Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] to this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I naturally came to this conclusion only with the greatest reluctance ; it was no easy matter for me , the responsible commander , to abandon my dreams of hope and victory ! |
| 2 | I just have to this crescent there . |
| 3 | From all my travels , and my journeys across the galaxies , I always return to this country , in this time zone . |
| 4 | I felt preternaturally over-sexed , and despite being removed from The Fat Controller 's proximate influence I still stuck to this rule . |
| 5 | How can I even listen to this stuff , let alone join in ? |
| 6 | I then said to this young horseman : ‘ Now hop on your wagon and be off ! ’ and he done so . ’ |
| 7 | I freely confess to this failing . |
| 8 | When I was in Jordan in nineteen sixty five studying Arabic , I helped the Save The Children Fund operation there for a few months and this was undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable and interesting short periods of my life and I look back on it with great warmth and affection and as your Royal Highness knows , it happens also that many , many years ago before you were our president , my father occupied your office and I therefore come to this meeting today with some knowledge of the fund 's activities and with great admiration and respect for all the that the fund has achieved . |
| 9 | . How could you possibly get to this hospital in a boat ? ’ |
| 10 | If you ever get to this wonderful stage of being able to pick your own team , it would be marvellous would n't it ? |
| 11 | We d Okay we do n't know , we want to ask them we w So if you are an MP in North Yorkshire and er you think I 'm giving you a hard time and I know you sneakily listen to this programme , I know you listen . |
| 12 | We usually refer to this nowadays as Hackett Forge . |
| 13 | Which we still read to this day . |
| 14 | We 'll both get out of your lives and then you can get on with that idyllic existence you shared before we ever came to this island . |
| 15 | But when you 've moved a five-bedroomed house which has got a grand piano in it as well , and you 're about twenty to thirty foot at the back and all you can see is furniture furniture furniture furniture furniture , you can imagine as you go on you 're thinking God will we ever get to this ? |
| 16 | If we now add to this the possibility that those units or sectors experiencing a fall in supply switch to borrowing from banks , the money supply will increase . |
| 17 | ‘ Our objective is to make certain you know we strongly object to this development . |
| 18 | erm , and to use a word that would be used in other areas , retraining goes on , amongst the judiciary or do they just get to this pinnacle , and then hold it against all comers , until they choose to retire , I mean , in any other , er , job where you have a peculiar expertise , like that , you would be expected to update yourself , to keep up with the trends , you would be sent away to conferences , and retraining courses . |
| 19 | One family involved in the disaster have been describing the agony they still endure to this day . |
| 20 | Most older people do not need what is interestingly referred to as ‘ warden-controlled accommodation ’ , although they seldom object to this extra facility . |
| 21 | Whether Drake was the first person to introduce potatoes to Britain is a matter of debate , but they certainly came to this country as stores aboard the ships which sailed to South America on missions of pillage and plunder in the 16th Century . |
| 22 | I thought it right to refer to this decision with which again I entirely agree . |
| 23 | God , she thought , how did it ever come to this ? |
| 24 | My wife , Ann , and I have experienced the sense of the terror that these unfortunate people must have felt , because it still lingers to this day in some of the small corries and glens in the hills above Tummel and Rannoch . |
| 25 | He also seems to this reviewer to accept too readily the authenticity of certain pieces ( most notably no. 27 , Imitator of Desiderio da Settignano , Virgin and Child ) , and a maddening feature is his habit of quoting inventory numbers rather than published sources for comparable pieces in other museums , which gives the impression that these comparanda have not been published . |
| 26 | What Hollywood had been doing was living off its wits and trying to survive as best it could but it now responded to this challenge not necessarily by taking Dr Dale 's ‘ entire world ’ as its range but at least by ensuring that there were values in its films . |
| 27 | It has the illusions of being part of the process by which your priorities may be achieved but , looked objectively , it is unlikely that it really contributes to this aim . |
| 28 | He unexpectedly appended to this a ‘ Post Script containing remarks on the State of Modern Sicily ’ in which his sympathy with contemporary trends in secular rationalist thought led him to argue that Sicily was in need of drastic modernization along liberal and democratic lines . |
| 29 | ‘ He definitely agreed to this ? ’ |
| 30 | Let us now turn to this very different approach . |