Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb infin] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daniel Becker , director of the global warming programme of the US environmental group , the Sierra Club , declared that : " The United States helped make this conference a failure . |
| 2 | In his preface to the catalogue , Apollinaire wrote : ‘ The new painters who made manifest this year , at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants of Paris , their artistic ideals , accept the name of Cubists which has been given to them . |
| 3 | " In the end , however , I have come to the conclusion that the learned county court judge adopted the right approach and did treat this question as one of degree and fact . |
| 4 | We did make we did make this point to Keith actually very very clearly , |
| 5 | So , we can expect conflict and , and did make this point , but we need to underline it , because it 's very important . |
| 6 | I 've got to say that I did enjoy this outing ; although the day began with a freezing start it warmed up later and I had a pleasant time working amongst the iron and other junk that abounds on the riverside . |
| 7 | However , he did consider this event important enough to send a report to an Australian station on Lord Howe Island . |
| 8 | If the courts did give this construction to the term law they would be applying a very different thesis from that originally conceived by Gould . |
| 9 | ‘ We have time , and indeed I did mark this lady waiting in your anteroom . |
| 10 | When they did employ this form it was , as at the Pantheon , a dome set upon circular walls which did not present great constructional problems ( 127 , 128 and 129 ) . |
| 11 | I did wish this book were longer , but it 's a perfect short bedtime read which cheers tired eyes and ears . |
| 12 | We did have this problem before but we started earlier did n't we ? |
| 13 | I mean if it is helpful and Mr and I did have this discussion in the pre-meeting that we had , er certainly if you wish to recommend that the d that the stars on the the diagram were to be changed er just simply to show one star instead of a route , then I for one would be quite happy with that . |
| 14 | But we did have this idea that the whole tribe went around together . |
| 15 | After several hearings between November 1817 and April 1818 the court decided that the appellee did have this right . |
| 16 | Yes Chairman , we we did have this debate in er budget review as I remember it . |
| 17 | And , by the way , he did have this job in Italy , but if it was in the slightest degree inconvenient to join them in the villa , he 'd book into a cheap little pensione by the railway station in Siena . |
| 18 | Neil , ’ I said , urgently , ‘ he did take this picture tonight , and whatever he took it for , it 's got to mean he 'll be coming back for it , and soon . |
| 19 | Francis Bacon , writing in 1627 said ‘ The Turks have a pretty art of chambletting paper which is not in use with us ’ , though , in fact , it did reach this country at about that date . |
| 20 | Some of the patients assigned to prednisolone did receive this drug for more than four weeks . |
| 21 | I 'm just wondering er the statutory instruments we 're passing tonight er and I did raise this point to the minister about the drain on the private sector every time a rule and regulation is passed . |
| 22 | She did , she did come this morning , but er then had a message that she 'd gone home . |
| 23 | He really did love this land . |
| 24 | I really believed he did love this suede . |
| 25 | I mean we did see some strange tracks and we did find this sheep which had been completely gutted , but apparently that could have been done by a snow leopard . |