Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't know Albie involved you in this . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Watching the final scenes of Jean Harlow 's last film , the ones shot after she had died , defeated him in this way . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 8 | The old man told me in this connection : |
| 9 | Many of our people sickened and died , and we buried them in this strange land . |
| 10 | You see in consecrated ground so they buried her in this bit of wheat land at the Muckle Water there . |
| 11 | Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ? |
| 12 | I believe Surere encouraged him in this . |
| 13 | Martinho encouraged him in this opinion-he liked to make out that the organisation had been moderate until hijacked by extremists who believed in violence . |
| 14 | The plaintiff encouraged him in this behaviour . |
| 15 | Picasso had never exhibited at the large Salons or taken part in any group manifestations , and after the Indépendants of 1909 , Braque joined him in this particular kind of artistic isolation . |
| 16 | Of his Quaker relatives who followed him in this course , S. P. Tregelles [ q.v. ] and the banker Samuel Lloyd were the most prominent . |
| 17 | Also , by implication , Bukharin was challenging the views of Rosa Luxemburg , and all who since followed her in this matter , in her assumption that arms production is a field for the creation of surplus-value . |
| 18 | Jacopone da Todi , the follower of Francis , expressed it in this way : |
| 19 | Paul expressed it in this way : ‘ I live ; yet not I , but Christ lives in me . ’ |
| 20 | In 1938 Leo Amery expressed it in this way : ‘ when we are faced with the competition of a people who lay stress on the healthy development of their young manhood and womanhood , how can we afford a situation in which something like twenty-five per cent of the children of our country are growing up under-nourished and likely to belong to the C3 rather than the A1 type when they grow up . |
| 21 | Well , they o , they have n't bothered up there , so I think people , I mean I was doing it , I was , she sort of shoved them in this thingie and I looked up and it said , green ! |
| 22 | Her imagination , which often inconvenienced her in this way , began to suggest that , naturally , this remote valley would be the haunt of rabid , starving packs of feral dogs . |
| 23 | Severed as I was from Father and from Helmut , living in a foreign country , was it the fear of further severance that kept me in this unequal concurrence ? |
| 24 | They took me in this bungalow |
| 25 | But I have loved you ever since I first saw you in this house . |
| 26 | What on earth would she think if she saw her in this ridiculous get-up ? |
| 27 | Peter Yeo , who knew him in this over-candid , over-emphatic mood , decided to prod gently . |
| 28 | I realized what a marvellous actor he was when I saw him in this and only wished that he had n't relied so much on the funny voices and hidden behind the easier way out of doing the characters that he could do so easily — and it was easy for him . |
| 29 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 30 | A record shows , 'The inhabitants of the place said we never saw it in this fashion before ; we were left to wander and none cared for our souls ; but now a brighter day has dawned for us . ’ |