Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sorry I ran and got us into this mess . |
| 2 | Charles reproved her for rushing on ahead of his story , and told her about this Sergeant lurking within like a spider waiting for a juicy fly . |
| 3 | Corbett vaguely recalled the building as a pleasant two-storeyed affair : the fire must have caught the sun-dried timbers and turned it into this blackened mess . |
| 4 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 5 | An introductory epigram states that Clearchus copied them exactly in Delphi and brought them to this remote place of Bactriana . |
| 6 | About a week later he explained at more length that the committee had seen all the drawings and liked them with this one exception . |
| 7 | I was explaining this to your door porters when a most helpful youngster kindly took me in his charge and escorted me into this room . ’ |
| 8 | You had made me , but why had you not looked after me , and saved me from this pain and unhappiness ? |
| 9 | on in , in , in the laminates alright well when they took the windscreen out and replaced it with this one it 's only since then that repair |
| 10 | Dad patted me on the head and Mum gives me this little kiss on the cheek and then they went off and left me with this old woman . |
| 11 | She , no she , cos she 'd s what , he 'd done his business pel pissed off and left her in this house and she did n't even know . |