Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all the young people who have shared not just today but shared together in this weekend thank you God . |
| 2 | What I do find difficult to swallow — we argued long about this — is some strange belief of his that the world is immaterial and that humanity ( if I have it correctly ) is no more than a kind of metaphysical construct projected by nature and relying on words rather than flesh for its continued existence . |
| 3 | It 's like this film I seen about these penguins — you know , how they all lived together on this island , and they was loads of them , all jammed together . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , Japan 's domestic economy expanded greatly during this period , so commercial and financial practices naturally developed as well , though along slightly different lines from those of the West . |
| 5 | The decrease in the incidence of pancreatitis discharges in women also occurred predominantly in this age group ( Fig 3B ) . |
| 6 | The curve of the blade contributed greatly to this , as Henry Stephens showed in his Book of the Farm . |
| 7 | • Hundreds of original , flavour-tested recipes , each created especially for this series . |
| 8 | Our grateful thanks to everyone listed below as this year 's donors to the Appeal . |
| 9 | The Stags Fell stone-mines are typical of a phenomenon found only in this area . |
| 10 | His black brows rose sceptically at this small amount of information . |
| 11 | Tallis moved swiftly through this place of forest shrines , and after a while the nature of the wood changed again . |
| 12 | Clean , it was an absolute dream ; the EQ offered more than enough scope to produce anything from a cutting Telecaster to a rich acoustic tone , and with the help of a short delay and pitchshift I put a sound onto tape which I 'd defy anyone not to recognise as an acoustic guitar — and I 'd actually used the Patrick Eggle New York model reviewed elsewhere in this issue . |
| 13 | Four pairs of eyes fastened momentarily on this and absorbed the fact that they had been cheated . |
| 14 | He gave the explicit coordinate transformation by which the line element ( 10.24 ) becomes , ( 10.26 ) where the coordinate t is not the same as that used elsewhere in this chapter , and ( 10.27 ) which clearly satisfies the necessary conditions . |
| 15 | As Dr. Mann has argued , it does allow the English courts to provide assistance , in practice under the Hague Convention , in certain fiscal and administrative contexts which would be judged by some other countries to fall outside its scope ; Dr. Mann 's unease at this needs to be balanced against the enormous and considered growth , recounted elsewhere in this book , in international co-operation in such fields . |
| 16 | Modern critics were not good at Anglo-Saxon echoes , especially at ones which hung on into modern times in phrases like ‘ mock ’ and ‘ make ’ , ‘ chance ’ and ‘ choice ’ , ‘ bullet ’ and ‘ billet ’ , all mentioned already in this study . |
| 17 | The Ordnance Survey maps of the Iron Age , Roman and other historical periods , are necessary references , and the specialist atlases — Anglo-Saxon England , Historical Atlas of Britain , etc. , mentioned elsewhere in this book — may be considered essential . |
| 18 | To obtain a clear white wine from black grapes Dom Pérignon would have had to employ sophisticated pressing techniques ; it is most likely , therefore , that it was Pérignon who invented the traditional Champagne press , designed exactly for this purpose . |
| 19 | Many , but sadly not all , camcorders enable you to monitor the sound in the field via an earpiece which is plugged into a socket provided specially for this purpose . |
| 20 | I 'm sorry to report that I behaved rudely at this point . |
| 21 | Beaverbrook , indeed , who knew Law very well but was also addicted to dramatic interpretations , believed that the collapse of Law 's health stemmed partly from this destruction of his position as undisputed captain , maybe of ‘ the second eleven ’ in Churchill 's phrase , but at least of a team of like-minded , straightforward and loyal men . |
| 22 | But even in the 1820s some of his work had been on electricity and magnetism , which would now be thought of as physics ; and in the 1830s he moved decidedly in this direction . |
| 23 | The third stage , described later in this chapter , is to become that light principle consciously , and to work with it . |
| 24 | Primary pupil costs also rose substantially during this three-year period . |
| 25 | Suffice it to say here that unemployment rates in all advanced industrial societies rose substantially during this period ; the optimism of the 1950s and 1960s was replaced by general pessimism about future economic prospects in individual countries and in the world in general ; and all this after a period of unprecedented growth in public expenditure on education and health in all advanced industrial countries . |
| 26 | He had businesses in the North and used regularly at this time of year at the end of the summer sales , to go the rounds of his shops , take stock , examine the books , and so on . |
| 27 | Anaemia occurred frequently in this elderly group affecting 80% of men and 75% of women . |
| 28 | The Civil Affairs Service , formed to provide a military administration and recruited mainly from British civil servants ejected from Burma , objected strongly to this policy . |
| 29 | Against this background , the first book devoted exclusively to this exciting and topical subject should be a significant landmark . |
| 30 | En Shao presided well over this strange remoteness and used the best of the atmospheric cathedral acoustic . |