Example sentences of "this [verb] i [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This made me even more of a social outcast since most of the other girls already regarded my disability , my lack of money , my accent and the council estate on which I lived as reasons to ignore me . |
| 2 | This pleased me very much because I was longing to hear her play the instrument . |
| 3 | This troubled me so much that when , in the morning , I found Curtis running the polisher over the hall floor , I asked him , ‘ Did you hear that in the night , Curtis ? |
| 4 | This fascinated me so much I failed to notice the Mamba slip out of the gate beneath me . |
| 5 | My interest in sport helped and apart from three days jankers ( for being late back from weekend pass — could not afford a taxi from Wendover station ) , this vexed me as many of my Entry had zero days but many , like my dear friend the late Roddy Morgan , did more than 300 days . |
| 6 | I imagine that many honest people would sympathise with Weatherhead and happily echo his final paragraph : ‘ All this gives me as much as I need , and seems to me the essential credo of Christianity . |
| 7 | She was obviously a madame of some kind , not that this bothered me too much . |