Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She agreed to attend this club the next week with her friend . |
| 2 | But Kampuchea failed to acquire this status . |
| 3 | You got to go this Sunday ? |
| 4 | With the help of his mother and sister , he agreed to continue this work at home which would be set by the school and assessment centre jointly . |
| 5 | No mention of private Bills would be complete without paying tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for New Forest ( Sir P. McNair-Wilson ) for the way in which he chaired the Committee which sought to untangle this web . |
| 6 | That is the only reason I agreed to write this message to you . |
| 7 | For the next eighteen years people like Hendrik Lorentz and George Fitzgerald tried to accommodate this observation within accepted ideas of space and time . |
| 8 | I tried to implement this philosophy , as I suspected Chelsea was no different from the East End . |
| 9 | An important case , Prince Albert v Strange ( 1849 ) , helped to establish this area of law and concerned etchings made by Queen Victoria and her consort , Prince Albert . |
| 10 | The new Civil Code tried to adjust this anomaly by laying down that the right of ownership should lapse at the same time that the right of revendication lapses . |
| 11 | He promised to pass this idea on . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly , those of them that tried to reverse this fate have sometimes prospered . |
| 13 | Before I hand over to Dave to tell his side of the story , I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dave , Richard , Liz and all the JM staff at sites around the country who helped to organise this event which has raised so much for our Charity of the Year . |
| 14 | Even when he tried to put this matter right , by putting his head forward and up , he was faced with an even greater difficulty because he saw again from the mirror that he was increasing the tension and pulling his head back even further . |
| 15 | However , a problem arose when people tried to extend this independence of the speed of the observer to the laws that govern the motion of light . |
| 16 | Although I tried to do this visualization several times a day , I found it best and most rewarding first thing in the morning when I and my mind were fresh . |
| 17 | She tried to superimpose this place on Amelia Dorf 's house , but could not make the images jibe . |
| 18 | Negative perceptions of wilderness helped to reinforce this process of agricultural expansion by , in effect , making a virtue out of necessity — by turning cultivation and agriculture into a form of semi-religious crusade ( Thomas , 1983 ; Serpell , 1986 ) . |
| 19 | Since Ptolemy tried to solve this problem in the second century , it has been on the agenda of theorists of perception and is still , I understand , not fully resolved . |
| 20 | I tried to hold this woman up in a car park underneath the council offices . |
| 21 | Towards the end of the Tsarist period the Slavophils , Dostoevsky , Tolstoy , and others tried to bridge this gulf . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Fry promised to watch this Saturday 's match at Halifax from the terraces — despite Flashman banning him from the club . |
| 24 | I tried to get this message on to the network by sending to but the seems to screw things up . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She bent over to show me how they tried to eat this dust . |
| 30 | 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 . |