Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [conj] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They told me that this year they have employed a private contractor who is supposed to cut grass at least twice a month and weed once a month but its not happening , ’ he added . |
| 2 | But the wisdom of age told me that this parabola of promise would not be maintained indefinitely , but would peak and then decline . |
| 3 | Her triumphant smile told me that this time Jessica 's husband had excelled himself . |
| 4 | They told me that this sort of thing happens , it 's part of training , and to stick in there and show the buggers they were wrong . ’ |
| 5 | Her friend told me that this baby wants for nothing , it is the best dressed baby In the neighbourhood . |
| 6 | A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age . |
| 7 | hours I told him that this glimpse |
| 8 | Barbara Sewart , for instance , has angina and of course her doctor told her that this diet was particularly suitable for her . |
| 9 | The matron also told us that this patient had to go into a nursing home ‘ towards the end ’ because ‘ she needed morphine injections which the doctor would n't give otherwise she would n't have had to move to somewhere strange . |
| 10 | Then he pulled her to him , and kissed her and this time stayed kissing her , and when she did not struggle , he pressed on , and went down to the ground with her and months of longing for her flooded him almost instantly , so that he had no time to swing with her long , cool firmness as he had dreamed of so often , but the instant release in contact with her swept away all his turbulence . |
| 11 | I reassured him that this warning was unnecessary : my ambition was to set the record for the slowest lap of the circuit . |
| 12 | she rang it and this bell started going |
| 13 | For her sister 's sake Fabia kept smiling , though her heart failed her that this lady — be she wife , housekeeper or both — knew no English . |
| 14 | When I asked him if this relationship was ‘ it ’ forever , he said yes . |
| 15 | I thought you and this moron with the shut eyes were dead . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ What you told me last night , Rachel , only convinced me that this marriage could work , ’ he said softly , and walked towards her with a look of intent in his blue eyes that sent panic rushing through her in hot waves . |
| 17 | He reminded us that this court had recently held that decisions of the Professional Conduct Committee of the Bar Council were susceptible to judicial review ( Reg. v. General Council of the Bar , Ex parte Percival [ 1991 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 18 | It struck me that this place must be fairly normal as lodging houses go , for on the whole the lodgers did not complain . |
| 19 | Years later during the war when I went to Central Flying School to get an instructors rating , he once more instructed me and this time got another gong — Air Force Cross — for conduct far and beyond the call of duty , trying a second time to teach me to fly ( or so my mentors claim ) . |