Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sheer numbers involved also ruled out this technique . |
| 2 | Mr Kumar made comments about referee Roger Wiseman , who asked not to officiate again this season after being struck on the head by a fan when trouble erupted at the end of Birmingham 's Third Division game against Stoke on Feb 29 . |
| 3 | ‘ As the other dressers have vanished , you 'd better stay up this end and make yourself very visible . |
| 4 | I 'd better get out this side I think . |
| 5 | The Lady Jinneth went out riding alone this afternoon , and she has not yet come back . |
| 6 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 7 | Many people did not fill in this section and others made positive comments which are duplicated elsewhere |
| 8 | So far , the ministry has chosen not to explain why it did not act over this matter , to admit that it made a mistake , and to fully compensate all those who have suffered trauma and considerable financial losses as a result of its negligence . |
| 9 | Well I actually rang them up to say , why why are you taking my wages into consideration , I did n't break up this marriage , I met him a long time afterwards an I was told by a C S A agent or clerk or whatever , that my wedding was nonessential spending . |
| 10 | Now like I said before , I did n't break up this marriage , so this is a witch hunt against people like myself , second wives , second partners . |
| 11 | They did n't carry out this threat , but in February the terrible Captain Albert of the Sicherheitsdienst , whose headquarters were in the Via Walter Bianchi in Parma , captured more than twenty partisan leaders after subjecting a number of other captives to agonizing tortures . |
| 12 | Mind , she did n't go out this afternoon cos they went , some of them went up to the British Legion Club this afternoon . |
| 13 | She did n't know where this conversation was leading , but gut feeling told her that she could bank on the destination 's being rather unpleasant . |
| 14 | Half of them did n't turn up this morning — the ones who 're probably illegal immigrants and the ones who 're afraid of being blown up . |
| 15 | She was the only one who did n't keep up this nonsense about Nora being dead … |
| 16 | ‘ We had all risen early this morning . |
| 17 | Well yesterday apparently he told her that she had better turn up this morning cos of her excuses . |
| 18 | It 's two nil to Notts , it 's stuff here because Tony scored and he had n't scored previously this season when he banged one in on eight minutes . |
| 19 | He had recently taken over this region , which had previously been subject to the Ptolemies in Egypt . |