Example sentences of "this [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead . |
| 2 | This I overplayed by spending too much time in the rear of the stalls watching rehearsals , and an assistant would take over the Royal deliveries . |
| 3 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 4 | In the next letter he wrote me , dated 7 May , he announced that he was to have a holiday ; and this I knew to be much overdue . |
| 5 | ‘ She was so bad that I thought it well to have oxygen administered ; this I procured from Blake , Edgar 's . |
| 6 | So this I thought about doing something on the erm , the new schools ' group what we when we finish the . |
| 7 | It has meant that I have sampled virtually every type of hotel/guest house accommodation imaginable and this I present as part of my qualification to address the subject in question . |
| 8 | This I posted to Eliot . |
| 9 | ‘ What 's this I hear of you ? ’ said Isambard in the formidably courteous voice in which he habitually gave his orders . |
| 10 | ‘ What 's this I hear about you selling firewood ? ’ the man demanded . |
| 11 | ‘ Now what 's this I hear about this madman driving an Irish Ford ? ’ |
| 12 | By the way , ’ he added in a knowing manner , ‘ what 's all this I hear about there being no gravity on the Moon ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , seeing me mixing rose madder and burnt sienna in my paint-box , ‘ what 's all this I hear about a new mother ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ What 's this I hear about the dreaded Wullie ? ’ |
| 15 | By this I refer to the acknowledged limitations on the ability to infer the contents of consciousness from any number of behavioural or physiological observations . |
| 16 | This I refer to as the ‘ Nottingham Forest Approach to law ’ . |
| 17 | This I regard as a possible but less natural meaning of the section . |
| 18 | This I consider pre eminently suited to the street front of a public building . |
| 19 | The Dempster was called into court by the ringing of a bell and recited the sentence as recorded by the Clerk of the Court adding " This I give for doom . " |
| 20 | He goes on to say : ‘ What therefore you worship as unknown , this I proclaim to you ’ ( Acts 17:23 ) . |
| 21 | This I do with all my heart . |
| 22 | This I shouted over morning watering-time , while our tiny charges discovered a hundred and one ways with pure organic apple juice . |
| 23 | This I handed to a nurse , asking her to give it to the doctor before he saw Nigel . |
| 24 | This I did for five weeks returning to hospital to have my X-rays checked . |
| 25 | This I did at once with a feeling of self-importance which blinded me to the now obvious fact that she was abrogating her responsibilities and allowing them to devolve , once more , upon her eldest daughter . |
| 26 | This I did in what I thought were circumstances of great secrecy . |
| 27 | This I gave to Shawcraft . |
| 28 | As life speeds up like this I move among the urban people , in the urban setting , the city 's metal and mortar , its sharper interactions , with more grit and bite in the gears . |
| 29 | All this I watched through a spyhole , under a workbench in a disused supply hut towards the birch wood , with blanket , kummel bottle — and rosary fingered like an abacus , as I counted them in . |
| 30 | All this I learn from the bus driver who chats to me as we wait for the traffic ahead to move . |