Example sentences of "[vb past] i [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions ! |
| 2 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 ’ . |
| 5 | You got me into this mess . |
| 6 | It was drink that got me into this mess . |
| 7 | You got me into this , lady . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I was expecting it to be bad , but nothing prepared me for this ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You drove me to this . |
| 14 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 15 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 16 | This girl just told me about this Polo factory outlet up near Canada … you can get a $200 knitted sweater for , like $20 — that 's outrageous ! ’ |
| 17 | It was there she told me about this sister and showed me her hand . |
| 18 | ‘ Martha told me about this place , but I never thought I 'd see it , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ I was told , ’ said Lili , ‘ by the person who told me about this place . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Nobody told me about this . |
| 21 | He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc . |
| 22 | And erm then of course she told me about this so my mother went to see him . |
| 23 | And I cos I was amazed they told me about this salt rubbish ! |
| 24 | The old man told me in this connection : |
| 25 | ‘ What really attracted me to this hat was its shape — it reminded me of the ones American tourists wear . ’ |
| 26 | To teach herself to handle thought , she made it a practise never to permit herself to touch a brush until she could answer these questions , in writing , in the fewest possible words : ‘ What attracted me to this subject ? ’ 'Why do I want to paint it ? ’ 'What is the thing I am trying to express ? ’ |
| 27 | What attracted me to this way of speaking is that it would seem to allow for a celebration of the diversity of human beings , this held together with an emphasis on the commonness of their humanity . |
| 28 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |
| 29 | ‘ When you bullied me into this … charade , ’ she spat the words out , ‘ it did n't give you the right to boss me about . |
| 30 | She paid me for this week and she said well I you 've got ninety pound here |