Example sentences of "in this [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet once they have collaborated in this verbal insincerity they reveal an extent of human viciousness no one could have expected . |
| 2 | Even so , in this simple organism you can see the first hint of a fish . |
| 3 | In this solemn moment they both gazed abstractedly at the sweet trolley . |
| 4 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 5 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 6 | Imagine , if you will , one Aztec priest arguing with another in the year 1452 : ‘ I have made calculations that indicate it is nearly impossible for intelligent beings to exist in this hypothetical world you call Europe . |
| 7 | He pointed out : ‘ In this current year we are getting something like £4.5 million . |
| 8 | I think surely we can not deny the facts that the police have received very good funding from this authority , and indeed in this current budget they continue to do so . |
| 9 | ‘ The British have a long history of being inventive and in this current climate we are being inundated with new ideas , ’ says Richard Paine , marketing director of Inventalink , one of Britain 's biggest agencies which sells the ideas to commercial companies . |
| 10 | as colleagues who are involved will know is just about the only industry in the building materials sector that has n't made some kind of pay offer in this current round it 's very much bringing up the rear and we 're determined to use what industrial strength we have to change the employer 's stance otherwise we 're very concerned that the national negotiation missionary , this will be his death knell since we 'll have to resort to local pay bargaining , so the short answer is E C C er , will be balloted as far as the G M B is concerned union and , er , T & G are balloting in for industrial action to try to change the employers ' position . |
| 11 | In this hilarious fashion we left Auckland and made our way north through the imaginatively-named Northland . |
| 12 | I ca n't afford to stay in this awful dump I 'm in for long . ’ |
| 13 | To what I suppose would happen possibly about eighty percent of the time , where you 're working , you 've worked yourself off to do a superb drawing of a house all day , and er , the branch manager or whoever it may be , is walking round passing quotes , and walks off not really showing any general interest in this superb picture I 've just spent all my time doing . |
| 14 | In this modern world we must both see that people obey the law and also be compassionate . |
| 15 | By dressing up deprivation in this spatial vocabulary it is possible to hide the more unpalatable realities of economic restructuring , redundancy and exploitation . |
| 16 | In this final section we look at some examples . |
| 17 | In this final section we illuminate these very different theories and prescriptions through a series of case studies . |
| 18 | In this final section I would like to attempt to answer some of the questions raised in the introduction , using the evidence of teachers ' views expressed in the survey to support my argument . |
| 19 | Nonetheless , it is always useful to have some general guidelines , and in this final chapter I have gathered together many of the points that , from my personal experience , are worth bearing in mind when embarking on such a project . |
| 20 | They have white filters , and I am concerned lest in this poor light I should mistakenly set fire to the wrong end . |
| 21 | Looking into those calm , assured faces in this odd setting I felt a stab of the futile longing to communicate that Alan Moorehead described on meeting a family of gorillas . |
| 22 | In this revised format you present material from your literature review , paradoxically , at the end ( under " relation to existing work " ) , where you examine implications and applications . |
| 23 | In this self-righteous mood he drove home . |
| 24 | Even in this restricted form it is possible to write essentially different programs which are nevertheless semantically equivalent . |
| 25 | It would appear that in this moral stance they were backed by public opinion . |
| 26 | In this political struggle it is also obvious that non-urban areas can not expect to receive equal treatment because politically their numbers are too small to count against the majority , who being concentrated , can receive more social provision at cheaper cost . |
| 27 | In this latter case we get to simples by a process of ‘ Abstraction ’ . |
| 28 | In this latter case it is important to realise that we should expect to get true hyphenated justification or H&J as it is commonly known . |
| 29 | In other words , they view the future as involving little radical change ; in this latter scenario it is possible to foresee a situation in which the existing broadcasting organizations continue to operate effectively and efficiently , albeit with some modifications . |
| 30 | In this regional centre we have 15 schools and two colleges , but we have very limited supplies of paper and carbons for the year and there are no stencils . |