Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 2 | In the end I agreed to do this but I remember leaving the meeting literally , I am afraid , in tears and saying that although I would obey the majority I would resign from the Government afterwards as quietly as I could because I should have failed to uphold an almost lifelong conviction … |
| 3 | That is the only reason I agreed to write this message to you . |
| 4 | As I failed to do this I spent the entire journey staring intently at the zip of my coat and at least I learned a lot about clothes fastenings that morning . |
| 5 | My coach and I planned to use this meeting as training and it just turned out to be bad training . ’ |
| 6 | I planned to amplify this change of mood by having different colour schemes . |
| 7 | And look , I got to say this : I did n't ask for you all to get involved . |
| 8 | I got to see this , got to see this . |
| 9 | We brought back four tail wheel struts complete with the tyres and axles and everything else on them and I got to weld this high-strength steel onto that carbon steel that was on the , the wheel and we wound up with a nice trailer with four B-Seventeen tail wheels on it . |
| 10 | Cos I got told this afternoon he have n't made a very good job of this cleaning up ! |
| 11 | Although I tried to do this visualization several times a day , I found it best and most rewarding first thing in the morning when I and my mind were fresh . |
| 12 | In the rest of this chapter I shall describe how I tried to do this , drawing on my own experience and developing mathematical interests and understanding . |
| 13 | I tried to hold this woman up in a car park underneath the council offices . |
| 14 | Right , that 's it , that 'll do , I wo n't go any further and I can get the other things in well we had er , we had an aluminium friend , a double glazed enormous window over our landing and it was , the aluminium was so cold and it was conden there was so much condensation that we had a new window P V C put in , but I tried to sell this other window , cos it was beautiful you see , nothing wrong with it except you know , but nobody wanted it and I kept it and I had it for about two years standing outside and then I thought I can use that and I cut , it was a three section , three lots of glass all in one , cut down , divide it into two and one , and got myself a plant house under the erm |
| 15 | I tried to implement this philosophy , as I suspected Chelsea was no different from the East End . |
| 16 | Roux 's results were published for the first time in 1888 : three years later I tried to repeat this fundamental experiment on another subject and by a somewhat different method , It was known from the cytological researches of the brothers Hertwig and Boveri that the eggs of the common sea urchin are able to stand well all sorts of rough treatment , and that , in particular , when broken into pieces by shaking their fragments , will survive and continue to cleave . |
| 17 | I tried to meet this personal and pastoral need in a four-page leaflet with printed prayers for the occasions mentioned above . |
| 18 | At a Press Conference at the Central Office I tried to express this . |
| 19 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 20 | ‘ I tried to bring this to the notice of the police and the Army but they did not want to know . |
| 21 | I tried to get this message on to the network by sending to but the seems to screw things up . |
| 22 | Erm , I tried to ring this lady . |
| 23 | I tried to prevent this , but I was thrown onto the ground and fell onto a sickle . |
| 24 | I tried to work this out in terms of ‘ Der Freischütz ’ but failed . |
| 25 | Denmark , which I visited to explore this very subject , uses this process . |
| 26 | I pretended to ignore this and he said something in German after me which I took to mean : ‘ You must be a very dull fellow if you do n't think that sort of thing funny . ’ |
| 27 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 28 | because I 'd said this , and I do n't know whether she was sussing me out |
| 29 | Damn , I thought I 'd locked this . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd seen this attitude once before in the village when a cow , grazing on the cliffside , fell down into the valley below . |