Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [subord] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | No offence is committed even though this notice will have no effect ( see section 5 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act , paragraph 9–03 above ) . |
| 2 | Sister Dannii would often join in and little could parents Carol and Ron have realised just where this extrovert show of singing and dancing would lead to . |
| 3 | Surely Sherlock Holmes could have done better than this ? |
| 4 | I desire you will come over & thin y cherry trees w. you promised mee to have done long before this . |
| 5 | In a letter written just before this last trip he asked the Bishop to act as his next-of-kin , mentioned a small legacy to the diocese , and added that he hoped to benefit the Church in Burma with many years of service rather than with a paltry sum of money . |
| 6 | If there are likely to be difficulties about accommodation for yourself as the daughter at home , after your parent 's death , contact should be made well before this event is imminent with the Housing Manager of the local council for advice , and you might write also to the Housing Corporation Head Office , Maple House , 149 Tottenham Court Road , London W1P 0BN , who will send a free directory of registered Housing Associations and other housing schemes in the area of your choice , so that you can begin forward planning . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , such a link is often made even when this is not the case . |
| 8 | She felt a flash of the excitement she had felt initially when this three weeks in Sardinia had been so unexpectedly sprung on her . |
| 9 | Raquel Welch has performed better than this . |
| 10 | If the modules are needed sooner than this , please inform the LIFESPAN Manager . |
| 11 | Katherine Chidley may have died soon after this episode , since nothing more is heard of her , whether as religious writer , political activist , or successful woman of business . |
| 12 | It will be shown later than this power is shared by most of the tissues and secretions of the human body , by the tissues of other animals , by vegetable tissues , and , to a very marked degree , by egg white . |
| 13 | I 'm not needed here until this Aldhelm has played his part and pointed the finger at your Tutilo , as I take it you 're certain he will before the night 's out . |
| 14 | At the start of week 2 the required time to go to bed was reduced by half an hour and Keith was rewarded only if this new time was achieved . |
| 15 | This new pond would be connected to the present rear header pool using 4″ pipework and the header pool itself would be raised higher because this would control the level of the water in the new pond . |
| 16 | An image of national unity should be portrayed even if this was not a true reflection of reality . |
| 17 | The first complete English translation was by the Carthusian Nicholas Love and licensed for reading by the Archbishop of Canterbury , Thomas Arundel , in 1410 , but portions were translated earlier than this . |
| 18 | However , any treatment to relieve pain and suffering may well be justified even if this leads to an earlier death . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection . |
| 20 | There were , moreover , rather more poor urban dwellers still lacking electricity supply than there were rural dwellers , and investment in the reinforcement , standardisation and extension of urban supplies ( some of which the Boards considered would be remunerative ) was being cut back while this uneconomic development of rural areas was pressed forward . |
| 21 | Thirty-four of the women sprinters had run faster than this , but there was none to match Florence Griffith-Joyner , the Californian world-record holder , the incomparable ‘ Flo-Jo ’ destined to take the gold medal . |
| 22 | You can tell that the film is being run backward because this kind of behavior is never observed in ordinary life . |
| 23 | ‘ I hope these people are consulted fully when this application goes through , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Some of the AGR stations have worked better than this description suggests . |
| 25 | She could n't help thinking that Cara , who had been known to take the car to go as far as the corner shop to pick up a bottle of milk , would have folded long before this . |
| 26 | He had only one more room to do , he said , and he should have finished long before this but he 'd been badly delayed in the car on the other side of the dining car , which he had in his care also . |
| 27 | No one could have fought harder than this Government to maintain the zero rates that we have . |
| 28 | Few have worked harder than this quartet to repair the links between Britain and Argentina broken by the Falklands War . |
| 29 | No movie that ran in his head had ever worked out as this one did . |
| 30 | 2.8 Subject to the provisions of clause 2.9 the Landlord shall [ use all reasonable endeavours to ] carry out the Works to such a stage as would entitle the Architect to issue a Certificate in respect of all the Works not later than the day of It is essential that there is a specific date by which the certificate is to be issued even though this may be weakened by the proviso at the beginning of this clause . |