Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet she 'd walked right into this marvelous chance , with no mother who would get jealous of her with the baby , only this bunch of doctors to deal with . |
| 2 | So I picked him up and I carried him , Dorothy had gone out the wrong door , instead of going out the door at that end she 'd gone right along this long corridor |
| 3 | Apparently , whenever she 'd gone close to this man he 'd shooed her away , recoiling from her and muttering , ‘ Pork , pork , pork , VD , VD , white woman , white woman . ’ |
| 4 | Mait seemed taken aback by this outburst . |
| 5 | One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains . |
| 6 | Police declined to comment further at this stage and Mr Alec Chipstead , a chartered surveyor , was not available for questioning . ’ |
| 7 | Shanti and Chris discovered in February that they were expecting a baby , There was tremendous excitement and we all began to look forward to this addition to the family . |
| 8 | But once at the School , in his own place and with his daily occupation , he began to think again of this dream woman , and added to the old notion of what she should be , which Diana had personified , was an idea of her as his rescuer , as someone who would save him and make him whole again . |
| 9 | But last year American Airlines and United started nibbling away at this business when they replaced bankrupt Pan Am and TWA on many of the services between America and London . |
| 10 | Now I had never before tried to regress anyone to a time when they were under the influence of anaesthetic , but I decided to do so on this occasion . |
| 11 | However , the DES , despite its history of neglect of the curriculum , started to move cautiously into this domain . |
| 12 | For the new generation , providence meant looking ahead in this progressive sense ; those who would not do so were classed as improvident . |
| 13 | Some trepidation did exist therefore on this occasion but I was fortunate and the MV Brendan had only to negotiate a slight swell on its way past Eriskay to South Uist . |
| 14 | But no , they had to go ahead with this rather inadequate data . ’ |
| 15 | after they had come forward with this |
| 16 | The members of this group changed regularly , and were composed of those who had done well on this or that physical test . |
| 17 | The men defended themselves by arguing that the woman had consented to sex frequently and had done so on this occasion also . |
| 18 | But he had written all over this one — the handwriting was unmistakable — before tearing it and throwing it on the floor . |
| 19 | I could see they had thought hard about this . |
| 20 | Ludens had reflected uneasily upon this episode . |
| 21 | In this extract the hero approaches Stonehenge : Some readers have found the human sacrifice image ‘ juvenile ’ , and it is reminiscent of the general level of The Vale of Esthwaite ; but in Wordsworth 's defence one must point out that everybody believed that Stonehenge had been the scene of human sacrifice , and continued to do so until this century ( see , for instance , Hardy 's Tess of the D'Urbervilles ) . |
| 22 | I kept asking myself how the photographers had arrived there at this particular track . |
| 23 | ’ Sophie had seized eagerly on this possible lead and was determined to follow it , nose to the ground . |
| 24 | However , she had recovered manfully from this shock and though infirm in leg , nevertheless flexed her ample arm easily enough to lift the immense tea-pot and replenish at frequent intervals the capable-looking tea-cups . |
| 25 | She ran a hand over her hair , arranged the shawl so that it covered both her and the baby , and went out with her long resolute stride ; she had recovered quickly from this birth . |
| 26 | She had to keep close to this man even if it meant sharing his bed . |
| 27 | A " The settlement at Munich was a triumph for British policy , which had worked precisely to this end ; not a triumph for Hitler , who had started with no such clear intention . |
| 28 | She had wandered innocently into this self-sealing labyrinth of fantasy until she was afraid of life herself . |
| 29 | She had to get away from this magical place , and away from his close proximity , to think clearly . |
| 30 | It seemed that Britain was wealthy enough for some redistribution to be possible , as , arguably , it had not been in the 1830s , and that voluntary effort had achieved little in this respect . |