Example sentences of "[vb pp] [indef pn] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long had it been since she had let anyone come this close , comfort her , try to ease her fears ? |
| 2 | A throne with 1,000 years of history has seen nothing like this before . |
| 3 | In all its long journey from the heart of Africa , it has seen nothing like this : the tall modern buildings sprouting suddenly along its banks , the incessant flow of traffic across bridges , the noise , the confusion . |
| 4 | I 've seen maggots brown , I 've seen them white , I 've seen them red and crawling , but I never seen nothing like this in my life before ! |
| 5 | The veteran foreign minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , has done nothing to allay this idea , bluntly denying the debt his country owes to the west by declaring , ‘ There is not a capitalist Germany and a communist Germany , there is only one German nation ’ . |
| 6 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 7 | But she has done nothing to deserve this . ’ |
| 8 | She 's done nothing to deserve this . ’ |
| 9 | For most of the past two years , after the first cracks in the ice were heard , Eastern Europe 's future used to be seen something like this . |
| 10 | Had n't she seen something like this once before ? she thought vaguely . |
| 11 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 12 | That made me feel I must have done something to deserve this . |
| 13 | Many also feel responsible because they assume that they must have done something to bring this man down . |
| 14 | I 've never seen one like this before , have you ? |
| 15 | He said , ‘ I 've never seen anything like this . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Have you ever seen anything like this before ? ’ he said , handing me a piece of a dish with feathers sticking to it . |
| 17 | Have you ever seen anything like this before . |
| 18 | He had never seen anything like this . |
| 19 | But apparently the twins had never seen anything like this before . |
| 20 | I 've backed more shows than you lot have had hot dinners and I 've never seen anything like this . |
| 21 | I have n't seen anything like this before , ’ she said breathlessly . |
| 22 | She had never seen anything like this . |
| 23 | He 's never seen anything like this before ! |
| 24 | for It was no good my making a list before I came down because I just had n't seen anything like this in the Marks in Norwich . |
| 25 | And they say , never have we seen anything like this before ! |
| 26 | We had to stop drinking or we 'd have got nothing done this year , like ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It was the lowest point of my life I 'd sold everything to do this trip . ’ |
| 28 | I have never had anyone query this before , but someone did in class last year . |
| 29 | Well you should 've done cos I thought you were going to cos I thought yeah we 've got , have n't got anything to do this afternoon |
| 30 | I see now we 've got lots to do this morning , you 're going to need to ignore what 's going on behind me , ah , it 's not happening , right , as I said to you at the very beginning of September I 'm the star , so you pay attention to me . |