Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Published works of the 1950s , 1960s and 1970s all tended to follow this approach , and while there were occasional signs of shifts in direction , these were mere rustlings in the undergrowth compared with the revolution taking place elsewhere in British archaeology . |
| 2 | So impressive was the damage , and the mess , that willing Goblins soon began to take this form of warfare quite seriously . |
| 3 | Ladies and gentlemen erm about three years ago we finally decided to restore this car that you see behind us and although it was er an impossible task at times we , we carried on regardless and I hope that you 'll agree that everything you see today , plus the fact that seeing everybody out here , I think we , you 'll agree we made the right decision and er we feel that as long as this car is in this position that nobody 'll erm have any doubts who the Three- Ninetieth Group were and er , I think er , I think we 're all proud of this day particularly . |
| 4 | yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ? |
| 5 | From the first he would often stay behind ‘ after hours ’ , telling his mates he ‘ just wanted to finish this run ’ because he knew the machines were capable of producing more material than they were currently achieving . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know why I ever agreed to have this car . |
| 7 | After all these years I still enjoyed playing this game . |
| 8 | I said knew about it , erm , you must have known about it , erm , that standard edition of the complete psychological works of Freud , that 's its title , and you 're one of the editors , one of the editors , I said , there 's no evidence that you ever intended to include this book in it , even though , you know , I understand that it could n't be published as long as Woodrow Wilson 's family was still alive , but erm , you know , why was n't it published in the standard edition ? |
| 9 | Wilson felt only dimly aware of Miss Blagden 's kindness but later came to realise this sign and evidence of human concern had most probably saved her that time from real madness . |
| 10 | I thoroughly enjoyed playing this game and , I like the idea of making my own game worlds with the ZZT Editor and controlling the objects using the built in ZZT-OOP programming language . |
| 11 | Marx was of course examining reproduction in its particular capitalist form , and hence tended to emphasise this aspect . |
| 12 | He really did love this land . |
| 13 | It was not the fault of Annie Besant 's biographer that I often longed to put this book down . |
| 14 | ‘ But if you really had discovered this way of changing people , why did you stop ? ’ |
| 15 | And it 's too late to put together the story I really wanted to do this week . |
| 16 | If he really wanted to keep this room a secret , having no window onto the outside would be the best way , surely ? ’ |
| 17 | Stand-in Liverpool manager Ronnie Moran said : ‘ The other four lads who were missing today managed to train this morning and have a good chance of facing Portsmouth . ’ |
| 18 | They then sought to recover this sum and costs from Mr. Mahmoud under the covenant for indemnity contained in the assignment of 8 January 1986 . |
| 19 | He then sought to reconcile this proposition with the fact that the defendants were also agents for Mr. Brant and it was in the course of that agency , not whilst acting as agents for the plaintiff , that the defendants had learned that Mr. Perot was interested in buying Vertigo . |
| 20 | Quigley twitched , then decided to ignore this remark . |
| 21 | Again you used to drop it and whoever was what we called on had to fetch this peg back again , put it onto there , and then come and find us again . |
| 22 | He could only have been chosen had there been no other credible candidate , and Baldwin 's performance from the date of the Carlton Club meeting forward had destroyed this possibility . |
| 23 | We therefore decided to include this model as a positive control in this study . |
| 24 | We therefore decided to analyse this element in greater detail . |
| 25 | ‘ I never thought to see this day , ’ he murmured , as he rose to his feet and gently pulled her up to him . |
| 26 | We recently had to face this problem in my own county when we embarked on a capital programme to computerise the library service . |
| 27 | The church certainly had to follow this path in the face of the external constraints ; but the practice did strengthen its status , power , and the structure of political divisions . |
| 28 | The next question was why had he gone to so much trouble and expense if he never intended to use this place as his base ? |