Example sentences of "this [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This made her neither popular nor happy . |
| 2 | Seeing her like this made her more human somehow . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This made him very successful , since utterly trusted , with certain sorts of client . |
| 5 | This made him so angry that he threw a knife at me , which cut my neck , and then he rushed towards me , swearing violently . |
| 6 | Johnny knew Fergie was in love with him , and he felt this made him virtually untouchable . |
| 7 | He was afraid she was going off her head , and this made him unreasonably irritable . |
| 8 | Naturally , this did n't affect her competence to teach at the University of Oxford , because until quite recently the place preferred to treat modern languages as if they were dead : this made them more respectable , more like the distant perfections of Latin and Greek . |
| 9 | In an era when the average gross weekly wage was about £10 this made them very expensive props indeed . |
| 10 | But this made it extremely difficult to follow any strategy of industrial reorganisation ; and in this respect there are interesting parallels between the late 1960s and the late 1940s . |
| 11 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |
| 12 | My act , as always , is an intimate gossip with the audience — and this made it very tricky . |
| 13 | In contrast to the other states though , Germany was still a series of small states and principalities , and this made it very difficult to finance and develop the railway network . |
| 14 | She was able to help him share his anxiety about the risk of moving , and this made it more manageable . |
| 15 | If young attachés were unpaid this made it more difficult to treat them as cogs in a bureaucratic machine . |
| 16 | ( This amused her very much . ) |
| 17 | It was a long hard fight , but by now it was dark and this helped us very much . |
| 18 | This pleased me very much because I was longing to hear her play the instrument . |
| 19 | His much loved wife , Anne of Bohemia , died in 1394 , and this affected him so much that he felt everyone and everything was against him . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | This brought them fully forty yards closer . |
| 22 | This rendered them less economic in operation . |
| 23 | This fascinated me so much I failed to notice the Mamba slip out of the gate beneath me . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This put him off personal involvement in scientific research but probably provided material for his novels The Search and The Affair . |
| 26 | She was obviously a madame of some kind , not that this bothered me too much . |
| 27 | ( Now this struck me as odd . |
| 28 | So this struck me as odd . |
| 29 | This left them highly vulnerable to harvest failures such as those of 1891 and 1901 . |
| 30 | This left him dreadfully depressed and he was treated for melancholia and insomnia . |