Example sentences of "[prep] this [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , I ca n't help feeling a little anxious about this relish he is revealing for anarchy . |
| 2 | But mind , I will say this about this chappie he does stick to it . |
| 3 | About this time he started to wonder whether he ought to be a monk . |
| 4 | At about this time he acquired the churches of Brightwalton and Melton Mowbray , gifts from the monks of Battle and Lewes . |
| 5 | At about this time he returned to Courthill to assist his father , and so he was able to use all the resources of the smithy to make the kind of machine that was in his mind . |
| 6 | In the end I bullied Andy , I said , Andy there is something fishy about this fire he said well it 's possible he said that it was erm a display model and every time anybody came in and needed a replacement part instead of sending for the part they took it out of the display model ! |
| 7 | During this presentation he will also outline : |
| 8 | He stated that during this period he was interrogated and beaten on a daily basis . |
| 9 | During this period he was active in public service in Wales , and devoted himself to the development of scouting , and became a friend of Sir Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of the Boy Scout movement . |
| 10 | During this period he remained in regular touch with his Russian controller , giving him details of all the work he handled . |
| 11 | During this period he also wrote the first act of the ‘ sacred Singspiel ’ Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots ( 9 ) the remaining acts being written by Michael Haydn ( l737–l806 then Konzertmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and Anton Adlgasser ( 1729–1777 , court and cathedral organist in Salzburg ) . |
| 12 | It was Eliot 's belief that if Christianity disappeared our civilization would disappear with it , and in his letters to friends during this period he gave the impression that this process was already far advanced . |
| 13 | When he was told of a young man who wished to become a poet , Eliot replied , " He 's getting ready for a sad life " , and Ronald Duncan said that during this period he looked " miserable and unwell " and " began to affect many signs of premature old age " . |
| 14 | There had always been something of the fairground barker about Mr Broadhurst and during this period he enhanced it . |
| 15 | During this period he became friendly with the poet John Clare [ q.v. ] , a frequent visitor at Milton from 1820 . |
| 16 | During this period he contracted to serve Edward for life and from 1317 he was summoned to Parliament . |
| 17 | During this period he also studied painting under Charles Lucy [ q.v. ] in London and Paris , and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1849 , 1850 , and 1851 . |
| 18 | During this period he collected well over 80,000 ancient coins and other objects which first provided a chronology of the dynasties of central Asia in the unknown centuries after the death of Alexander the Great . |
| 19 | During this period he made a parachute descent from a balloon at 10,500 feet to investigate ‘ swinging ’ . |
| 20 | During this period he became interested in the adulteration of tobacco , an issue of considerable importance in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 21 | During this period he also led the British expedition to observe the transit of Venus in Hawaii ( 1874 ) , travelled in Siberia and the Gobi desert , and reported the Russo-Turkish war for The Times in 1877 . |
| 22 | On two occasions during this period he told at least four people that money had been found by her body . |
| 23 | Also during this process he should begin to note down ( on cards ) details of specific titles that are heavily used and may require duplication . |
| 24 | I tell you what , erm , I 've got to revise my bit in of Gooch 's , I 'm such an admirer of him and everything , I have n't , I would have thought he was a brilliant strategist , I think during this summer he 's really begun to read the batsmen erm , strengths and failures and and set the field . |
| 25 | During this time he became acquainted with John Ray , the great English naturalist , and Robert Boyle , the philosopher , both of whom gave help and encouragement to the young man . |
| 26 | During this time he was inspired by a book called London Labour and London Poor by Henry Mayhew . |
| 27 | During this time he becomes all the world to her , and he is grateful but unaware of her affection . |
| 28 | During this time he was ordained deacon and priest . |
| 29 | And during this time he must have trodden pretty much every footpath there . |
| 30 | During this time he does not feed , but relies on his body fat , accumulated during the period of good summer feeding — this prolonged fast may later prove very costly . |