Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Had the contract been simply for so many tons of potatoes of a particular quality then , although each party might have had in his mind when he made the contract this particular crop of potatoes , if they had all perished , the defendant would still have been bound to deliver the quantity contracted for . ’ |
| 2 | I made the mistake this morning of trying to squeeze in er before I came here to just cl try and clear another task . |
| 3 | Jamie and Becky Blandford made the announcement this morning , just two years after their wedding.The Marquis 's solicitors say they have entered what is described as a period of separation in their marriage.Their first child is due in August . |
| 4 | When using the pump this was reduced to about 10 minutes . |
| 5 | I did n't think anyone else would be using the pool this early . ’ |
| 6 | Of course , you see , it 's you that 's using the caravan this week so they can come here they can they ? |
| 7 | I could n't really see why he was n't given the chance this season ( apart from the last mins vs Swindon ) , |
| 8 | She was on the very first Dreamflight in 1987 as a leukaemia sufferer and was now back as a helper , having been given the all-clear this year . |
| 9 | Given the situation this is quite understandable . |
| 10 | Yet if we deny the creature this understanding , which even Clark himself seems to acknowledge , yet insist with him that it nonetheless fears death , then it is in the distinctly paradoxical position of fearing something of which it could not , in any sense , be aware . |
| 11 | ‘ When I introduce the film this evening you must say a few words too , ’ I said , and he agreed . |
| 12 | But he 's got to strip the bonnet so Dave said well I 'll get my lad to strip the bonnet this afternoon and er you know , few hundred quid for the day we 'll be glad to be able to finish off doing them and He 's got too many |
| 13 | His laser eye could strip paint off walls : ‘ England is Europe 's madhouse , poor , derelict and deprived ; where the rulers batten on an ignorant and regressive working class who are fed with the most tawdry material promises ; so insular that no-one is able to see the shit-house this country has become ’ . |
| 14 | It will be interesting to see the effect this has on homelessness . |
| 15 | But , read the chapter this way or that , if there was ever a case for recognising that unions have a right to share in the management of companies , that case depended critically upon a general expectation — amounting to a near-certainty — that , rather than give primacy to their sectional interests , unions would and could act in the general interest whenever it was necessary or desirable for them to do so . |
| 16 | that 's right because they 've just released papers after thirty years of work that he was doing for the M O D he was actually doing it in his role as a member of the P R flight , Beaver Brooke sold the government this idea |
| 17 | Such is the pulling power of Europe 's richest race , the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , that up to 10,000 Britons will make the journey this weekend , making a considerable impact in a total crowd of 35,000 . |
| 18 | Perhaps he should let Cora-Beth make the running this evening at his party . |
| 19 | However , if the draw is kind to Martinez , she could must make the final this year and then , who knows ? |
| 20 | Back to floating is hardly what one expects to hear from The Economist , which understands the threat this poses to Europe 's single market . |
| 21 | Whitaker ( 1979 : 229 ) clearly understands the way this rejection of training and education operates within the service : |
| 22 | Joe had once taken Rose Macaulay to a Billy Graham revivalist , fundamentalist mass meeting and been utterly revolted by all the rabid emotionalism and the militant Christianity , and he reminded me what Graham had said about Kinsey : ‘ It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America . ’ |
| 23 | Inexperience in the heavier , but more powerful Indycars aside , Mansell said he could face problems if Cyclone Roger , which has been lashing the coast this week , brings rain on race day . |
| 24 | Transforming the Information This requires you to understand the historian 's main argument , be able to separate main points from supporting detail and substitute your own key-words for the historian 's vocabulary . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't know much else about him — only got the message this afternoon . ’ |
| 26 | We only got the message this morning " |
| 27 | Plans for the biggest private housing development in Europe finally got the go-ahead this afternoon . |
| 28 | I got the reminder this morning . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't want the weddin' this way . ’ |
| 30 | He wondered then , if the others who had remained on Earth experienced the void this way . |