Example sentences of "this [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This became our daily opiate — where to get the best one , whether to have it en haut or la bas and , ultimately , whether the telecabin , which took us waveringly up , would manage the much heavier journey down . |
| 2 | This made me uneasy , and I was glad when someone gave me a glass of white wine . |
| 3 | This made me aware of how badly I 'd done with the domestic arrangements . |
| 4 | To a degree this made him vulnerable : Vichy propagandists had an opportunity to fill in the blanks , by vilifying him as a deserter in the pay of the British or of Jewish interests . |
| 5 | This made him easier to take home for the night ; people who would normally never have approached such a beauty felt that they could . |
| 6 | He knew he was slow-witted ; so many things that were simple for other people quite defeated him , and he was aware that this made him different — he had even heard himself referred to as ‘ not all there ’ . |
| 7 | This made him popular at home , but enraged Alexander III . |
| 8 | This made him aware of how much he 'd been missing before in the cold , masculine environment of the academy . |
| 9 | This made its first public steaming debut at Cheddleton after major restoration work last September , during the successful ‘ Derby Day ’ . |
| 10 | Not that this made them live longer — average life expectancy was only 38 . |
| 11 | This made her left foot very cold , so she twisted it round her right ankle . |
| 12 | Ace had pulled himself together , and conversely this made her own breakdown more apparent . |
| 13 | The retreat into other-worldliness on the part of some women may be interpreted as a form of escapism by those who found their ideas unacceptable to society as a whole , not that this made their religious faith any less genuine or deep . |
| 14 | No one is more vicious than a person who has something to hide , so this made their strange behaviour more understandable to Jane . |
| 15 | This made us both laugh . |
| 16 | Fitzosbert 's sunken cheeks were liberally rouged and this made his bulbous grey eyes seem even more fish-like . |
| 17 | She was superb throughout , counselling me to stay out , and this made my eventual decision all the more poignant . |
| 18 | Possibly this made you uneasy , or possibly , with the storm blowing up , you did not want to take your boat across to the mainland again , so you decided to let things alone , and not risk taking any stolen goods on board . |
| 19 | Swan seemed unwilling to fly very close to these creatures from another world , and this made it impossible for Little Billy to see them clearly . |
| 20 | This made it impossible for those who did advance reform proposals , such as Panin under Catherine II and Pahlen under Alexander I , to organize united pressure upon the Tsar to compromise his authority . |
| 21 | This made it worse . |
| 22 | This made it easy for the doctor to see at a glance how Vincent 's temperature had changed up or down , since the operation without studying a long list of figures . |
| 23 | This made it easy for him to appear younger , simpler and less thinking than he was . |
| 24 | I had already made my debut in Scrutiny , however , and he may have felt that this made it appropriate that I should have something equivalent in The Criterion . |
| 25 | This made it possible to group together different types of service ( InterCity 's identity was first established on this basis ) and look at their costs and revenues in a sensible manner . |
| 26 | This made it possible for Germany to develop economically and socially , and enabled Barbarossa to consolidate and extend his imperial and personal power throughout the German kingdom . |
| 27 | This made it possible to rethink multiculturalism 's psychological interpretation of racism as individual prejudice in more structural and politicized terms . |
| 28 | Presumably this made it possible to combine touch and smell information , though we can only guess about this . |
| 29 | Prices were not going up too fast and again this made it economical for us to visit . |
| 30 | This made it clear that periti might not all be theologians ( 'canonists and other experts ’ were also mentioned ) , and that there was a distinction between conciliar periti and private advisers to bishops . |