Example sentences of "[vb pp] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have prefaced this last thought with the word " ideally " since I know it is not something that is at all easy to achieve . |
| 2 | Mr Chin had foreseen this difficulty and made sure that no child had majority control of any of the family companies . |
| 3 | Johnson finds fault justifiably with Woodhouse 's early verse ; however , Woodhouse did become a good poet , though there is no reason why Johnson should have foreseen this . |
| 4 | Lanfranc , who had a practical mind , had foreseen this need when he was still prior of Bec , and had put together a collection of Canon Law , which stood him in good stead as archbishop . |
| 5 | Perhaps Morrison had foreseen this , yet in the event it was a considerate and generous letter , sent from 10 Downing Street in Attlee 's own hand , which did much to help to avert the potential embarrassment of losing from his Government not only the Attorney General , but also one of Labour 's coming men . |
| 6 | There is only one exception to this closing date , that is if you can not vote in person because you are ill , and you could not have foreseen this on the closing date for applications . |
| 7 | ‘ No one could have foreseen this . ’ |
| 8 | Of all the things they could have foreseen and prevented how could they possibly have foreseen this ? |
| 9 | Trade figures with the EC are delayed this year because of the removal of customs controls thanks to the single market . |
| 10 | Crocker 's cautious approach to the electricity showroom , his quick sidelong glances , called to mind days long gone by when Wexford , then a sixth-form boy , had witnessed this same man as a child of ten , scuttling up to front doors playing ‘ Knocking Down Ginger ’ . |
| 11 | I have witnessed this expansion in parts of North America for nearly 60 years , first working as a student with a pitchfork on the harvest in Alberta . |
| 12 | She had witnessed this event before . |
| 13 | In fact , we have witnessed this very scenario on so many occasions we could not even begin to discuss them . |
| 14 | But my wife , who is a Russian speaker , has witnessed this particular drama and says it is n't a Slav language . |
| 15 | The ten years that had witnessed this transformation were precisely those occupied by Morrison as secretary of the newly-formed London Labour Party ( LLP ) . |
| 16 | For example , a large number ( 16 per cent. ) thought that the police had used unnecessary violence towards themselves , or that an acquaintance had experienced or witnessed this . |
| 17 | It is true that all advanced industrial societies have witnessed this shift but none to the same extent as this country . |
| 18 | ‘ Sources close to these clever men — in distance , that is to say , not philosophy — last week informed our coterie of the cruel nature of these … in-vest-igations , the effects of which you have yourself witnessed this very evening . ’ |
| 19 | Because , ’ she qualified hastily as he broke stride to look narrowly at her , ‘ I 've never travelled this way before . |
| 20 | By March 8 an estimated 20,000 Albanians had travelled this route in around 15 vessels . |
| 21 | It was not just her station in life which precluded choice but life itself and she felt foolish not to have realised this long ago . |
| 22 | as at present there are three 2.5 litre turbo diesel engines in use — the VM in the Range Rover , the 200 TDi in the Discovery and the 2.5 in the Defender — or it may be that the Land Rover unit is not as reliable as other Land Rovers have been and Land Rover Ltd have realised this . ? |
| 23 | The dream to join the two ramps together to make a 32ft wide superramp was finally realised this year and the work was completed in March . |
| 24 | Napoleon had fought one of his early battles at Toulon , but Rose-Marie had n't realised this until Catriona pointed it out . |
| 25 | She was taken to a psychiatric hospital but doctors soon realised this girl trapped in a world of witches was no ordinary vagrant . |
| 26 | But doctors soon realised this girl trapped in a world of witches was no ordinary vagrant . |
| 27 | The Emperor would have realised this , despite his later astonishing assertion that the bridge was capable of allowing the passage of six vehicles travelling abreast ! |
| 28 | Once we have realised this , the Possibilities of the child as artist are immense . |
| 29 | ‘ Paul , I do n't know if you have realised this yet , but I am not the understudy to the part of the father . |
| 30 | Whatever people say to him in confidence and whatever they may say in twos or threes , if he had been here when the issue was raised on the Floor of the House only a week or so ago he would have realised — indeed he was here so he should have realised this instantly — that the leaders of the groups might come to an — |