Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we have seen , for example , the raw fact that an admission to care takes place as a result of a care order made by the court , and thus appears in official statistics as further evidence of compulsion , may tell us little about how this action is experienced either by the child or by his or her family . |
| 2 | The Mackie Memorial Library had been put together for just this purpose a hundred years before , and these were the very books being sold by Derbyshire library staff . |
| 3 | Still , they were going to Florida and she was going to Spain , so at least this year she had something to look forward to . |
| 4 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 5 | Police , with riot gear on standby , were called in just after 1am this morning . |
| 6 | The above contexts where make is followed by the to infinitive , far from disproving the explanation given above of why this verb is generally construed with the bare infinitive , confirm it therefore most convincingly . |
| 7 | But for Strauss himself it represented a stage in what was to become an anguished and sometimes bitter drifting away from even this somewhat diluted and Idealist ‘ Christianity ’ . |
| 8 | Mira 's dream is to get away from both this approach to the past and the alternative approach of realist fiction , to found a school of history in which ‘ The highest marks will be given , not to the most correct which will be unverifiable but to the most ingenious ’ ( 21 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me more about how this made you feel ’ , and ‘ What did you do when you felt like that ’ , give counsellees permission , and perhaps a feeling of safety , to talk further about themselves . |
| 10 | The stages are listed here not because this is exactly what every survey is like , or should be like , but because survey researchers have to consider all these points at some stage , and usually in roughly this order . |
| 11 | Knowing he 's got a good sound business to come home to when this old War 's over . ’ |
| 12 | In practice village elders were usually jointly responsible for the payment of the dues of village members as a whole , and as long as the correct amount was forthcoming , and the village itself reasonably peaceful and law-abiding , the domain authorities tended to concern themselves little with how this was achieved . |
| 13 | Think carefully about when this can be done — perhaps at the end of your knitting day or after you come in from work . |
| 14 | Whether this means high unemployment depends partly on how this work is distributed ; whether we keep the same working hours that we 've had in the past , for example , whether we work for as many years . |
| 15 | A table-top sale will be held in the village hall from 10am to 1pm this Saturday . |
| 16 | But the problem of settling the mechanics means it is not likely to be brought in before at least this autumn . |
| 17 | There was two thousand pound , Second World War bomb , they found in Walton , which is right near the River Thames which is , like , past Hampton Court , and Mike said that he 'd have to go out there today , and it 's er erm , this guy who he works for , owns a Leisure Centre right beside where this bomb is . |
| 18 | I think we 'll move you into a little theatre we have down here for just this sort of thing , OK ? |
| 19 | Besides , she did n't feel so wonderful that she wanted a boat ride to the mainland just yet , even if it did mean staying shut up here with only this moody man for company . |
| 20 | Well at least this would be a good er on that would n't it . |
| 21 | I have never seen this particular argument put forward in quite this form ; and I believe it to be the best argument for the ordination of women that there is . |
| 22 | Apart from just this . |
| 23 | Therefore , as a simple expedient , the object should be to eliminate the 50Hz or 60Hz basic frequency and operate instead at twice this frequency . |
| 24 | It turned out that my grandfather was right for Cody was killed a few minutes afterwards for just this reason . |
| 25 | I resolved to assert my authority from the beginning , or I would be trampled underfoot by even this most junior member of the Goreng clan . |