Example sentences of "this he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This he continued to do until his illness confined him first to his room and finally to his bed . |
| 2 | This he continued to do — between jaw-jutting in that peculiar Mussolini-meets-Foghorn Leghorn manner of his — until the brass-necked wonder that is still ‘ It 's On ’ . |
| 3 | To achieve this he takes in atmospheric air at the water surface and blows out mucus coated bubbles which adhere to each other and also to plant matter . |
| 4 | This he achieved by using his knowledge of Zen , an ancient philosophy that he has studied ‘ on and off ’ for many years . |
| 5 | In this he achieved a remarkable fluency without the benefit of grammar or vocabulary . |
| 6 | This he achieved , securing the right for the curia to receive appeals , summon synods and approve bishops . |
| 7 | This he achieved by getting along to the Frog and Ferret at about eleven each morning , where he spent hours in conversation with George ‘ This is My Coronary ’ Parker . |
| 8 | To do this he sent me to another sort of specialist who inserted through my neck a needle containing blue dye , guided it with the help of a television screen into the top of my spinal cord and then watched its progress as it trickled down . |
| 9 | This he hoped would enforce freedom of the seas and promote freedom of international trade . |
| 10 | This he tested on a single patient in 1755 . |
| 11 | Immediately after this he announced that he intended to marry her . |
| 12 | For this he relied upon Reg. v. Apicella ( 1985 ) 82 Cr.App.R. 295 and Director of Public Prosecutions v. Marshall [ 1988 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 13 | This he grew long and combed up , due north . |
| 14 | After a few minutes of this he grew breathless with anger and rage and flurried his wings so much that he was hardly able to lift them any more he was so tired . |
| 15 | This he passed eventually to Richard Hakluyt [ q.v. ] for publication in his Principall Navigations in 1589 . |
| 16 | This he effected by intervention in the local state on ground cleared by the trades boards , the attempted decasualisation of dock labour , and the use of local authority workforces to promote more radical demands on the national state for solutions to crises experienced in local economies . |
| 17 | For this he cites Pinnel 's Case . |
| 18 | When Rameshwar read this he went to Tukaram and praised his greatness and goodness . |
| 19 | Making a sound in his throat , he turned his head away , then said , ‘ Funny thing , but neither am I ; yet I 've had to get used to it ; ’ and on this he went out , leaving Millie looking at the big fat woman and feeling she must make conversation : ‘ It 's a beautiful morning , ’ she said . |
| 20 | When he was angry like this he went berserk , she knew . |
| 21 | From this he took a photograph which he passed across to Mrs Wilson . |
| 22 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 23 | After what seemed like a good twenty minutes of this he took a handful of rice from a gourd at his belt and scattered it over the waters . |
| 24 | In this he took as models all the most up-to-date Italian works with which he boasts his acquaintance : Monteverdi 's Vespers , Giovanni Gabrieli 's Second Book of Sacrae Symphoniae , the works of Viadana and Agazzari . |
| 25 | He was still confronting me in a pugnacious attitude , but at this he took a step back . |
| 26 | Being asked how he knew this he says that each carucate of land by the custom of the district contains one hundred and four score acres of arable land , which quantity there is not in that Manor . |
| 27 | Why not have a go at this he says ! |
| 28 | So Adam and Eve they go and hide , but it 's not just Adam and Eve , but it 's every one of us , they 're just pictures , they 're representatives of you and of me , they are the federal head of the human race , and Paul with his writing in Romans three , and verse twenty three reminds us , and J B Phillips in his translation , he puts it like this he says every one has sinned , every one falls short of the beauty of God 's plan , that plan , that purpose that God had , not just for creation , not just for humanity in general , but for you as an individual , that purpose that God had , that beautiful plan , far better than you can could work out , out for yourself falling short of it , we 've marred it , we have n't come up to it , if that circle represented just as a diagram as a picture , God 's plan God 's beautiful plan for you and for me still a circle , but dented here , bashed in there |
| 29 | and he 's going like this he says they 're no bloody good these . |
| 30 | He believed his son disliked him and this he thought outrageous . |