Example sentences of "[adv] to this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It certainly continued to give opportunity for glory , for self-advancement , and for material gain ; in that respect it has not changed much to this day . |
| 2 | One can not be so clear when considering other mosaics which appear to owe much to this manner of arrangement and depiction . |
| 3 | Sadly , Jimmy died in 1989 , but all of the achievements owe much to this dear , departed , friend . |
| 4 | She fell silent , unable to speak openly — especially to this man — of the torment writhing within her . |
| 5 | American and European children had been known to respond well enough to this form of words and schooled Wolof children did so too . |
| 6 | However , because all the seismic stations have been placed on the near side the wave speeds down to this depth only reliably apply to the near side . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Turkish police have tracked her down to this resort . |
| 8 | We ca n't go on paying ourselves that sort of money , we ca n't go on , and Mr I know in a minute we 'll talk about the number of people who attend committee meetings erm and sit in on them , and that 's increased considerably , erm , so I think it 's important that we do get down to this problem , we grasp the nettle , and I , I believe that will mean that we start to look seriously at reducing the number of times members come and talk here , and perhaps we let the officers get on with the action that they should be getting on with |
| 9 | And the pensioners go down to this bungalow free , and it 's in lovely spot and we gave something like two thousand pound for it . |
| 10 | In a country as large as Australia the need for transportation fuels is paramount and even to keep growth down to this level will mean continuing efforts at economy by use of smaller cars and the replacement of oil-fired by coal-fired power stations . |
| 11 | never thought I 'd get down to this level . |
| 12 | ’ Then send it down to this position to pick me up ’ . |
| 13 | And I went down to this bird 's down by the library two weeks ago and this same fella came in with a gram and he was like that , giving out big smokes . |
| 14 | Well surely some of that might filter down to this chamber . |
| 15 | On the way to Upper Halling we find that the names have come down to us unaltered , to our right we have Yew Tree Kill , which has disappeared into the chalk quarry , also the Vicarage Close , further on and still on our right is Foxes ' Hole , a name that has continued down to this day . |
| 16 | This is a fax I want you to send to Ian in Aiden Mouth and it reads as follows good afternoon Ian , at long last I 've been able to get down to this memo of yours , dated the thirtieth alt can you please let me know the actual deliveries ' figures in the first part of this memo . |
| 17 | I just remember them wheeling me down to this room and going to sleep . |
| 18 | If we just go back to the plan in the future , erm , and we move down to this section here , let's look at the questions we 're asking . |
| 19 | But his thoughts were elsewhere , as he still could n't understand why the Academy would send anyone down to this class D planet . |
| 20 | But there there was no facilities for running on you see and when when we had to ride that one , the chair would come down to this inset ninety yards you see ? |
| 21 | Before we er knuckle down to this list , tell me , how m |
| 22 | ‘ I usually only scrub the front tyre when I get into a turn too hot but this is how it goes : You 're in fourth gear and jetting down to this U-turn . |
| 23 | ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own . |
| 24 | But Prince is either too frivolous or too religious for his flighty fancies to be pinned down to this discourse of responsibility and constructive intervention . |
| 25 | And if you also look the most the the the clearest change that 's happened on the outside of this building , if you look at that window , if you if you follow the edge of the window the original window came all the way down to this point , and then across and up , and this has been all blocked up . |
| 26 | This process takes place just as much in the context of legislating as in connection with other procedures which appear to lend themselves more obviously to this end . |
| 27 | He asked those interested or intrigued by the idea to pray as to whether God might be calling them personally to this work . |
| 28 | I was sort of hoping any other people who were interested in standing for re-election might have came along to this Committee to show their |
| 29 | Well it seems like that 's hoping for pie in the sky , though , because there 's first of all not enough money , and I do n't think that teachers are that good at well talking about their own emotions , and I asked the Oxfordshire County Council Education Department to send someone along to this programme , and they said ‘ I 'm sorry , there 's no-one to send ’ . |
| 30 | By the late 1930s it had been converted to a dwelling and remains so to this day . |