Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 2 | At this camp we encountered some very friendly snowshoe hares that would take food from our hands . |
| 3 | She had no idea what he was up to , but instinct told her that he was trying to help her , and in this case it seemed wiser to follow her instincts . |
| 4 | Through this experience I became interested in the mechanisms of contemporary of Mori 's ‘ composite card ’ . |
| 5 | To test this hypothesis they interviewed three AD sufferers regularly , looking at the content of their speech for evidence of the persistence of ‘ self ’ . |
| 6 | In order to fill this lacuna he hired three Sinhalese ‘ of good family ’ . |
| 7 | In this study we classified rectal sensations elicited by isobaric distensions according to the segmental steady state values obtained . |
| 8 | In this study we investigated colonic motility in children with chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction . |
| 9 | We achieved that in a previous study , and before this study we showed these conditions with a vaginal ultrasonic probe during distension series of the rectum ( unpublished data ) . |
| 10 | It was not under sail , as I would have preferred , but the next best thing , and in this boat we explored most of the Outer Isles from North Rona to Barra Head , and the mainland coast between Lochinver and Oban . |
| 11 | Do you remember this talk we had that was last year . |
| 12 | Earlier in this chapter I gave some idea of the linguistic complexities of the Caribbean . |
| 13 | In this light it looked black . |
| 14 | What the prosecution must now prove is that D was committing a crime ( not being a crime of negligence or a crime of omission ) , that in committing this crime he caused V 's death , and that what he did when committing this crime was objectively dangerous . |
| 15 | The joker who 's up today and she got this boy whose had this section |
| 16 | ‘ This boy who lived next door to me taught me how to shoplift for him . |
| 17 | For this work she received two shillings and sixpence per week , quite a nice sum for the 1880's when farm workers were expected to bring up families on twelve shillings a week . |
| 18 | Had the man who wrote the foreword been at No. 10 in those days he would doubtless have seen to it that this cricketer who displayed such honourable patriotism and high personal standards was given some decoration or other . |
| 19 | When extracts from the HeLa cervical epithelial cell line were used in this assay we observed two complexes as in our previous experiments ( Figure 2b ) . |
| 20 | He later became joint chairman of the UK Byron Society and joint president of the International Byron Society ; in this capacity he chaired international Byron symposia in Cambridge and Athens , on one occasion conducting members in the footsteps of Byron 's Childe Harold to Epirus , into which he had parachuted in summer 1944 . |
| 21 | For this moment he mattered more than the boys . |
| 22 | Normally Miss Honey was terrified of the Headmistress and kept well away from her , but at this moment she felt ready to take on anybody . |
| 23 | We called ourselves January — so inspiring — and we made this record which sold 3000 copies . |
| 24 | Now the funny thing about it , when I took metallurgy I got , I , I got all this process I knew all about it you know , and er I had it the theory explained to me then , but er I was in the Bell one day about twenty years ago and an old boy came in and I started talking to him and he says , I bet you do n't know what I am ? |
| 25 | At this period he had strong literary and theatrical interests . |
| 26 | At this period he added two memoirs on Fife to the extensive list of books , memoirs and papers which had flowed from his pen . |
| 27 | During this period he became friendly with the poet John Clare [ q.v. ] , a frequent visitor at Milton from 1820 . |
| 28 | During this period he became interested in the adulteration of tobacco , an issue of considerable importance in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 29 | In this match he took seven wickets , the strangest of which was India 's first-innings stalwart Vengsarkar . |
| 30 | Presumably at this meeting he heard those charges against Richard which a little later were to reach the ears of some English chroniclers . |