Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daniel told them how at this time God had so loved the world that he had sent his only son to give it life , to be made just like them , so that God might live man 's life and man might through him come close to God . |
| 2 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 3 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
| 4 | ‘ Listen , ’ she said , ‘ someone told me today about this survey in a women 's magazine . |
| 5 | It has its own associated pattern of atmospheric circulation , named after Sir Gilbert Walker who identified it early in this century ( Figure 3 ) , and it is also associated with changes in the pattern of surface temperature . |
| 6 | Looking at his glistening face , his cheeks and forehead like apple-skins , Cameron wondered what fired him most at this moment — self-satisfaction ? or a true pleasure in poetic language ? |
| 7 | Those were the facts , as far as he knew them up to this moment . |
| 8 | To keep the training crew occupied I sent them away to this vessel for a day 's rummage and to my pleasant surprise it was not long before they returned with the news that they had unearthed a vast cache of spirits and cigarettes in the ship 's hospital . |
| 9 | Then when you had grown enough and mother had carried you there nearly a year , God opened a door for you and brought you out into this world . |
| 10 | Ebbo , added Charles , often took her up on this promise . |
| 11 | He really took it out of this photographer , and I can tell you he 's lucky to be alive today . |
| 12 | It was n't real muslin but she made it out of this material . |
| 13 | Steven put me through to this Gwyllam |
| 14 | Well he had this environment mental officer , they they in inaugurated him then at this meeting meeting when erm the thing you handed over |
| 15 | And I did it again in this case , with Downes . |
| 16 | Something that struck me personally at this period was that he had a most strange and cultivated sense of humour . |
| 17 | But they 're all going to wonder why I dragged you along at this time of night . |
| 18 | That possibly meant that she had something else on this weekend . |
| 19 | Hendrix had just managed to squeeze his way into the '70s when the Grim Reaper of rock 'n' roll dragged him out of this world , leaving only the man 's music and ‘ wild man ’ image behind for future generations to remember him by . |
| 20 | We also wrote it especially for this chapter . |
| 21 | Tony had it on with this Delight Clover Light . |
| 22 | He got us away from this chink that runs the sect , but he 's injured an ’ wo n't stand a chance . |