Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The benches by the Cages were suddenly stark and mysterious as they slowly became set against this drifting whiteness . |
| 2 | Much lies hidden behind this sensational growth . |
| 3 | Only having moved into this new warehouse apartment just over two months ago , Laura still was n't quite sure how most of the ultra-modern appliances actually worked . |
| 4 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 5 | I doubt whether the legend of Dom Pérignon would necessarily have survived to this day but for the fact that the Abbey of Hautvillers , where he devoted his life to the perfection of wine , happened to be in Champagne . |
| 6 | She and Phil Morris together had hit upon this virtue out of necessity since the machines could still print only one colour and new machinery for multi-coloured printing was much too expensive . |
| 7 | I could not feel offended after this , and accepted the wine . |
| 8 | We 've just got settled in this place . |
| 9 | Just get rid of this . |
| 10 | In the meantime , oxygen could not have accumulated at this early stage ( without biological help ) because it would absorb the same ultraviolet rays . |
| 11 | ‘ We would not have stayed with this product so long if we did not believe there was potential to make at least £20 million annual profit from it , ’ Shaw says . |
| 12 | Even if Article 36 bis had been included in the Vienna Convention on International Organisations it would not have applied in this situation . |
| 13 | Had I wanted to do something in astronomy , which I did actually want to do because I 'd taken an interest in it , in fact I would not have thought of this type of molecule . |
| 14 | Foreplay , for instance , can rightly be defined as an activity intended to culminate in sexual intercourse , which means an engaged couple should not have entered into this yet . |
| 15 | Alternatively , a client who has been treated as an expert investor on the grounds of his experience may claim that , in fact , he was a private investor , that he should have received warnings as to the risks and that , had he received them , he would not have entered into this type of transaction at all . |
| 16 | I would not have learnt of this paper so quickly ( and perhaps not at all ) had I not had access to the Internet . |
| 17 | She should not have come on this picnic . |
| 18 | Embalming would not have allowed for this and , had the person not been dead prior to the beginning of the operation , he certainly would be once it was all over . |
| 19 | It is clear , though , that scholars from protagoras to the nineteenth century would not have agreed with this . |
| 20 | Try not to get pushed into this — your health is worth more than a few extra quid . |
| 21 | Something fishy : you could easily get hooked on this lovely fish design by Hinchcliffe and Barber , part of a 19-piece set . |
| 22 | Twelve and a half per cent 's going to be twelve and a half over a hundred , er , oh , well , we 're going to cancel , but first of all we could go the opposite way , and multiply , just to get rid of this fraction . |
| 23 | Perhaps one detail I have not mentioned led to this unexpected response in me . |
| 24 | Er human testing and immunizations is still going gone in this are and I hope it wo n't ever stop . |
| 25 | We ge , we always get done in this lesson do n't we ? |
| 26 | ‘ But I ca n't ever remember a storm like this one ever having occurred in this area before , ’ said Cardiff . |
| 27 | Using the numerous hollows and small rises unnoticed to untrained soldiers on a bare hillside , Turton and his men once lay hidden in this deadground while the Japanese moving to encircle them passed by , leaving the Australian patrol to come off the hill at nightfall . |
| 28 | It can not have changed much in two hundred years and still , today , the tireless plume of woodsmoke wafts up from the chimney , proving that life goes on in much the same way as it always have done in this particular vicinity . |
| 29 | Thingamabob nearly got run over this morning ! |
| 30 | The last of the shore birds will probably have arrived by this time . |