Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , the would-be reformers ' interpretation of the 1980s led them to this conclusion . |
| 2 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 3 | You got me into this mess . |
| 4 | It was drink that got me into this mess . |
| 5 | Eadmer inserted them at this point into his Historia Novorum . |
| 6 | It was Mr Gorbachev , after all , who got them into this mess . |
| 7 | Prof Chris Turner , professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences , Stirling University , made his at this week 's Children 's Panels conference at Peebles : |
| 8 | Into the uneasy silence , while brother looked most earnestly at brother , and wondered , and sought or evaded the eyes of his neighbours , Brother Cadfael said : ‘ Brother Abbot , I have thoughts to share that never visited me until this morning , but are become very relevant now . |
| 9 | No doubt my verbal articulacy , being greater than that of my unfortunate companion , helped me in this form of self-defence , as it did in my ability to lie . |
| 10 | I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way . |
| 11 | The we means ‘ someone in my group ’ , and when a Zuwayi used we in this sense , the reference group was small and was likely to include his own ancestors and relatives , men he could name in a line of descent which included both speaker and audience , which explained the existence and identity of each person , and provided them with a character and loyalties . |
| 12 | Watching the final scenes of Jean Harlow 's last film , the ones shot after she had died , defeated him in this way . |
| 13 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 14 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |
| 15 | He fell about laughing when his agent phoned him with this news . |
| 16 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 17 | His familiarity with every stick and stone of it probably helped him to this preference . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 20 | The prophets had sharp words for those who reduced them to this level . |
| 21 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 22 | The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact . |
| 23 | Mm , mm and no , I dropped them off this morning , that 's it , he 's picking them up |
| 24 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 25 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 26 | It was there she told me about this sister and showed me her hand . |
| 27 | ‘ Martha told me about this place , but I never thought I 'd see it , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ I was told , ’ said Lili , ‘ by the person who told me about this place . ’ |
| 29 | He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc . |
| 30 | And I cos I was amazed they told me about this salt rubbish ! |