Example sentences of "and [vb past] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRAVE Princess Diana put two weeks of torment behind her yesterday … and beamed this smile of relief . |
| 2 | They took a prominent part in the repulse of the Austrian attack in this sector in June 1918 , and countered this attack by raids on Austrian positions , in which they took several hundred prisoners . |
| 3 | That is to say , Libyans whose families had settled in the cities some generations before were perhaps exempt from this process ; but the majority of Libyans made their history in the same way , and shared this picture of the past . |
| 4 | There was obviously some sort of sexual element to it but I just did n't know what to do next and expected this man , who was about two or three years older than me , to , in some way , tell me or indicate to me and so I followed him without talking to him . |
| 5 | Kevin tried a few years ago and failed this time … he aims to make history … and if he does we 'll be there … |
| 6 | Her philosophy of life changed when she was 17 and met this girl who was from a really weird and fucked-up background , but who was ‘ so positive ’ . |
| 7 | Apparently erm , they often do this and of course , they sort of went into their home and got this girl with her friend and they sort of put the pegs on their noses and have these sort of rubber hats with those |
| 8 | And got this age . |
| 9 | Well , I think , I do n't know if they went back to the pits and sort of left , but he did n't want to stay there and and got this job as a gamekeeper . |
| 10 | These modes of thought are so deeply embedded in the collective conscious that ten years after the amalgamations , when the chief constable ( from the south ) replaced the flat cap with helmets , a number of ex-city men could not discuss the impending change without exhibiting distress and described this event as being something of an Armageddon , even though the expensive guard-style cap of the pre-amalgamation days had long since given way to what was always derided as ‘ a cheap and nasty alternative ’ . |
| 11 | On Aug. 19 Khan told reporters in New Delhi that the two sides had also agreed " to address the issue of Jammu and Kashmir " , and described this development as " a positive step forward " . |
| 12 | This must have given him great satisfaction for he used to refer to himself " as one who has been admitted a member of the great family of the deaf " , and described this family as " my people " . |
| 13 | Therefore , although skills are now embedded in all courses reviewed and validated this session , the range of skills is not as comprehensive as is deemed to be desirable by the University . |
| 14 | Yet thousands of men , fathers of families , must have lain with a prostitute at some time , and caught this disease . |
| 15 | I bought this plot of land and built this bungalow on it . |
| 16 | What this implies is that a group of people who , as consumers , constructed and sustained this image of the individualist tradition also , as producers , constructed the very image of change , community and modernity to which it is opposed . |
| 17 | Above all things he wanted to see McAllister 's bright and bubbling face , and she had been unwontedly shy and subdued this morning . |
| 18 | The painter Patrick Heron wrote for the New Statesman in London in the 1950s , and used this technique for writing about Braque , whom he compared with Picasso . |
| 19 | He formed a united clan , largely through family ties amongst army officers , and used this clan for his own purposes . |
| 20 | ( b ) The other person is at least 13 but less than 16 years of age and the actor is a member of the same household as the victim , the actor is related to the victim by blood or affinity to the fourth degree to the victim , or the actor is in a position of authority over the victim and used this authority to coerce the victim to submit . |
| 21 | So they actually bench marked the maintenance phase of the project and found this approach to be three hundred percent more productive than the approach we showed on the previous slide . |
| 22 | On giving up the mastership , Plummer became verger of the royal free chapel of St George at Windsor Castle , with important administrative as well as processional duties , and retained this post until his presumed death in 1484 . |
| 23 | This leaflet is produced by the Health Education Council in conjunction with the organisers of The Great British Bike Ride , an annual sponsored bike ride from Land 's End to John o' Groats organised by Bike Events and sponsored this year , once again , for Friends of the Earth . |
| 24 | As he stood in the torrential rain , and peered this way and that , the Mason and Garvey stood with their arms round each other 's shoulders , in the doorway of the inn , watching him in puzzled amusement . |
| 25 | From the beginning and maintained this position rigorously to the end despite very heavy pressures . |
| 26 | The Normans are a famously stingy race , and doubtless their gravediggers are no exception ; perhaps they resent every superfluous sod they cut , and maintained this resentment as a professional tradition from 1846 to 1880 . |
| 27 | ‘ Then we moved an hour 's journey out of Los Angeles , and created this mountain-top Shangri-La . |
| 28 | She also set about losing her virginity , and accomplished this feat without difficulty , but without much pleasure , in her first term . |
| 29 | Woody Allen wrote and directed this comedy in which he stars as New Yorker Isaac Davis who is in love with his city but disgruntled with his job as a TV comedy writer . |
| 30 | ‘ The first time , ’ he said , ‘ I was standing at Sandown airport and told this man that Frank Spencer was flying the plane that was coming down to land . |