Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions ! |
| 2 | Again , the would-be reformers ' interpretation of the 1980s led them to this conclusion . |
| 3 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 4 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ , but indeed it could be applied in many places . |
| 5 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said , ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ . |
| 6 | You got me into this mess . |
| 7 | It was drink that got me into this mess . |
| 8 | You got me into this , lady . |
| 9 | I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was . |
| 10 | Eadmer inserted them at this point into his Historia Novorum . |
| 11 | It was Mr Gorbachev , after all , who got them into this mess . |
| 12 | Prof Chris Turner , professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences , Stirling University , made his at this week 's Children 's Panels conference at Peebles : |
| 13 | What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities . |
| 14 | Into the uneasy silence , while brother looked most earnestly at brother , and wondered , and sought or evaded the eyes of his neighbours , Brother Cadfael said : ‘ Brother Abbot , I have thoughts to share that never visited me until this morning , but are become very relevant now . |
| 15 | So I er carried on with what they found me with this in the brew house and then er where did I go from there ? |
| 16 | ‘ We designed them for this . |
| 17 | No doubt my verbal articulacy , being greater than that of my unfortunate companion , helped me in this form of self-defence , as it did in my ability to lie . |
| 18 | Lee used nothing but this disc to carve the piece with an angle grinder , and he describes some of the effects the tool can achieve . |
| 19 | If we should wish to tell you how every one behaved himself in this battle , it is a thing which could not be done , for all did so well that no man can relate their feats . |
| 20 | I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't know Albie involved you in this . ’ |
| 22 | The we means ‘ someone in my group ’ , and when a Zuwayi used we in this sense , the reference group was small and was likely to include his own ancestors and relatives , men he could name in a line of descent which included both speaker and audience , which explained the existence and identity of each person , and provided them with a character and loyalties . |
| 23 | Watching the final scenes of Jean Harlow 's last film , the ones shot after she had died , defeated him in this way . |
| 24 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 25 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 26 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |
| 27 | Ann Langford having made her very successful parachute jump which has produced a handsome sum to be shared between Dr. Barnardo 's and the Society wishes to thank all those people who sponsored her in this even . |
| 28 | The fisherman 's wife , however , chastised him for this simple request and returned to the shore , there to harangue the Golden Fish with her demands for jewels , wealth and status . |
| 29 | He fell about laughing when his agent phoned him with this news . |
| 30 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |