Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example .
2 ‘ What do you mean to do , ’ demanded Harry , looking fiercely up at him from under drawn brows , ‘ now that you 've tricked me into this betrayal ?
3 The Viennese modernists , Klimt , von Hofmannsthal , Hoffmann , Moser , had only joined them in this acceptance .
4 Contemporaries certainly regarded them in this light .
5 Contemporaries certainly regarded them in this light .
6 Is it my Unconscious ( of the existence of which I have informed doubts ) that has dropped me in this plight ?
7 It 's important that we identify what desires and needs we could have in common with one another when using this approach ; if we do n't know the people concerned very well , or have not considered them in this way , we need to use the participative approach described above .
8 ‘ It 's a good thing we 've booked you into this place , ’ Michael continued .
9 Harriet walked home wondering why she had not organised something of this sort before and marvelling at Mrs Rafferty 's complete acceptance of her own role in the community , one in which she obviously took it for granted that she herself had no need or right to ‘ a bit of a break ’ .
10 A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet .
11 Because the characters and the dialogue of this offstage life were created by the original cast , we have not included it in this script .
12 ‘ Well , I 've modified it in this way .
13 No Hellenistic poet or philosopher quoted it , although modern scholars have sometimes deluded themselves on this subject .
14 The proof of this statement is so simple and elegant that it is the one piece of mathematics I have permitted myself in this book .
15 I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work .
16 It has often been pointed out that even if he had written nothing before this stage he would still be regarded as an important poet .
17 And whoever took this four marb eight marbles had chucked them in this hole and if a even number come out it was mine , if a odd number came out then he 'd take the eight .
18 But , we 've seen them on this side as well !
19 Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them .
20 The Gulf has seen nothing on this scale before . ’
21 Tony 's mother had made them for this occasion , and though recipes vary slightly the end result is a large currant biscuit .
22 Wordsworth had some idea of what was going on , as he had prepared himself for this second visit by reading pamphlets , and probably had a letter of introduction to Brissot ; but at first he was only sentimentally affected by the ideals of the Revolution .
23 ‘ I 've never seen you along this way before , ’ she said .
24 Elizabeth 's friend Maud must have said something of this sort , for I find I once wrote to her : ‘ Maud was right , I think .
25 He 'd said something to this lady and under normal circumstances he would not a she would n't have said anything
26 His defence lawyer says the case is unique in French law in that the court accepted Kim might have stabbed herself in this way .
27 If you had n't met anybody by this time you certainly would now .
28 Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation .
29 Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control .
30 I have not seen him since this morning . ’
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