Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually incorporated this idea into his wider plan for tackling unemployment , the 1930 Mosley Memorandum . |
| 2 | He obviously intended this remark to conclude their conversation for he half-turned to call his grooms . |
| 3 | But he impatiently dismissed this line of thought . |
| 4 | I have marmalade on toast right and he only said this morning and he said do n't forget the marmalade , he 's chucking the jar out . |
| 5 | He did not know why he suddenly felt this way ; he was not angry with himself , or with us , and he was not crying . |
| 6 | He suddenly found this notion very funny and burst into-laughter . |
| 7 | And I had the impression that , he just adopted this child through sheer sorrow and sympathy for her but , did not say , erm , categorically that that was his . |
| 8 | He largely reshaped this family business , rescuing it from near bankruptcy in the 1860s , extending it into tinplate in Monmouthshire , carrying through several amalgamations , and turning it into a public company in 1902 . |
| 9 | As Ras Makonnen 's son , he had been rapturously received by its inhabitants , and by his justice and humanity he soon merited this acclaim . |
| 10 | To have asked him to be a godfather had crossed my mind ; but I knew that he already held this office in plurality . |
| 11 | If he ever found this girl he would thank her for choosing to live in that quarter of the city . |
| 12 | In 1942 and 1943 , he gradually broke this silence , but not to appease Roosevelt . |
| 13 | Somehow he always had this feeling when he was with Mick . |
| 14 | He usually left this shop to the end because they rarely gave him an order and the road was one he hated . |
| 15 | He also said this kind of feeling is why he wants to stay in football as long as possible . |
| 16 | He probably enjoyed this aspect of his work more than any other , because the pub land to a lesser extent , the steak house ) was his spiritual home . |
| 17 | He probably did this sort of thing all the while . |
| 18 | The model of branching relationships would eventually lead Owen towards a limited kind of evolutionism ( see below ) , but he carefully suppressed this implication in the pre-Darwinian era . |
| 19 | He partly supported this belief by the fact that of the 3,700 books or articles listed in the two-volume Criminology Index ( Wolfgang , Figlio , and Thornberry 1975 ) which reviews theoretical and empirical work in criminology from 1945 to 1972 , there were only ninety-two , or about 2.5 per cent , dealing with white-collar or corporate crime . |
| 20 | But he later applied this insight to the central issues of political and legal theory . |
| 21 | He later described this instinct as a ‘ striving for perfection ’ and an ‘ upward striving ’ . |
| 22 | He later abandoned this practice , except for the tedium of commissioned replicas when he was court painter , even though it was almost universal at the time . |
| 23 | A long-standing independent member of the Polish Parliament — the Sejm — he often used this position as a platform from which to criticise the Government and the ruling Party . |
| 24 | Previously he had been engaged in making a geological map of Devon and he now continued this work in an official capacity . |
| 25 | Alyssia looked at his expressive hands , the long , clever fingers , and she wondered how well he really knew this woman . |
| 26 | He particularly liked this stretch ; nothing but the odd tractor and the horses ever came down this embankment , and the birds were unworried by his presence . |
| 27 | He then made this advice public , thus instituting a free legal aid service of a novel kind . |
| 28 | He sadly posted this letter on a wet Sunday afternoon in Leeds . |
| 29 | He therefore confirmed this constitution , and anathematized anyone who sought to destroy it . |
| 30 | And he specifically said this bloke none |