Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 2 | That is the only reason I agreed to write this message to you . |
| 3 | My coach and I planned to use this meeting as training and it just turned out to be bad training . ’ |
| 4 | I planned to amplify this change of mood by having different colour schemes . |
| 5 | Cos I got told this afternoon he have n't made a very good job of this cleaning up ! |
| 6 | Although I tried to do this visualization several times a day , I found it best and most rewarding first thing in the morning when I and my mind were fresh . |
| 7 | I tried to hold this woman up in a car park underneath the council offices . |
| 8 | I tried to implement this philosophy , as I suspected Chelsea was no different from the East End . |
| 9 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 10 | I tried to get this message on to the network by sending to but the seems to screw things up . |
| 11 | Erm , I tried to ring this lady . |
| 12 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 13 | I 'd seen this attitude once before in the village when a cow , grazing on the cliffside , fell down into the valley below . |
| 14 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 15 | In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ . |
| 16 | You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year . |
| 17 | So if you feel at some stage that er this is n't for me then one of the things that we regularly hear is I wish I 'd done this course ten years ago . |
| 18 | this morning what I 'd done this morning was just dancing about cos I , I had to go to the toilet I could n't wait |
| 19 | It was his birthday and I 'd planned this surprise party for him . |
| 20 | ‘ I came straight to Cochabamba with my family because we were lucky enough to have the money from my book and I 'd bought this land before leaving Bolivia in 1980 . |
| 21 | I then was sent a letter telling me that I 'd passed this exam , I then had what 's known as a medical to check that I was okay , there was no , I had no faults or injuries or health problems . |
| 22 | I 'd began to think I 'd got this agoraphobia whatever it is , I never wanted to go out . |
| 23 | So , I 'd got this house and two or three of us from the refuge went up to the old house and packed everything ready to move . |
| 24 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |
| 25 | If I 'd known this cake were gon na go so quick I would n't of fro froze that other one . |
| 26 | When I came to rehearse this scene with him , we went through it and he said to me , " That wo n't do , you know , " and I was shattered . |
| 27 | I should perhaps say a little about how I came to think this way : that the key to educational change is in the stance that teachers individually and collectively adopt towards change . |
| 28 | When watching parliamentary television , I have not often felt that there was an unfair political balance and none of the Members I interviewed raised this matter , except that one Liberal Democrat believed that the smaller parties were squeezed out of live coverage on Tuesdays and Thursdays . |
| 29 | ‘ I forgot to give this letter to you when we were talking . |
| 30 | The experiment I was doing all those months ago when I began writing this book , which I described in Chapter 2 , involved using the sugar fucose as a precursor for glycoprotein . |