Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I got to my door I found that I had this cement cock in my pocket . |
| 2 | But now she announced that she wished this title to be publicly used . |
| 3 | Not one of you noticed that I dipped this finger into the samples but licked another one . |
| 4 | Although Richard claimed that he took this initiative in the hope of bringing about peace so that the crusade could get under way , his father objected strongly , presumably on the grounds that the general position of the Angevins would be weakened if they admitted the principle that their disputes could be settled in their overlord 's court . |
| 5 | ‘ Tests showed that she had this condition , and it has deteriorated over the years . |
| 6 | The dislocation happened and he saw this stout , handsomely dressed man , almost gasping m front of a pale-eyed , pale-faced clergyman , the two of them in the consecrated atmosphere of a church which could trace back its foundation on that spot through about thirteen hundred years . |
| 7 | My insight into my own motivations in ‘ choosing ’ anorexia began when I read this statement : ‘ Addiction , obesity , starvation ( anorexia nervosa ) are political problems , not psychiatric ; each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual 's body . ’ |
| 8 | We 're talking about 1970 , 69–70 , and I decided that I liked this kind of … . |
| 9 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
| 10 | It was a hand sort of saw that they did this ripping of the wood with . |
| 11 | The document was in the name of Mustafa Ibn Assaad Shihada Zamzam , Mrs Zamzam 's husband , and when she saw that I recognised this type of British mandate deed Mrs Zamzam 's face lit up as if a great discovery had been made . |
| 12 | One felt that he regarded this task , the task of gaining ‘ spiritual freedom ’ , as the supreme , and never quite realizable , end of the religious life , with which no form of humanism could compete . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , Fernando — ’ she turned her face to his ‘ — now I know what you meant when you called this morning — that Steve would need a friend , need my support . ’ |
| 14 | The rage and hatred I felt as I wrote this letter was terrifying , like a sudden , violent illness . |
| 15 | Of course Tracey why she 's upset is because she said that she had this examiner |
| 16 | I met the promoter at a party and he was looking for an opening act and I said that I had this dance band which would be a perfect opener for Gary Glitter and he took us on . |
| 17 | Twenty-four hours , the way her luck ran when it concerned this man . |
| 18 | Mr Heselton , I understood you said when we started this debate that you were eight hundred and fifty short , or thereabouts , of Mr Curtis 's pro-rata figure , which was four thousand two hundred . |