Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russians applied to enter this country and less than half of them were allowed in ? |
| 2 | Verbal abuse was traditionally a crime among the Sinhalese , but the courts stopped trying this offence in the 1820s in the Low Country and a decade later in Kandyan districts . |
| 3 | For the next eighteen years people like Hendrik Lorentz and George Fitzgerald tried to accommodate this observation within accepted ideas of space and time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , even when research came to recognize this exaggeration and to examine the diversity of local service provision , local politics remained shrouded in mystery . |
| 6 | His languid mind began comparing this moment to the noise and confusion of Arnhem , the battle that had ended his war . |
| 7 | The data needed to provide this colour/intensity control is provided in the form of a bit code . |
| 8 | JUST to prove that there is life after rugby , last year 's Grand Slam coach Roger Uttley decided to forsake this season 's Paris showdown in favour of an altogether different sort of grunt-and-grind in Boston . |
| 9 | The line h-d is the conventional engineering action needed to realize this solution . |
| 10 | There was a pause while Gavin 's duty-neuron struggled to assimilate this information . |
| 11 | Corbett had dreaded this question , always knowing it would be asked . |
| 12 | In Scotland , the electorate had to pay this tax for an extra year . |
| 13 | An unfortunate allusion , thought McAllister nastily , who knew her Bible , and that the cock crowed after betrayal , and from what Matey had said this woman specialised in betrayal . |
| 14 | Our solitary eyes had arranged this meeting at the restaurant of Hostal Rosario , La Paz . |
| 15 | The prophet Ezekiel had given this oracle from God , looking ahead to the age of fulfilment : |
| 16 | I wondered if David had got this evening to catch a bottle of wine |
| 17 | What mind had created this mythago , she wondered in astonishment . |
| 18 | But emigration to the United States had made this restriction anachronistic and so the Liberal government altered the law . |
| 19 | Eleanor had discussed this reaction with Nigel , hoping that he 'd volunteer to do all the phoning in future , but he just assured her that his marriage was an open one . |
| 20 | Captain Biggins had had this crew for fourteen missions now , few things had gone seriously wrong , and his skill and judgement were fully trusted . |
| 21 | Edward had met this challenge by invading Scotland , but he was unable to bring the enemy to battle . |
| 22 | Mr Chin had foreseen this difficulty and made sure that no child had majority control of any of the family companies . |
| 23 | It led through still more lofty halls and winding corridors quite big enough for a dragon ( and dragons had come this way once , it seemed ; there was a room lull of rotting harness , dragon-sized , and another room containing plate and chain mail big enough for elephants ) . |
| 24 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 25 | No , not precisely I , I was a bit too young then , I , I remember all the songs about her Amy wonderful Amy and all those and oh and when she married Jim I was very much in but I could n't actually say I remembered her crashing at Walsall The erm you could , yeah , when I came home from work one Monday afternoon my nan said this eighty eight had gone over very low , and we , we heard that they 'd dropped this landmine this same aircraft had dropped this landmine that had gone under the gas holder at the gas works , in Road and the , they had some rescue workers from the A R P to get it out they never even bothered calling for the Royal Engineers , but the situation was that landmines used to come down on parachutes , and they used to slide into places which were inaccessible but anyway , they relied on the local Walsall A R P to get them out . |
| 26 | The professor had treated this book with proper severity , and Himmler wanted me to dispose once and for all of this type of scientific mischief-making . |
| 27 | So this is a major complication and I think this shows why Freud had to introduce this second model of the mind , because in his first model of the mind it was very simple and repression was the force that distinguished conscious from unconscious . |
| 28 | Today 's results show that many teenagers have been hit by the recession , with the average pocket money received falling this year . |
| 29 | The Russians learnt to adapt this system to their climate as they adapted roof and dome pitches for the same reason . |
| 30 | Experience seemed to justify this view , for the period saw many indecisive encounters of this kind ; while the naval battles which produced some decisive result — Cape Passaro ( 1718 ) ; Hawke 's victory over the French Admiral Du Bois de la Motte ( 1744 ) ; Lagos and Quiberon Bay ( 1759 ) ; Rodney 's ‘ midnight chase ’ of the Spanish Admiral Langara in 1780 — were nearly all marked by a preponderance of strength on one side . |