Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 2 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 3 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 4 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 5 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 6 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 7 | Mm , mm I 'd of put them in the , even with these new glasses I these dark ones , you know the dark ones I had to put them on this morning I had to put these dark glasses on cos the light hurt me eyes , so I had to put these on |
| 8 | He had to explain it to this man . |
| 9 | Wendy Bell ( Private & Offshore Banking , Edinburgh ) and Judith Stobbie ( Branch Services , Edinburgh ) who were in last year 's winning team failed to make it to this year 's final . |