Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it shot it went down shot it through this barrel and inside was hydrogen gas and as it went through |
| 2 | This girl just told me about this Polo factory outlet up near Canada … you can get a $200 knitted sweater for , like $20 — that 's outrageous ! ’ |
| 3 | Some things needed to change , but some needed to remain the same and I usually found myself in this place pulling at the forces of change as a child might pull at the reins of a runaway horse . |
| 4 | Yet I recall an episode many years ago in which a man deliberately put himself in this predicament . |
| 5 | Also , by implication , Bukharin was challenging the views of Rosa Luxemburg , and all who since followed her in this matter , in her assumption that arms production is a field for the creation of surplus-value . |
| 6 | His familiarity with every stick and stone of it probably helped him to this preference . |
| 7 | Benstede swept through the hall and tactfully presented himself before this array of the most powerful magnates in Scotland . |
| 8 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 9 | ‘ What really attracted me to this hat was its shape — it reminded me of the ones American tourists wear . ’ |
| 10 | Her imagination , which often inconvenienced her in this way , began to suggest that , naturally , this remote valley would be the haunt of rabid , starving packs of feral dogs . |
| 11 | He accompanied King James on the visit which he made to Scotland to impose episcopacy , and in his sermons there supported him in this venture , which was to have calamitous results for the monarchy in the next reign . |
| 12 | Deng closely aligned himself with this stance . |
| 13 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 14 | Into the uneasy silence , while brother looked most earnestly at brother , and wondered , and sought or evaded the eyes of his neighbours , Brother Cadfael said : ‘ Brother Abbot , I have thoughts to share that never visited me until this morning , but are become very relevant now . |
| 15 | And she actually took me on this war work . |
| 16 | A record shows , 'The inhabitants of the place said we never saw it in this fashion before ; we were left to wander and none cared for our souls ; but now a brighter day has dawned for us . ’ |
| 17 | Fred cheated his clients , of course ; but he never did it at this stage of a transaction . |
| 18 | You never had it on this morning ? |