Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carpet cleaning needs no chemicals ; handle fits on to heat shield , and steam hose clips on to this |
| 2 | The play tottered on like this for a quarter of an hour . |
| 3 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 4 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 5 | For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation . |
| 6 | Secondly , this is not a comparative evaluation of different models of service , since the standardised diagnostic assessment carried out in this study by the research psychiatrist is not the same process of assessment that occurs in domiciliary visits performed by psychogeriatricians in more traditional services . |
| 7 | One building stands out in this dispiriting panorama of post-war mediocrity : a dark powerful mass of brickwork with a tall central tower that stands right across the Thames from Wren 's dome . |
| 8 | And there was only her mind to wear out in this Dream . |
| 9 | What worries Spenser is how human action fits in with this determined overall scheme of things whose main signposts can be discerned in Scripture , but whose timetable and precise unravelling are not clear . |
| 10 | On rehearsal , when our cue came through , we heard him say ‘ I am a sea-gull at the Port of Vancouver ’ instead of the ‘ Fitzpatrick Travelogue ’ script agreed on for this part of the show . |
| 11 | The research reported on in this book consisted of semi-structured , tape-recorded interviews with ninety-six students ( forty-eight male , forty-eight female ) , and twelve members of academic staff , in three different institutions . |
| 12 | We have the mayor bugging out on this , Scott . ’ |
| 13 | and there 's , and there 's enough fighting going on in this bloody house |
| 14 | A TV commentator told viewers during the final morning 's play : ‘ We have seen plenty of seam lifting going on in this match . ’ |
| 15 | I think there 's a day of action coming up on this sort of D I Y stuff . |
| 16 | All the cooking , eating , living went on under this vaulted ceiling with its skylights , around this central fireplace , on this limestone floor knuckled with the imprints of fossils . |
| 17 | The fiction , however , reads like an attempt to break out of this self-imposed restriction . |
| 18 | ‘ I want the emotion taken out of this debate . |
| 19 | Are we never going to use our various collective skills , institutions and organizations , as well as our particular imaginations , insights and inventiveness to face up to this false prospectus , false prospectus we are trying to live by ? |
| 20 | We 'll just have lunch , and then I 'm sure you 've got a wonderful programme lined up for this afternoon ! ’ |
| 21 | There is again a plume , but additionally horizontal layers of double diffusive convection spread out around this . |
| 22 | The barrister for the defendant picked up on this . |
| 23 | Each and every act of every agent comes out of this machine . ’ |
| 24 | Simon Keys came over from his job with the National Rivers Authority in Leeds and Julie Kent , working with the Industrial Ecology Research Centre at Liverpool University came over from this busy consultancy . |
| 25 | However , because all the seismic stations have been placed on the near side the wave speeds down to this depth only reliably apply to the near side . |
| 26 | Getting a bit fed up with this weather . |
| 27 | Another correspondent came up with this analogy : ‘ It 's comparable to requiring Detroit to produce automobiles that can be overtaken by faster police cars . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm not in a mood to fool around over this one , Johnny . ’ |
| 29 | If you do n't , and if further abuse occurs , you will be removed from the list and your site informed about the abuse carried out by this userid . |
| 30 | In the event , the General Council drew back from this extreme policy and the outcome was that , after months of violence and intense bitterness , George Ward won his point and unions were excluded from the Grunwick plant . |