Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As a symbol of his undying affinity to Barnet , Fry promised to watch this Saturday 's match at Halifax from the terraces — despite Flashman banning him from the club . |
| 32 | Fry promised to watch this Saturday 's match at Halifax from the terraces — despite Flashman banning him from the club . |
| 33 | I tried to get this message on to the network by sending to but the seems to screw things up . |
| 34 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 35 | In Marx 's first draft of the plan for Capital there was a section on the State , but he proposed to approach this question from afar , after analysing capitalist economy in the strict sense of the word . |
| 36 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 37 | The prosecution tried to rebutt this defence by offerring evidence of a statement made by the defendant to the police in which he inferred that he wanted to get rid of the person he attacked . |
| 38 | She bent over to show me how they tried to eat this dust . |
| 39 | There was , therefore , a balance between court and country , and the civil wars helped to maintain this balance , by providing a central focus for local conflict . |
| 40 | Erm , I tried to ring this lady . |
| 41 | One German clerk , rather foolishly perhaps , tried to disarm this Troop officer and was shot for his indiscretion ; other Germans were captured and a few shot during the brisk action . |
| 42 | Giles tried to refuse this gift , but the old man only laughed and smiled . |
| 43 | We tried to test this hypothesis with respect to the use of three other forms of " flexible labour " , namely part-time workers , home workers and freelance workers by employers of temporary workers . |
| 44 | Verbal abuse was traditionally a crime among the Sinhalese , but the courts stopped trying this offence in the 1820s in the Low Country and a decade later in Kandyan districts . |
| 45 | So he tried to placate this man and he was n't going to be placated . |
| 46 | The adoption of iron instead of wood for floor beams helped to achieve this aim . |
| 47 | Many people helped to produce this book ; the authors particularly wish to thank Mr G W Lennox for his enthusiasm and encouragement , and Mr A L McKittrick for the original artwork . |
| 48 | That famous churchman Arnold of Rugby put a stamp upon independent education which helped to produce this consequence . |
| 49 | Throughout the 1980s , the government tried to achieve this aim through a variety of measures . |
| 50 | THERE ARE SO many people who helped to make this time special that I am sorry not to be able to mention them all by name . |
| 51 | Now you got fed this morning Patch . |
| 52 | But they were able to do so only because — by chance — monkeys and apes failed to reach this island . |
| 53 | Indeed , the threatened coal strike of 1925 , which occurred at more or less the same time , seemed to confirm this impression . |
| 54 | The victimization which occurred , the loss of trade union membership , and the wage reductions all seemed to confirm this impression . |
| 55 | It was not a critical success : as Philip Mairet , to whom the book was dedicated , put it , " Nobody seemed to like this book very much . |
| 56 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 57 | In the early post-war years it was believed that investment expenditures were not very responsive to changes in interest rates , and most of the empirical evidence at the time , seemed to support this view . |
| 58 | What seemed to support this theory was that Anthony Foster was said to have been strangled shortly afterwards , thereby tying up all the loose ends and avoiding embarrassment in the future . |
| 59 | How the platypus came to acquire this apparatus remains a mystery : few venomous animals use their venom when fighting among themselves , and it has therefore been suggested that the venom gland is a survival factor originally directed against some long-extinct predator . |
| 60 | Well , up until we 'd received this letter from er the new chairman designate , er Bob Reid , not seriously at all . |