Example sentences of "this [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This caused me to regrade double jacquard . |
| 2 | This caused him to invent Ambivalent Music , which you ca n't quite tell if you are listening to or not ( see Ambulance house music … ) |
| 3 | When this happened she had one option ; there was only one other perch available : my fist . |
| 4 | This showed it to have formal negotiating agreements at ten of the principal ports of England , Scotland and Wales and at three in Ireland , and to have ad hoc local wage agreements at substantially all the rest . |
| 5 | This enabled him to tell old jokes as if they were new and made him one of the ‘ all time great ’ story tellers . |
| 6 | This enabled them to handle global constraints on the sentence . |
| 7 | In that year he began campaigning against the brutal system of forced labour employed by Leopold II , king of the Belgians , as absolute personal ruler of the Congo Free State , even though this forced him to leave Elder Dempster , where he had become head of the Congo department . |