Example sentences of "[prep] this [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something about this worried me . |
| 2 | Heard about this have you ? |
| 3 | A performance such as this persuades us that such assessments are quite wide of the mark , and almost as unjust as the neglect of Summer 's Last Will . |
| 4 | It was the longest afternoon that I had known and it was worse when I heard the sound of tea being prepared downstairs for this made me even more hungry . |
| 5 | She also realised that — at the moment — Silas appeared to be annoyed with Doreen , but the reason for this escaped her . |
| 6 | For this to happen we need those who are actively involved in terrorism to reject it . |
| 7 | In order for this to happen it is imperative to educate people in general so that we may have a much greater knowledge of the fundamental causes of both health and ill-health . |
| 8 | In order for this to happen it is necessary to ‘ activate forces within the system to alter the system ’ . |
| 9 | I had a satellite mirror found in a quarry , and took i used this It was a mould for this to get it a perfect parabolic shape . |
| 10 | For this convinced him of how essential was religious practice to all civilizations . |
| 11 | ‘ Skin absorbs what it needs within around ten minutes , so any greasiness left after this means you 're applying too much . ’ |
| 12 | And er after this did you move back to Edinburgh ? |
| 13 | An understanding of this renders it much easier to comprehend the no evidence doctrine and the reasons for the exceptions made to it in more recent years . |
| 14 | The unfairness of this strikes me , since although we are all from families that vote Labour ( no working-class Catholic would vote Unionist ) Jimmy had been the only one in the class who 'd known that Hugh Gaitskell was the leader of the Opposition in the general knowledge quiz . |
| 15 | Nobody had spoken of this new responsible attitude , because to do so would be to admit that his behaviour had previously left something to be desired , and my mother had spent too much time in implicit denial of this to waste it all now . |
| 16 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 17 | All of this helps us to realise that a great miracle lies in the very handing on of faith . |
| 18 | These were slow to develop , and the realisation of this made it difficult ( even had they wished to do so ) for Ministers to treat them like private sector companies , subject largely to control by fiscal and monetary policies rather than detailed intervention on capital spending . |
| 19 | Another twenty minutes of this reduces me to a disorientated wreck , near to tears and vomiting . |
| 20 | I doubt if I would ever have been quite to aware of this had we not gone through this disaster . |
| 21 | He had had his suit cleaned and pressed though the cost of this appalled him . |
| 22 | I know none of this interests you any longer , he wrote , and that you hold yourself , or pretend to hold yourself , aloof from the world , and in particular from the world of art . |
| 23 | The tiny white fruiting bodies of this provide them with their food . |
| 24 | The mention of this allowed him to express once more how ‘ utterly desperate ’ a place England was . |
| 25 | The implications of this astonished me . |
| 26 | All of this leaves us asking what we will hand on to our children , to our neighbours and to our friends . |
| 27 | Do n't let any of this worry you ; it just means we 've added your ‘ short ’ address form so you can post to and get off the list when you want to . |
| 28 | None of this surprises me . |
| 29 | She said , ‘ How much of this did you do ? ’ |
| 30 | All of this makes it very attractive for the application which Luck and Swanson have been working on — the construction of switched capacitor filter circuits . |