Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 He had brought with him reading that was expected of him during this vacation , works on sociology and on linguistics and some where these two studies converged , but these were not the sort of books one much wanted to read under the hot sun and the influence of wine .
2 As we discovered in Part One , many of the initiators of conflict in later life are learned and impressed upon us at this vital period .
3 That is not a matter where the parties are sufficiently advanced for it to be addressed to me at this stage .
4 Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case .
5 No more is heard of him after this , although Kympton was acting as agent for the commissioners of the sick and wounded at Plymouth in 1703 .
6 As an adopted ball for LTA sanctioned events , ( adoption into the LTA Sponsors Ball Pool ) , it has already been selected for us in this country at the 14 , 16 and 18 and under Midland Bank Junior Championships .
7 If you are new to machine knitting and the electronic is your first machine and you want to know more about these accessories , I 've written about them in this month 's Silver punchcard feature .
8 They were first noticed by Poynting and the effect is named after him in this branch of materials science .
9 But serious allegations had already been made against him by this date .
10 The only charge that can be made against you at this moment is of theft from our house , however that may be read hereafter .
11 At the time of writing it seems that digital tape recorders sold to the public will have various anti-piracy measures built into them for this very reason .
12 Presented to them like this , dace can do hardly anything else but accept your bait .
13 If the parties had not agreed on the naming of the appointing authority , or if the authority which agreed on nominating declines to appoint the arbitrator or is unable to nominate him within sixty days of the date of receiving the request which one of the parties presented to it in this regard , each of the parties may ask the Secretary-General of the Permanent Arbitration Court to nominate an appointing authority .
14 His special preserve was Cwm Idwal , and to be shown round that magnificent place , to have its intimacies and grand structure both explained and revealed to you by this gentle , wise old quarryman was one of life 's great pleasures , to be stored and cherished in memory .
15 Father , why has no word been said to us of this matter ? ’
16 An example of such a clause is the following which was found in the Foreign Compensation Act 1950 , a statute setting up a body known as the Foreign Compensation Commission : ‘ The determination by the commission of any application made to them under this Act shall not be called in question in any court of law . ’
17 The statute provided that : ‘ The determination by the Commission of any application made to them under this Act shall not be called in question in any court of law . ’
18 That enhancement scheme is being prepared now and reference should be made to it in this document in respect of .
19 ‘ Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him under this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the fifth level on the standard scale or to both .
20 Moreover , recent surveys have suggested that not so many members of these societies are ‘ literate ’ by the standards expected than had previously been assumed : in the UK it is now held that over one million people have an acquaintance with literacy that is insufficient for the demands made on them by this kind of society ( DES , 1980 ) .
21 The Secretary of State shall lay before both Houses of Parliament a draft of any code of practice prepared by him under this section .
22 Richard Baxter was deeply shocked by this tragedy and also by the general prejudice aroused against him by this incident .
23 We do n't know what he had thought about it before this moment when Jesus spoke directly ‘ Follow me ’ .
24 We 've just talked about it in this room .
25 I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department …
26 Beautiful though your age is , many though the intellects that adorn it , and ugly though my age is , cruel many of its leaders , I believe that the period from which I come is to be preferred to yours in this respect .
27 No one had ever talked to her like this before , and she was n't at all sure how the game — if it really was a game — should be played .
28 On a similar tack , Guttersnipe would be intrigued to discover whether Mr Wahlberg was responsible for any more than 20 per cent of the many sexual peccadilloes attributed to him in this column .
29 Wasim , though has been reprimanded by Lancashire for comments attributed to him in this book .
30 Yes , one , one thing has occurred to me about this in trying to deal with forms , it seems to me that trying to put a date on a day on it , is absolutely hopeless .
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