Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organic molecules broken down in this way release virtually as much energy as they are capable of releasing — so such ‘ oxidative ’ breakdown is extremely efficient . |
| 2 | But the child protection system had broken down in this instance , not because of the excessive timidity or woolliness of social workers who missed the warning signs and failed to act , but because of their over confidence in medical diagnoses and their ready reliance on compulsory measures to remove the children . |
| 3 | this is the er survival technique take your coat off supposing you in London tube and it 's broken down plus this thing 's not as useful , do you remember what happened , know how starts to get cold , take you w wearing a coat in winter take your coat off |
| 4 | As the media caught on to this aspect of the cult , it caused some skins to leave the movement and more violent people to join it . |
| 5 | Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country . |
| 6 | Or the quarry would have carried on with this slate mine . |
| 7 | If things carried on at this pace , she and Johnny would find themselves meeting every day . |
| 8 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 9 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 10 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 11 | The ladies ' K4 500m was slotted in at this point and although Dallaway/Davey/Eastwood/Thorogood were 8th in their heat they went into a semi final which acted as a repêchage . |
| 12 | No money from any of the manager 's other interests could be mixed in with this account , and the manager should not be allowed to borrow money from it . |
| 13 | The disappointment Haslam inevitably felt at being let down in this way led to a second turning point in his career and one of those ‘ negative accidents ’ that ultimately proved to have a positive outcome . |
| 14 | Married women were more likely than single mothers to be let down in this way , and such women were particularly likely to develop depression . |
| 15 | In other words , not only do we not have in front of us an exact cost for the works that are being voted through in this Bill — we have to go on the basis of an outdated figure of £1.4 billion , which is in itself an enormous amount — but the Government are saying that they do not have the foggiest idea whether the amount involved will accord with their investment criteria . |
| 16 | They will certainly have the fullest support of my Department and the Government in that and I hope that they will have the fullest support of Opposition Members , too , although that has not come through in this debate . |
| 17 | Maggie could n't help but be won over by this appeal on her mother 's behalf . |
| 18 | The Liverpool manager was seething with rage after his defender David Burrows was carried off in this Coca-Cola Cup tie with a severe knee injury that will keep him out for at least three months . |
| 19 | ‘ All Bonanza has to do now is stay out of sight until a good tale is dreamed up to account for two of his boys getting mixed up in this thing last night , and a few unimpeachable witnesses to make the tale stick , and we all go back where we started . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So your next natural thought was that the only short fat man who could be mixed up in this shooting was me ? |
| 21 | What monstrous vanity makes them conclude the memory wants to be clogged up with this sort of rubbish ? |
| 22 | After lots of thought I 've come up with this solution and hope it will be helpful to others . |
| 23 | The career of artists as diverse as Queen and Public Enemy would have been very different if Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards had n't come up with this landmark tune . |
| 24 | Guy 's come up with this patent for a new system from America which cuts turn-around time in the garment-sewing factories by some amazing percentage and — ’ |
| 25 | This is not the first time the issue of control has come up in this column but because yours is a sign that tends to resist going with the flow , all too often you meet people and circumstances that appear to block your path . |
| 26 | How different a picture is conjured up by this remark : |
| 27 | Back in Manchester a glossy fanzine called Muze had picked up on this story and published a naively frivolous article which dared to question the somewhat confused ethical position of the band . |
| 28 | In other cases the particular translation of a sign may fail to show similarity : the Danish and British signs for WOMAN are different , but the British sign LADY resembles the Danish sign WOMAN ; such information is not picked up by this method of data collection . |
| 29 | He seemed more caught up with this coincidence than interested in the school he had come to see , Sara decided . |
| 30 | For girls caught up in this nexus of processes , the effect is that the feminine role , the ‘ little housewife ’ role and self-definition are blended together in an ‘ unselfconscious complex of unobstructed behaviour ’ . |