Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the employer tendency to favour the industry-type of bargaining was reinforced by the broad socialist , class consciousness of major European unions which probably led them to favour this approach , since it would engage ‘ employers through mass class action ’ , and also extend protection to a larger part of the workforce . |
| 2 | When the Editor asked me to write this article I happily agreed . |
| 3 | ‘ Details , of course , will take time and come later , but that 's my general philosophy ; that 's what you would get if you asked me to complete this job for you . ’ |
| 4 | Sister Susan McGuiness F.C.J. Sister Madeleine F.C.J. and Bishop Kevin O'Brien all helped me to answer this question . |
| 5 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 6 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 7 | After five years as Chancellor of the Exchequer , and after the lost election of 1979 , he says he found himself wearing this Shirt of Nessus . |
| 8 | But in Tom 's room , when Peter had poured the wine into two mugs and an inch into a glass for her and she had tasted it , she found she liked this wine that had a taste of how elderflowers smell , reversed her decision and asked him to do as he had offered and fill her glass . |
| 9 | He let you run this place like a fucking doll 's house 'cause he loved you . |
| 10 | Nick found he disliked this idea very much . |
| 11 | Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there , ‘ Sorry , none of you ’ . |
| 12 | When the Countess saw that Emily was going to be good for nothing , she let us have this house , as I say — she was Scottish , and had property here that was mostly sold after she died . |
| 13 | I noticed nothing to suggest this insight in Frontenac 's version of the story . |
| 14 | Early on within this game I th when Blackburn scored I thought this game would be taken away from 'em . |
| 15 | I told her to buy this island . |
| 16 | I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do In the dying moments she made a noise I 'd never heard her make before , a rhythmical whimpering of abandonment or entreaty , a lost sound . |
| 17 | All member countries except the UK also committed themselves to translate this commitment into law . |
| 18 | What made you dig this information out ? ’ |
| 19 | I asked you to move this lot , and you did n't ! |
| 20 | It was the emergence of the Chinese Lesbian Group which allowed me to start this process of healing and accepting myself . |
| 21 | If one may suspend conscience , and forget the conditions and costs of labour which allowed them to create this wealth , then these streets — as they do in London and Edinburgh , and still to be seen in Dublin — define the comfort of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century middle classes . |
| 22 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 23 | In one artist 's statement , he remarked : Whilst the Lefevre exhibition established him as urban romantic with a particular feeling for Thames-side subjects , a number of commissions followed which allowed him to develop this vein . |
| 24 | The food and drinks offered by the hosts were , I thought , just about right , and very reasonable in price , which encouraged us to use this service , despite the service station stops . |
| 25 | He ordered me to cut this lot immediately ’ — he laid heavy stress on the word , his mouth twisted in a sardonic grin — ‘ and I told him it would have to wait till this afternoon . ’ |
| 26 | I had on the programme Brahms 's Fourth Symphony and at the rehearsal Lamond said to me , ‘ You know , I knew Brahms ; I heard him conduct this piece . ’ |
| 27 | When he was shadow Secretary of State and I challenged him to have this debate in the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs , he said , " We soon will . " |
| 28 | And so he got space to build a house and they began it began this part in thirteen sixty although it 's clear that there was an earlier house here , perhaps built at the time when they first got the back in the eleven seventies . |
| 29 | When Robert Slater returned he accepted this idea with enthusiasm , and it was he who planned the new hostel and took a very active hand in raising the modest sum necessary for the building . |
| 30 | On the contrary , Ronni sensed he relished this clash between them . |