Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] this " in BNC.
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| 31 | I changed it this morning , I 've had all them glasses out |
| 32 | He told them This Island Story from Wat Tyler 's point of view . |
| 33 | She told them this in confidence , because the master did n't know — he suspected , apparently , which explains why he went off Theo , but they 'd always denied it . |
| 34 | And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and he told them this parable saying , what man among you , if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the open pasture and go out to the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 35 | Oh you told them this the other day when we were there ! |
| 36 | So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money . |
| 37 | Since Siah told me this story about a supreme storyteller , 1 have told the story myself many times . |
| 38 | My mum always tells me I 'm the most beautiful woman in the world ; she told me this even when I had chickenpox ! ’ |
| 39 | I know that he kicked and punched me ; I know he told me this was what I wanted , that no one would ever love me , and this was all I was fit for ; and I know he raped me . |
| 40 | The LA police told me this . |
| 41 | He told me this gaily , as if it did not much matter whether I believed it or no . |
| 42 | When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton . |
| 43 | A woman in her forties told me this . |
| 44 | A padlocked deer gate told me this was not a public path . |
| 45 | I do not really like being touched by a stranger since I had been mildly attacked as a child , but something told me this was no casual greeting . |
| 46 | ‘ That , more or less , is what Miss Henry told me this afternoon , ’ she admitted . |
| 47 | The evangelist Leighton Ford , who told me this story some years ago , used it to illustrate the fear of many churches of the evangelist coming in and bringing all kinds of disturbing , unsavoury characters into the church . |
| 48 | A spokesman told me this week : ‘ It 's a top-shelf title . |
| 49 | Aunt Kit told me this rather aggressively , so I think the implacably moral — and romantic — decision was almost certainly hers : she has the nature for high-minded renunciations , grand gestures , and had , at this time , already taken to drink . |
| 50 | He told me this week that he was convinced by West 's ‘ karate theory ’ at the time . |
| 51 | I was very sorry when you told me this morning of your decision to resign from the Government . |
| 52 | She told me this with her lips , not her voice . |
| 53 | Bill Janovitz 's sister ( a psychic told me this ) |
| 54 | He told me this morning . ’ |
| 55 | ( Both of them told me this ! ) ’ |
| 56 | Bailey told me this morning . |
| 57 | ( I can picture the laibon as he told me this , his son sitting behind him on a rock flossing his teeth . ) |
| 58 | Her scream of delight told me this was a good time to move away . |
| 59 | He told me this and that , but I listened with only half an ear . |
| 60 | He told me this morning that he thought the boy had been working too hard . ’ |