Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But poetry and music were not the only things that he wrote at this time .
2 So too do most of his other notes and jottings and — more important — most of the substantial pieces of work that he wrote during this period .
3 Erm in the letters that he wrote to this bloke .
4 Belfast 's European champion produced a quite stunning performance which totally belied his relative immaturity and made a mockery of the fact that he went into this fight with no world rating of any description .
5 ( Unfortunately the date of his appointment to colour sergeant is not recorded , but there is ample evidence that he served in this rank on Corfu ) .
6 ‘ Which is why it 's so super that he agreed to this interview , ’ she quickly covered her slip .
7 One of the most attractive designs that he did at this time was for Kay Dick 's novel , An Affair of Love ( 1953 ) .
8 But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano .
9 Had the house actually left the ground , he knew that he could n't have felt more strange than he did at this moment , or more afraid : there was someone here .
10 He 's head of er he 's senior editor of classics at E M I , so he latched onto this sort of , you know
11 Oh aye , and the funny thing , he was away down in England one day , and he went into this shop , and here , there was this bundle of magazines , and he had a look and here it was the Gallovadians .
12 My grandfather had a weak heart , and he died in this way .
13 After leaving school he became a mathematical lecturer at Oxford in 1855 and he continued with this job until 1881 .
14 The Ethics of Corporal Punishment appeared in 1907 and he returned to this theme in 1916 in The Flogging Craze , a Statement of the Case against Corporal Punishment .
15 We left there , we left about half five , six in the morning did n't we and we were getting lost in and we knew it was in the village in that town but we could n't find it and we kept getting lost so we all pulled her up and he went back and he said to this man can you tell me where the
16 It is interesting that Golgi himself , who got the Nobel Prize in part for this work , did n't believe that there were individual neurons within the brain , preferring to think of it as a continuous network of fibres , and he persisted with this mistake despite the evidence of his own staining technique .
17 Well , the angel Gabriel disguised himself as a poor beggar and walked through the forest until he came to this pear tree .
18 What if he came in this evening through a door that was n't there and sat in a chair-shape , reading a paper that had never been printed , saying aloud bits that were only hum and haw again to me ?
19 He said he 'd suffocate if he remained in this house for another hour .
20 If he acted in this way , it was not in order to conform to the customs of his time , for his attitude towards women was quite different from that of his milieu , and he deliberately and courageously broke with it . ’
21 Well yeah but he said without this card he ca n't get no money , cos he 's used what money he had to pay off the card .
22 He liked her , you could n't help but like her , but he wished in this moment it was in him to more than like her .
23 for not only was the Earl Patrick suspicious of anyone coming from the regency , but he happened at this juncture to be consoling himself with a local lady , in the absence of marital comforts .
24 MARK ‘ HUBBA HUBBA ’ CASWELL denies ever playing one in his life ( that 's my story and I 'm sticking to it — Corky ) , but he volunteered for this job quickly enough …
25 but I know it cos the other week when I had to work till half past eight for Peter , he was having a dinner party and erm we went down there , I had to go shopping with him , he made me die cos he asked me if I 'd work a bit later and I said yeah I need the money , so I 'll work later so er he made me die because he said in this flare up , this argument when when I worked that day , I mean , I worked all day , I had nothing to eat and I could n't eat af , you know , cos of this trouble I could n't eat after
26 There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic .
27 Even before he learned of this result , de Gaulle had decided , on the basis of first- hand observations during his final trip in December 1960 , that his original association strategy was dead .
28 And when he got into this lane he was about a hundred yards off the village .
29 Mary Benson recalls Orton Chirwa in Britain 40 years ago when he came to this country to protest against imposition of the Central African Federation : ‘ How vividly one recalls Orton , the slight , bespectacled , amused young lawyer who proved to be an articulate , passionate speaker whose wit enlivened public meetings from London to Edinburgh , while Banda , then a GP in Willesden , embarrassed organisers with his tub-thumping rhetoric — Banda the medical doctor , who was to subject Orton and Vera Chirwa to such extremes of suffering , remaining impervious to every appeal and protest on their behalf .
30 They were moving with me all the time and er , the eldest child was four year 's old when he came to this country and er , two and a half year 's old the girl , younger to him .
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