Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The umbilical cord and the afterbirth were still inside me , so she began to yank this baby and I said " Excuse me , I 've still got a bit inside me . " |
| 3 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
| 4 | You can drive via 90-mile beach but it 's a rough road , so we decided to do this excursion as a day trip on a bus , and this proved good value . |
| 5 | Once we had achieved this magnificent piece of organizational decision making we looked to see if , in true Teesside Polytechnic student style , we could gain anything form it financially ! |
| 6 | They also wanted some data at higher current densities , , but were nervous that increasing the amount of current could lead to another disaster — the vaporised palladium block still haunted Fleischmann — so they decided to achieve this by keeping the total currents approximately unchanged but using rods that were only 1.25 cm long instead of 10 cm , the effect being to increase the current density eightfold . |
| 7 | Once they 'd realized this , the villagers came to her often with their problems . |
| 8 | In Chalatenango , a training school was opened for women interested in joining the military command , After a six-month course , the women trainees were asked to conduct an army ambush as proof of their military capabilities and once they had passed this test , were then sent to different battalions . |
| 9 | But Biggs also ran out of steam as the contest progressed towards the later rounds although he managed to conceal this inadequacy from the British champion . |
| 10 | It was extraordinary to think that once he had loved this woman to distraction , and now all he wanted was never to see her again . |
| 11 | Once it had achieved this , if it was to go any further it would have to arouse their interest . |
| 12 | ‘ If I 'd leaked this myself ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | I 'm sure that if I 'd had this excellent book when learning to windsurf my progress would have been much faster . |
| 16 | ‘ If I 'd known this a few days ago , it woulda saved a lotta trouble . |
| 17 | If I 'd known this cake were gon na go so quick I would n't of fro froze that other one . |
| 18 | But if I had said this to you three months ago would you have thought it worth the extra outlay ? |
| 19 | And if I had known this my justification for believing that they are playing at home would be defeated , because I also believe that they normally accept such invitations . |
| 20 | The dream ended with the thought that if I had known this was the main road I need not have resorted to the acrobatics that had brought me there . |
| 21 | She proposes consequently the following paraphrase of I was sorry to fail : If I had known this : this will happen to me ( I will fail ) I would have thought this : this will be bad , I will feel sorry when I thought this : I know this now : it happened to me I felt it ( sorry ) |
| 22 | Jamie could have been saved if someone had done this . |
| 23 | They could not even think of washing my hair until I had had this operation to put the two rods in my back . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 25 | Cos I got told this afternoon he have n't made a very good job of this cleaning up ! |
| 26 | Most days she would , sooner or later , walk down the lawn to examine her plants and I learned to wait until she had done this before myself settling in the summer-house . |
| 27 | Well , she was n't leaving until she 'd sorted this muddle out . |
| 28 | What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free . |
| 29 | yeah , I really was quite , quite upset about it , well I do n't blame you for it I would n't of minded if she 'd said this morning when I 'd asked her |
| 30 | ‘ Respect for the dead , ’ he said , speaking to Carrie quite angrily , as if she had questioned this action . |