Example sentences of "and [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRAVE Princess Diana put two weeks of torment behind her yesterday … and beamed this smile of relief . |
| 2 | To help you beat the irritation of bites and stings this summer , we have a 100 bottles of Stingose to give away . |
| 3 | One MEP has calculated that if you start with £100 in Britain and change this sum successively into each of the Community s eleven currencies , you would only have £50 by the final transaction . |
| 4 | They took a prominent part in the repulse of the Austrian attack in this sector in June 1918 , and countered this attack by raids on Austrian positions , in which they took several hundred prisoners . |
| 5 | You must have a sound knowledge of the life cycles , nutrition , and management of the different species of animals on your farm , and develop this skill to a point where you can notice , almost instinctively , the slightest signs that a beast is off-colour . |
| 6 | All levels relate to and interact with all others , and in 12 , we shall consider activities which practise and develop this relationship . |
| 7 | That is to say , Libyans whose families had settled in the cities some generations before were perhaps exempt from this process ; but the majority of Libyans made their history in the same way , and shared this picture of the past . |
| 8 | Unless a really short-field ( e.g. a precautionary ) landing is required , the manual recommends using only 45 ° , and to confirm this a panel warning light illuminates once that setting has been exceeded . |
| 9 | Now Botswana could not cut itself off from South Africa during the long years of apartheid but Botswana did make clear that it opposed apartheid and voiced this very strongly and much to the annoyance often of the South African government . |
| 10 | The Labour government elected in 1974 decided to concentrate its housing resources on the needs of the inner city areas and coupled this with changes in the basis of the rate support grant which disadvantaged rural local authorities . |
| 11 | These are both recommendable performances : the Monte-Carlo orchestra , in particular , is on top form , and plays this familiar music for all its worth , so that it comes up as fresh as it must have sounded in St. Petersburg a century ago . |
| 12 | It 's an ‘ intelligent ’ harmoniser and plays this way to follow the commonest chord sequences without any programming . |
| 13 | Raise the leg a fraction higher and repeat this tiny movement 15 times , holding each raise for 1 second . |
| 14 | Click on the up arrow of the palette box to select 2 into the current colour box and repeat this process of selecting the shade for this colour . |
| 15 | Each episode had to end with a cliff-hanger and repeat this at the start of the next episode . |
| 16 | Because if you 're thinking of nipping back a century or two and uncreating this interesting aberration of yours , I think I 'd rather be somewhere else at the moment of uncreation , if it 's all the same to you . ’ |
| 17 | There was obviously some sort of sexual element to it but I just did n't know what to do next and expected this man , who was about two or three years older than me , to , in some way , tell me or indicate to me and so I followed him without talking to him . |
| 18 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
| 19 | So , we went along for , about five minutes , could n't pick anything up so we stopped and asked this , someone where Mo Monkey Island was . |
| 20 | He was beaten and he accepts it and thinks this sporting attitude will count in his favour next time . |
| 21 | On the face and neck this usually takes 2–3 days as these areas heal quickly and early removal helps to reduce scarring . |
| 22 | I cut a sheet up into 1cm squares and placed this in the bird cage . |
| 23 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 24 | Some time that same day , or the following one , the new Prime Minister has entrusted some study of strategy , or some strategic study of something else , to an outside expert — and by the 7th , as we know from Summerchild 's first letter , Wilson has somehow been persuaded to staff and service this new operation through the Government Commission . |
| 25 | He knew it would be useless to try and hinder this , she would be fidgety and fretful if there were dirty clothes about . |
| 26 | Patrick O'Brian , surely the most closely related of Marryat 's successors , understands very well that rare concomitant of the adventure story , the effective partnership of mind and body in action , and displays this in a continuing group of adult novels which give a notable unlaboured picture of the Nelson era . |
| 27 | We could say that the postmodern expression of the woman 's face is one that acknowledges itself as simulacrum and displays this without modesty . |
| 28 | They argue that the differential in living standards between the two groups is minimal and to see this as social mobility is to detract attention from the important fact that they are all part of the large urban poor whose poverty is due to the wider social formation and , in particular , the capitalist mode of production . |
| 29 | Generous merchants are rare beasts in the literature of any age , and to see this merchant 's generosity as entirely foolish , or purely representative of commercial self-interest , is to make a severe assumption . |
| 30 | Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself . |