Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few months later , as Emile de Laveleye goes on to say in this essay of 1871 , the Franco-Prussian war broke out , setting in motion the sequence of European conflicts which led , ultimately , to the obliteration of the centre of Berlin in 1945 . |
| 2 | The narrator then goes on to tell of this divorcee , Brenda Goring , who arrives in their village and who latches on to his quite mouse of a wife , whom he dearly loves , fills her ears with tales of the fast life she has always led and still leads in visits to London and , worse , is always to be found in his home when he gets back exhausted from the office . |
| 3 | If one had not been inclined to before , one had to go on reading after this : ‘ Take three thrillers on a series of long-distance air journeys . |
| 4 | ‘ So we have to go on meeting like this , ever watchful , always circumspect in our behaviour when in company so no one will suspect — ’ |
| 5 | Of course , it is quite another matter to go on to argue from this very limited piece of evidence that loss of the fricative in /xt/ was embedded in the English language as a whole as a completed sound-change at this early date . |
| 6 | But they did agree to disagree about the how and why of storytelling and , as Ms Sontag concluded , ‘ We are going to go on talking about this for many years but now , alas , we have to stop ’ . |
| 7 | Sutton people became so enraged about this , that the Pope eventually became involved . |
| 8 | Certain other arrangements which I must make naturally turn upon this . |
| 9 | ‘ Then I shall arrange it , ’ said Adam , who had no intention of producing quarterly accounts for this inquisitive journalist . |
| 10 | The league table for parts of the body to benefit most looks like this : |
| 11 | Certain human rights treaties grant individuals access to international arenas , when the State in question has expressly agreed to this procedure . |
| 12 | By the mid-century , the novelist 's art has entirely changed in this respect : extensive description of living space is no longer the rare exception but the rule . |
| 13 | Beware of becoming so fixated on this one position that you acquire a mental block against progressing further . |
| 14 | I am just sorry it has all ended in this way . |
| 15 | The Independent Labour Party has long warned against this . |
| 16 | Regular NI readers will be pleased to note that frogs ' legs get a mention — our Briefly page has long campaigned against this gruesome trade . |
| 17 | If it has not completed within this time , the transfer run will stop shortly after the transfer duration has expired . |
| 18 | Although the name Shaw has not arisen before this date , from here onwards it was never to be far from the Lakeland milling scene . |
| 19 | Those readers who like the gossip found in ‘ Heard on my Rounds ’ will have noticed that the column has not appeared in this issue . |
| 20 | The Hon. Lady 's old trick of quoting one item as an example for all the valleys has not come off this time . |
| 21 | Kaunda said that " Zambianization has not succeeded in this particular area . |
| 22 | Sir , — Now that the dust has finally settled on this election we may pause to reflect on what has undoubtedly been one of the dirtiest , and most depressing of exercises in political chicanery . |
| 23 | I tried to picture what she must have been like , the young woman who had diligently allowed her life to fade away working at this solitary chore . |
| 24 | ‘ The Impressionist and the City : Pissarro 's Series ’ opened at the Dallas Museum of Art last month ( until 31 January 1993 ) and will be shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art ( 7 March-6 June 1993 ) and at London 's Royal Academy of Arts ( 2 July-10 October 1993 ) , which has already contributed to this debate with its recent exhibitions of ‘ Monet in the Nineties ’ ( 1990 ) and ‘ Alfred Sisley ’ ( 1992 ) in which the later works were strongly featured . |
| 25 | Michael Burr ( West of Scotland Agricultural College ) in his Report ( September 1982 ) on Tourism and Farming in the French Alps has already written about this subject in detail . |
| 26 | In particular it will help to resolve the deep paradox that has already surfaced in this book and will continue to do so : how it is that the same features of individuality can be expressed in such totally disparate forms . |
| 27 | Head comes in , has already thought of this , and agrees to organize a collection from staff for fruit or whatever . |
| 28 | A subsequent study of second cancers following anal and cervical cancer found further support for this aetiological link . |
| 29 | The reputation of the universities and polytechnics has hardly recovered to this day . |
| 30 | That maxim , one could say , is the core of The Lord of the Rings , and it is reinforced from the start by all that Gandalf says about the way Ring-bearers fade , regardless of all their ‘ strength ’ or ‘ good purpose ’ , and further by his violent refusal to take the Ring himself : His renunciation makes sense in an age which has seen many pigs become farmers ; no reviewer has ever balked at this basic opening move of Tolkien 's . |