Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Posts in Britain were normally filled in this way , and people in London would have said that appointing officials in the colonies in a different way would have implied that the colonies were not a normal part of the British structure of government , People in America would have replied that the colonial structure of government was different in one important way because the colonists paid the taxes for these official salaries . |
| 2 | The Alsatians , their thick pelts soaked and steaming , had sniffed with some certainty around a little icon of the Virgin which stood by the roadside , sheltered from the rain by a stone arch , but after that they had rambled unhappily this way and that and returned whining to their handlers , who were knee-deep in mud , soaked to the skin and cursing roundly . |
| 3 | It was not outsiders who began and brutally carried on this war . |
| 4 | His Auntie ( Mothers sister ) lived most of her life in Harwell village , having come down this way to do domestic service . |
| 5 | Should n't 've come down this way . |
| 6 | However , the likelihood is that processing and seeking will be entirely overlapped so this will not hold up the overall run very seriously . |
| 7 | Having won already this season on the main tour ( as well as a senior event in Japan ) , he believes he has it in him to do so again , though not to wipe the slate clean after his defeat in a play-off against Nick Faldo in 1990 . |
| 8 | IMPRESSED just this side of awe as I am by the Department of Transport and its fearless tackling of such problems as juggernaut lorries and EEC regulations , I must nevertheless confess some disquiet about a recent plan . |
| 9 | Even by Labour standards the pantomime season has come early this year . |
| 10 | And he has come home this morning worn out with experience , all grief and all wonder , because she gave him the psaltery on which he played to her , and sent him a message straight out of the jongleurs ’ romances . |
| 11 | Its report , which is expected early this year and will be widely available , makes several recommendations which if accepted will improve the transition from full time to flexible working . |
| 12 | Hearings are expected early this year , and if approved , are expected to be contested in the federal court . |
| 13 | These cards are well mixed up this time are n't they ? |
| 14 | Support for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and ODBC specification will be added later this year . |
| 15 | They 've rung up this morning and apologized . |
| 16 | They 've rung up this morning and apologized . |
| 17 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 18 | rung up this morning still not there |
| 19 | It was a year since he had come up this steep , winding avenue . |
| 20 | I tell you what , car 's a bit frozen up this morning |
| 21 | Having looked up this jargonistic word in our dictionary , we found it to mean ‘ Instruction : The art of science of teaching ’ . |
| 22 | She 's just picked up this bloomin' nice bunch from her co-stars in a new London play . |
| 23 | It was the usual sequence : we 'd picked up this batch from the mass grave , in the woods , and stood waiting by the van on the approach road while the carbon monoxide went about its work . |
| 24 | It 's not picked up this . |
| 25 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |
| 26 | I mean I would n't want to give away how it all works , but you have actually won five times and so how much have you actually picked up this season ? |
| 27 | Approximately 30,000 was the average crowd in the season 1937–8 and cup games often attracted double this number . |
| 28 | A decision is expected later this month . |
| 29 | The new controller is expected to improve performance but not add functionality ; a controller capable of handling arrays is expected later this year . |
| 30 | Availability is expected later this year . |