Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To tell you the truth it never occurred to me until this minute . |
| 2 | The attempt in the Treaty to reorganize the Balkans as a stable structure of national states appealed to them for this reason . |
| 3 | An ambitious reclamation scheme on the south coast also came to nothing around this time . |
| 4 | The Sister tried to tell her that all new mothers went through something of this sort for a short time after childbirth ; but Harriet knew , when she fetched Liza and her baby back to Four Winds at the end of the week , that what her daughter was suffering from was not the ordinary ‘ blues ’ which she herself had experienced after Liza was born . |
| 5 | Miss Groundwater — he found that he thought of her in this way again , as a fillip to rage — was seated at her mirror , already in her nightgown , brushing out her hair . |
| 6 | Pitted against him in this bout was The Big Boss Man — 337lbs from Cobb County , Georgia — who , as fans of Sky TV 's Wrestling Mania know , is a pumped-up hulk ‘ on the side of the law ’ . |
| 7 | She had to salvage her pride , forsake forever the tenderness that ached within her for this man … |
| 8 | Another man had been at the table for some time but Beales only looked at him at this point , curious to know who MacQuillan was with . |
| 9 | He also caught a number of covert glances at himself : was that what a few moment 's conversation with a presidential aide did for you in this town ? |
| 10 | I am most grateful , therefore , to James Freeman , chairman of the PLC who spoke to me on this matter . |
| 11 | I thought that , and I 'm not an expert in but I thought this was a penetrating critique and all goes well for how the department is handling in a very difficult starting situation , a most important matter but there is Mr spoke to me about this paper and er I think we will have to hear what Mr had to say , I do n't know who 's going to report that . |
| 12 | One young teacher working in a more conservative college spoke to me of this period with some amusement . |
| 13 | And they sent back and now this is what they said to us in this letter I remember this distinctly that er if we want you to come out we 'll tell you but we regard your factories as our second line of defence . |
| 14 | Elizabeth wrote to me at this time . |
| 15 | We pointed out them from this side of the house er the local government 's finance act does impose both duties . |
| 16 | Emlyn Williams , who stayed with them in this period while he was on a tour with his Charles Dickens readings , describes scenes of domestic industry and felicity . |