Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said well he said after that I got it off pneumonia . |
| 2 | And this I get plenty of opportunity to do — to puzzle at it , I mean . |
| 3 | After Dame Sirith has agreed to help , Wilekin pays her : ( " Take , here , twenty shillings : this I give you in reward to buy sheep and swine for yourself . " ) |
| 4 | It was no use offering him money , for he would immediately spend it on drink , but I suggested that he try his hand at very light work — sweeping the hospital floor , later a little gardening , and for this I paid him in meals cooked by Toma at home . |
| 5 | He had been active in south Wales under Edward IV , being made chamberlain there in 1479 , and it may have been this which brought him to Gloucester 's attention . |
| 6 | He had been active in south Wales under Edward IV , being made chamberlain there in 1479 , and it may have been this which brought him to Gloucester 's attention . |
| 7 | She pulled the half-empty cup towards her , and after quickly filling another she passed it to him , smiling at him , saying again , ‘ Sorry . ’ |
| 8 | One way or another she brought it on herself . |
| 9 | Curiously , there were very few who availed themselves of this privilege . |
| 10 | Mosley 's political odyssey in the inter-war period ultimately led him and some who admired him to fascism , the most radical rejection of the cosy nature of the high politics of British tradition . |
| 11 | And that would be , that would be , so if we 're doing it this way , right , let's let's erm , forget about where we are sitting at the moment now , and just look we 're in a helicopter looking at these ships now , so this one radios you in the helicopter and says , that ship S is on a bearing of forty five degrees |
| 12 | However , this one makes it by virtue of it being an array of versions of General Levy 's fine ‘ Heat ’ rhythm . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , maybe you know the story of the d'Urberville carriage , ’ said Angel , ‘ and this one reminds you of it . |
| 14 | A fully grown red tail is a massive bird , over two feet tall — this one looks me in the eye when she sits on my fist . |
| 15 | To do this he sent me to another sort of specialist who inserted through my neck a needle containing blue dye , guided it with the help of a television screen into the top of my spinal cord and then watched its progress as it trickled down . |
| 16 | At the Warwickshire Eyre of 1221 , one Reginald was found not guilty of the rape of Margery daughter of Aelfric ‘ because a long time before this he had her of her own free will , and again two years afterwards in the house of her father , and they say no cry was raised . ’ |
| 17 | He 'd put his mind to it that he would n't , you know this he had it in mind that we were going to work for this thirty pound a week less , take it or leave it . |
| 18 | Stark however was keen to distinguish knowledge from ideology and in this he differentiated himself from Mannheim 's position which he regarded as too dominated by Marxism ( Stark 1958 : 104 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ To this he called you through our gospel , so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ ’ ( 2 Thess. 2 : 1 4 ) . |
| 20 | Hercules acquired through Athena an enormous bronze rattle made by Hephaistos , and with this he scared them from their coverts , then shot them down with arrows , the tips of which were poisoned with the blood of the Hydra . |
| 21 | And when he had said this he placed himself at the feet of the Bishop , and there before all the people made a general confession of all his sins , and all the faults which he had committed against our Lord Jesus Christ . |
| 22 | When one player meets another he challenges him by saying , ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 23 | I know there are terrible things out there , but that is n't an excuse for giving up on that which sustains us in this life . |
| 24 | How many banal and clumsy , weak and foolish artists have justified their work as that which saved them from despair . |
| 25 | The most valuable part of this book , and that which makes it worth reading is the discussion of the life of Lamarck and of Lamarckism considered as an important episode in cultural history . |
| 26 | But in 1992 , the only thrusting we can expect of a businessman is that which propels him from a very high building on to the recession-hit pavement below . |
| 27 | John is the only person I talk to about how ugly and disgusting I feel , how fat I think I am , how much I hate myself for being out of control . |
| 28 | You ca n't know how much I hate myself for not believing you . |
| 29 | It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years . |
| 30 | In the past they worked as long as they were able : it was illness rather than age as such which placed them in need . |