Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the years passed , my cousin came to encounter this phenomenon again and again . |
| 2 | I realised it was only my ego wanting to control this thing , and that it was n't a natural evolutionary step as I 'd told myself . |
| 3 | I would spend all my time trying to capture this place on paper . |
| 4 | The American girl has her head clamped down on her chest trying to stop this sound technician from Dublin from getting his hands down her front . |
| 5 | Although they recognize that social relations , discourses , and language are not the same thing , their practice tends to belie this . |
| 6 | She opened her mouth to try to put this fact into words , but he intervened again . |
| 7 | The Tominahs and even her uncle seemed to think this behaviour was quite to be expected on an occasion such as this , with so much soul energy flying around . |
| 8 | Its tail began to move this way and that with a faint , swishing noise . |
| 9 | Perhaps this is a question all potential Members should ask is whether their party intend to replace this farce with a more constructive alternative . |
| 10 | From 1957 Macmillan and his cabinet tried to rectify this by drastic cuts to conventional forces as Britain 's nuclear armoury expanded . |
| 11 | In the late nineteenth century his family helped to found this small town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and by the time that Stanley Pons was growing up it had a thriving textile industry , his father owning several mills and employing over 1000 workers . |
| 12 | In the interests of détente , because of our belief in the value of friendly relations where possible , our government agreed to return this criminal to the British in exchange for a Soviet citizen falsely accused in London . |
| 13 | Will not your Emperor send to claim this land when it is gone ? |
| 14 | What can you and your partner do to put this into practice towards each other at the moment ? |