Example sentences of "this [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This got me into the very comfortable American hospital , where I was well pampered . |
| 2 | This led her to the alarming conclusion that it was not they who were bigger , but she who was smaller — and a lot smaller . |
| 3 | This led him into a series of acrimonious exchanges , both private and public , with several notable scientists of the day , but mainly with Carpenter and Thomson , whom he also accused of plagiarizing his results , particularly those dealing with the biology of the foraminiferans . |
| 4 | This led him to an interest in hull forms and contact with the well-known naval architect William Froude [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | This provided her with the ideal opportunity to research and write a book about the local food , which resulted in the publication of The Taste of Cyprus ( Interworld Publications , £5.95 ) , an enjoyable look at seasonal Cypriot cooking . |
| 6 | This provided him with an army of allies — and potential spies — surrounding a wide area of the Livingstone Manor estate . |
| 7 | This provided us with an opportunity to investigate the whales to see if we could discover anything about them that might explain why they had beached themselves . |
| 8 | This helped them as a creative unit — in 1967 they came up with arguably their greatest single Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever and with the album Sergeant Pepper 's Lonely Hearts ' Club Band which , though it has n't aged particularly well , was certainly a quantum leap forward for popular music at the time . |
| 9 | This committed him to a punishing schedule for the next eight months , from the time the play went into rehearsal until it closed on 26 April 1969 after 161 consecutive performances . |
| 10 | They abandoned the ride and walked instead in the shade of the trees beside the track , but although this protected them from the sun 's rays the leaden heat was everywhere and there was no escaping it . |
| 11 | The Midland kept its own account at the Bank and used the Bank 's notes instead of its own ; this protected it against the effects of Sir Robert Peel 's clampdown on note issuing in 1844 . |
| 12 | This turned him into a hero of the silent majority . |
| 13 | He had held a greater ambition for some years , however , and this dominated him until the summer of 1952 — he wished to be President of the United States . |
| 14 | ‘ Our area has been pedestrianised , and while we are convinced that this benefited us in the summer , it worked against us in the winter . |
| 15 | Some criticised his method of combating Bodyline by stepping away to cut the ball to the off , but Bradman claimed that this exposed him to a greater risk of injury than the orthodox type of batting . |
| 16 | This hit them like a communal heart-attack . |
| 17 | It gave him four and a half years of power without full responsibility — although he no doubt did not consider that this placed him in the harlot class . |
| 18 | This decided us on a bold move to facilitate loading . |
| 19 | This brought them into the Merse by the fairly empty country of Nenthorn and Stichill . |
| 20 | This took me in a gentle curve round the flanks of Great Coum towards the Barbondale road , Combe House , the track past Tofts , and back to my home for tea and crumpets . |
| 21 | This put him in a quandary . |
| 22 | The farm owners were n't working class , so the ways this put them at a disadvantage is irrelevant . |
| 23 | They were made of metal and this presented him with a major problem . |
| 24 | This presented us with a problem . |
| 25 | This reminded her of a stately home . |
| 26 | This reminded her of the Colonel and his visit to the Somerset County Cricket ground , courtesy of Matthew Prescott and his mother . |
| 27 | This reminded me of the story of how Dame Janet allegedly tried to relocate the ducks which meet and mate annually on the landscaped patch in front of the Commons and atop its underground carpark . |
| 28 | This endeared me to the young Noones . |
| 29 | I had taken no interest in Egyptian politics , but this struck me as a novel view . |
| 30 | This left me in a situation where I had to decide if I could afford to finance the aircraft on my own . |