Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [adv] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It is not true that I only play this game for money .
2 Being a mere composite from charnel houses , I fear that I alone undergo this sorrow behind the eyebrows .
3 I unashamedly admit that I sometimes use this song as a form of social control .
4 Helen amused herself with the pretence that she always lived this way .
5 Naturally she pointed out that she never sought this adulation , quite the opposite , and was frankly horrified by media attention .
6 The most curious thing is that we actually esteem this sort of thinking and consider it clever instead of facile .
7 What organizing principles must the cells have so that they reliably give this pattern , even when the cells are rearranged and the length of the line varies ?
8 It has to be said that he also invoked this oath against his barons when it suited him to do so , as in 1301 : it served against the laity no less than against the clergy .
9 If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him .
10 To have asked him to be a godfather had crossed my mind ; but I knew that he already held this office in plurality .
11 I know that he recently considered this matter at a meeting with the northern TECs , but will he further consider the plight of some regions where costs are slightly higher than in , say , the south-east ?
12 It is possible that the subject retained a single letter in the form of a visual representation of the acoustic stimulus and that he subsequently matched this representation against the visually presented probe stimulus .
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