Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | . was the fire brigade chief , was a newspaper man , and this was how we ran in this village . |
| 32 | ‘ I think the whole system is totally wrong , how they dealt with this case and how they deal with similar cases . |
| 33 | Everywhere he went in this land destruction followed . |
| 34 | The defendant who has a belief in consent will be acquitted no matter how he came by this belief and whether or not he considered the possibility of non-consent . |
| 35 | As a youngster — I was twelve when I came to this country — I imagined it was only temporary . |
| 36 | He says , you know when I came to this house I had to have split all my furniture into little bits so I could get it up the stairs . |
| 37 | However , Brenda 's turn is so constructed that it starts in London English with a statement about what happened , and switches to Creole at " cause " ( which could be London English or Creole ) — precisely the point where she begins her explanation of why she acted in this way . |
| 38 | ‘ Half the time you have this little-girl-lost look — like when we walked into this bar tonight — and then suddenly you look all determined and hard . ’ |
| 39 | We know he had fantastic grants , we know how much he had , you know when we went on this strike . |
| 40 | at the time and we took that with us , which was an old fashioned , a really old Victorian suite which we got rid of when we moved into this house . |
| 41 | I think the best thing we can do is leave any talk of work until tomorrow and concentrate on the real reason why we agreed to this evening and get to know one another better . ’ |
| 42 | So it was not surprising that Col. Savill should have had an attentive and appreciative audience on 1 December 1989 , when he spoke on this subject . |
| 43 | He was , after all , the man who brought Richard and Judy to the nation 's screens when he worked on This Morning at Granada . |
| 44 | The German critic , Bernd Witte , recalls that in 1980 , Cannetti gave an interview in which he explained why he embarked on this autobiography in which other people are so important . |
| 45 | That 's why he agreed to this article on the hacienda . ’ |