judges chose to ignore the concerted view of the architects . |
| 24 | Rescheduled for this year is Der Krakauer Marienaltar von Veit Stoss by Michael Stuhr ( DM168 ) . |
| 25 | There has been conflict about access from the Meadowell through this development to Percy Main and , remarkably , the Labour-controlled authority have agreed to this being blocked off . |
| 26 | At Pitton during this New Year interlude we were able to satisfy some of our suppressed gastronomic longings by the intemperate consumption of farm eggs butter and cheese — off the ration , at times , in the country — and also of decontaminated sugar , salvaged from poison-gas experiments at Porton Down , and used to make excellent ‘ tablet ’ , as we call it in Scotland . |
| 27 | I can only assume that the NI went to press before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait for this important factor to have been omitted . |
| 28 | A 35.5 cm high Egyptian quartzite bust of Senbef , a court official in the reign of King Psamtik I , has been sent over from the United States for this two-day sale of Antiquities and is estimated to fetch £600–800,000 ( $1.1–1.5m ) . |
| 29 | It is , therefore , of particular significance to Lafayette as this new range , which took one year to develop , is launched into the market place . |
| 30 | Anyway I talked to Ann about this this morning and we 've come to the decision to leave it on because that 's what we did in the in the erm |