Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , the would-be reformers ' interpretation of the 1980s led them to this conclusion . |
| 2 | His familiarity with every stick and stone of it probably helped him to this preference . |
| 3 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 4 | The prophets had sharp words for those who reduced them to this level . |
| 5 | ‘ You drove me to this . |
| 6 | ‘ What really attracted me to this hat was its shape — it reminded me of the ones American tourists wear . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What attracted you to this particular job ? |
| 10 | If it is then asked what drove him to this desperate end , Zande will refer you to the particular tensions and stresses of his life . |
| 11 | The Mitchells were granted permission to burn charcoal from coppiced timber at Hangman 's Wood if they returned it to this state of management . |
| 12 | For now she was torn between two places and it was not the thought of her father that bound her to this place . |
| 13 | Although she knew they were both wrong she could n't apportion blame to either of them , not yet , at any rate ; the only thing she knew at the moment was that what she had heard tied her to this house and the business as if she had signed a contract giving away her life . |
| 14 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 15 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 16 | An introductory epigram states that Clearchus copied them exactly in Delphi and brought them to this remote place of Bactriana . |
| 17 | It was the young lady who now spoke : ‘ You wo n't remember , of course , I scarcely do , but years ago my grandfather brought me to this shop , and it was at Christmas time too . |
| 18 | Greeting him on his return from battle , she hands him over to his wife with palpable reluctance ; seeking to calm him before his confrontation with the people , she shackles him in an iron grip ; and , in the great plea with him not to sack Rome , she pinpoints the lines about him treading on his mother 's womb ‘ that brought thee to this world ’ . |
| 19 | I wanted to lash out at them : Vern did n't help me , I do n't need anyone to help me — he took me to this boat alone at night and we … |
| 20 | What brought you to this part when you , went back |
| 21 | When David first brought her to this house as his wife , Beth had hoped she could fit in , make this place a proper home for all of them . |
| 22 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |
| 23 | I took it to this kid at |
| 24 | So of course inevitably what happened is we got the house lot in just , took it to this place in Leeds , got finished with that load and back for four which is what the estimate had covered us for , and then we had to start all over again with what was in the garage . |
| 25 | No , the council 's took it over , they sold it to this bloke . |
| 26 | It lead them to this house on Magdalen Road in Oxford … where law graduate Georgia Griffiths was living with her sister and two other girls . |
| 27 | He introduced me to this world that I had never really come across before . |
| 28 | No I had a Group Manager who actually introduced me to this , I erm , I work out with him , but , he brought a , actually what turned me on to this was the fact that erm , where he is , he 's thirty six now , and erm , he 's got no mortgages , he 's got a , he paid eleven thousand pounds for a , a Kawasaki Z Z eleven hundred R super bike , worth that is |
| 29 | Cos erm they gave it to this woman and the woman gave it to me . |
| 30 | Yes , chair , actually gave it to this headed copy of it to consolidate erm with regard to contacting Leicester and Leeds Councils that have also sort of taken action against Nestlé , that 's still being done . |