Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] this [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to relate this sudden vision of the things of the pieties of the Dodson sisters to Daniel 's Mum 's instructions about how to cook Christmas pudding , and largely failed . |
| 2 | But when Brahé tried to detect this predicted parallax with his instruments , which were the most accurate and sensitive ones in existence at the time , he failed . |
| 3 | Right , that 's it , that 'll do , I wo n't go any further and I can get the other things in well we had er , we had an aluminium friend , a double glazed enormous window over our landing and it was , the aluminium was so cold and it was conden there was so much condensation that we had a new window P V C put in , but I tried to sell this other window , cos it was beautiful you see , nothing wrong with it except you know , but nobody wanted it and I kept it and I had it for about two years standing outside and then I thought I can use that and I cut , it was a three section , three lots of glass all in one , cut down , divide it into two and one , and got myself a plant house under the erm |
| 4 | Roux 's results were published for the first time in 1888 : three years later I tried to repeat this fundamental experiment on another subject and by a somewhat different method , It was known from the cytological researches of the brothers Hertwig and Boveri that the eggs of the common sea urchin are able to stand well all sorts of rough treatment , and that , in particular , when broken into pieces by shaking their fragments , will survive and continue to cleave . |
| 5 | I was driving past and tried to stop this poor devil getting beaten up . |
| 6 | West Mercia Police tried to introduce this Israeli computer to monitor vehicle distance and speed . |
| 7 | Among others who came to support this good cause were the French Ambassador and Vicomtesse Luc de la Barre de Nanteuil , the Hon. |
| 8 | As I 'm sure you 'll understand , when I first came to see this awful situation I was consumed with a feeling of frustration — knowing , as I did then , that it could be some time before we 'd be in a position to intervene . |
| 9 | And when my father spoke about He got a holi they got a holiday from the school , that day , because the teacher came to see this old body going out the glen that 's body and they walked out , so it 'd be two miles out and then maybe another three miles up the er Glen Shee kirk here , so they had a good bit to carry him . |
| 10 | He seemed to find this next bit difficult to say . |
| 11 | True , all peasants still shared a common interest in the overthrow of the remaining traces of feudalism — including the tsarist regime itself — and the SR Party founded in 1901 came to express this common ground . |
| 12 | No-one deserved to win this uninspiring game ! |
| 13 | Even the Yorkshire aristocracy seemed to share this carefree attitude to time . |
| 14 | In the later phase of Mrs Thatcher 's government , Britain was in danger of being rudderless as nothing very obvious came to succeed this older source of authority . |
| 15 | Over eight million people came to admire this new concept of an environment where everything was intended to lift the spirits . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , we still have international meetings planned to discuss this very matter . |
| 17 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 18 | As the weeks went by , I naturally began to enjoy this new-found notoriety . |
| 19 | And Katherine began to like this young woman who swirled gracefully in front of the mirror . |
| 20 | A committee of seven bishops working with a team of 40 consultants began to draft this definite document in 1986 after Vatican criticisms of several local versions . |
| 21 | But in the years between Jane Austen 's death and the publication of Boz , the growth of interest in the actual past , promoted partly by the novels of Scott , began to disturb this peaceful co-existence by taking Gothic style more seriously — an alteration in attitude which can be illustrated by the difference between a Gothic novel like Udolpho , where ancient buildings are impressionistic , and an historical novel like Ivanhoe ( 1819 ) , rooted in fact and actual place . |
| 22 | To defy the man , to show him , he began to run this last lap . |
| 23 | The Faulks Committee failed to consider this unfair burden on the media , or to recommend the obvious reform that it should be borne by the plaintiff 's estate . |
| 24 | But Shevardnadze failed to endorse this neutral formula for Kampuchea for fear of straining Soviet-Vietnamese relations . |
| 25 | In ‘ Close Up ’ she manipulates colour with all the subtlety needed to re-create this elusive phenomenon on canvas . |
| 26 | When I decided to grant this private notice question , I took it to be a serious matter and I should like it to be taken seriously . |
| 27 | Norfolk has been for many years one of our Medau strongholds and it is for this reason that the Society decided to select this prestigious location . |
| 28 | There was a long silence , during which he decided to leave this unpromising subject . |
| 29 | The surface tension of a liquid is the minimum force needed to overcome this inward pull and thus expand the surface area . |
| 30 | What is certain is that Macmillan decided to ignore this powerful objection and acted ( as he had done in 1962 ) with utter determination and dispatch , making a definite recommendation of Home . |