Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Civil Affairs Service , formed to provide a military administration and recruited mainly from British civil servants ejected from Burma , objected strongly to this policy . |
| 2 | She had taken supply teaching for a term at a nearby school and moved here to this school as a replacement teacher for the remainder of the year . |
| 3 | The English delegation objected violently to this poster , saying it could n't possibly be distributed , especially in the UK . |
| 4 | Neil Kinnock made a very good , warm , amusing and emotional speech whose merits applied exactly to this venue . |
| 5 | ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own . |
| 6 | I was sort of hoping any other people who were interested in standing for re-election might have came along to this Committee to show their |
| 7 | I came in to this building last year I 've got people sitting here who 've realised it was n't a happy place to be I found it quite difficult . |
| 8 | Vanners Silks is by far the oldest company , its history stretching back 250 years to the Huguenot weavers who came over to this country from France . |
| 9 | C minor usually served to depict grief and lamenting ( but neither composer adhered strictly to this notion ) . |
| 10 | They originally lived in the home counties but came up to this area two years ago . |
| 11 | I lived with my father , then when my father died I came back to this country . |
| 12 | I 've always wished that I never came back to this country . |
| 13 | But his son and his brother came back to this country , early in the seventeenth century , about sixteen five sixteen six . |
| 14 | The revised 1928 Comintern theses on Latin America , as indicated above , came closer to this position , although differences remained over the nature of Latin American development and the issue of the possible coexistence of feudalism and capitalism . |
| 15 | How many lived up to this standard ? |
| 16 | We were talking about it one day walking down the road walked up to this woman , went I fucking hate |
| 17 | The ‘ scratch ’ was the line drawn across the centre of the ring in prize-fighting , and a match would begin when the two contestants stepped up to this line . |
| 18 | But when the boys became seven they they went on to this school on the green . |
| 19 | And I went down to this bird 's down by the library two weeks ago and this same fella came in with a gram and he was like that , giving out big smokes . |
| 20 | I went in to this fella er er er he seemed to know what I was talking about to start with |
| 21 | Scores of officers , many of them armed went in to this caravan site at dawn . |
| 22 | Erm so I went straight to this place and there was a fella downstairs , his secretary was erm out on her lunch . |
| 23 | But we went out to this zydeco bar and it just completely blew me away . ’ |
| 24 | Listen , went out to this shop with my friend and she 's gone deaf , seriously she has . |
| 25 | He laughed abruptly and went back to this wine cup . |
| 26 | Clovis Sangrail listened silently to this conversation , and after lunch he spoke to Lord Pabham in the smoking-room . |
| 27 | He looked forward to this drink , the first of the day , with a sensuous desire . |
| 28 | Babur looked forward to this feeling many times while he was studying , waiting to leave the narrow circle of his family 's imagination . |
| 29 | ‘ Because I looked forward to this Christmas , knowing you 'd be here . |
| 30 | So when anybody wanted to repot a plant they just went round to this lady then did they ? |