Example sentences of "this [noun] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure enough , Marc quirked his brow and asked , ‘ You intend to stick to this story that she knew nothing of your financial prospects ? ’ |
| 2 | One thing said in support of the idea that we take effects to be probable events , and , more particularly , said against the analysis expounded in this chapter that we take them to be necessitated events , is relevant enough , although likely to be disdained by the high-minded . |
| 3 | On the other hand , it was on this condition that I joined your company : you agreed that should your business ever go public , I would have fifteen per cent of the equity for the nominal sum of fifteen thousand pounds . |
| 4 | Eisenhower commented in June that the British were so incensed by this question that he felt they would prefer to lose the oil , even to the USSR , rather than admit defeat . |
| 5 | It was at this moment that I decided I must learn to dance , so that I could stay on at the pensione instead of roaming about . |
| 6 | It was from this room that he wrote his first and only communications with the outside world . |
| 7 | And so it was in the light of this suspicion that I examined my friend 's body and my own . |
| 8 | All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club . |
| 9 | Gedge 's studies came to an end and it was at this point that he realised his obsessive interest in music could not be satisfied by part-time activity while he searched for a ‘ proper ’ job . |
| 10 | It was at this point that he found himself face to face with Cinzia Miletti . |
| 11 | Er , yeah , I think , I think it 's this stress that he felt he was under which led him to panic . |
| 12 | No , no he did n't , he did n't blow it at all no , it 's not on till four twenty this morning er three forty this morning that he blew it in , in the end . |
| 13 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 14 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 15 | If you were a professional model I should probably require you to take every stitch of clothing off , let alone your shoes and stockings , and , if you will remember , it is on the grounds of the business-like aspect of this arrangement that I have your aunt 's sanction to paint you . |
| 16 | There were , however , some true ministers , typified by the two witnesses of Revelations xx , and it was in this sense that he described himself as ‘ an unworthy witness ’ of the Lord . |
| 17 | It is into this sonship that he installs us . |
| 18 | It is from this cairn that you gain your close hand view of Pillar Rock . |
| 19 | This is very clever of Brutus , saying that he loved Caesar more than anybody , and it was for this love that he killed him , to prevent him from the trouble brewing ahead for him . |
| 20 | It was to celebrate recovery from this illness that he wrote his Hymn to the Supreme Being , on Recovery from a dangerous fit of Illness . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 22 | It was for this reason that she called herself ‘ stupid ’ . |
| 23 | ( It was from the time of this incarceration that he developed his chest and joint complaints . ) |
| 24 | It 's a a a re a really nice restaurant but you can pick all your food raw and they just , there 's a chef cooking , and you just get one of these plates , you can have as many helpings as you want , they serve you a cold starter and a hot starter but there 's a buffet that 's about half the size of our club and one side of it it 's all fish on a wet fish slab , and steak , and veal , and chicken and so there 's every sort of meat you can think of , and you can pick a wooden platter full of it , so you go and give it the chef with this number that they give you and then they come serve you with whatever you want . |
| 25 | Erm now , so he said erm that 's what they 're aiming for this thing that they want them to do on May the eighteenth plus a sponsorship walk on the sixth of June |
| 26 | So , time and time again , when you actually look at it , when you actually look at this position that we find ourselves in , there is n't an easy receipt to be made that can be used that actually provided what the business is about . |
| 27 | I mean , it 's for Christmas this year that we want it . |
| 28 | So I 'm hoping that this system that I give you will allow you to do that , anybody been a best man at a wedding ? |
| 29 | It was during this visit that I realized what people must have gone through simply to immigrate to the United States . |
| 30 | I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill . |