Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | You expected me to hate this one , did n't you ? |
| 2 | the employer tendency to favour the industry-type of bargaining was reinforced by the broad socialist , class consciousness of major European unions which probably led them to favour this approach , since it would engage ‘ employers through mass class action ’ , and also extend protection to a larger part of the workforce . |
| 3 | ( Note : in order to answer this type of question it is necessary to look at what was counted as explanation by this school , i.e. what led them to believe this ? ) |
| 4 | They immediately commissioned me to photograph this expensive restaurant nearby . |
| 5 | I says I want to learn sommat so I went to and I do n't know what it was , whether it was my attitude , but they , they asked me to do this and I was so good at it , so they started finding jobs for me and it was at and I was anxious for knowledge , and I tell you took anything on , which is important and the big firms did n't . |
| 6 | When Douglas asked me to take this over , he said initially that my job would be to book the excursion bus , and liaise with the caterers . |
| 7 | When the Editor asked me to write this article I happily agreed . |
| 8 | ‘ Details , of course , will take time and come later , but that 's my general philosophy ; that 's what you would get if you asked me to complete this job for you . ’ |
| 9 | He asked me to reconsider this . |
| 10 | ‘ I forgot , Maureen asked me to bring this . ’ |
| 11 | Referring back to that list of priorities led me to address this thorny issue once more , only this time less from the point of view of a recording being merely compared with other recordings ( or some mean recorded standard ) , than the level of execution which the scores themselves would appear to invite . |
| 12 | Pride made me disguise this . |
| 13 | Every time they came forward , you expected something to happen ( perhaps It was sitting in the north bank with the Cockney scum that made me think this ! ! ) . |
| 14 | The worst day we were out here working on the garden and it made me think this must be what it was like in the trenches |
| 15 | That was the obsession that made me write this . ’ |
| 16 | But then , when I come to think and ask myself what made me like this , I have n't far to seek the answer . |
| 17 | Sister Susan McGuiness F.C.J. Sister Madeleine F.C.J. and Bishop Kevin O'Brien all helped me to answer this question . |
| 18 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 19 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 20 | McLeish found himself receiving this with reluctance and wondered why , since it made sense . |
| 21 | After five years as Chancellor of the Exchequer , and after the lost election of 1979 , he says he found himself wearing this Shirt of Nessus . |
| 22 | But in Tom 's room , when Peter had poured the wine into two mugs and an inch into a glass for her and she had tasted it , she found she liked this wine that had a taste of how elderflowers smell , reversed her decision and asked him to do as he had offered and fill her glass . |
| 23 | He let you run this place like a fucking doll 's house 'cause he loved you . |
| 24 | She always found herself adopting this haughty attitude when entering big houses or hotels of above average splendour . |
| 25 | Nick found he disliked this idea very much . |
| 26 | Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there , ‘ Sorry , none of you ’ . |
| 27 | When the Countess saw that Emily was going to be good for nothing , she let us have this house , as I say — she was Scottish , and had property here that was mostly sold after she died . |
| 28 | I noticed nothing to suggest this insight in Frontenac 's version of the story . |
| 29 | Early on within this game I th when Blackburn scored I thought this game would be taken away from 'em . |
| 30 | I told her to buy this island . |