Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Douglas Young reports from the Berlin Film Festival on several exciting discoveries he made among this year 's entries ( and some he wishes he had n't ) |
| 2 | There was such regret , such a bleakness in his eyes that Lissa turned away , her soul crying out in anguish because it was plain for anyone to see how much he cared for this woman who had betrayed him . |
| 3 | ‘ Which is why it 's so super that he agreed to this interview , ’ she quickly covered her slip . |
| 4 | That 's why he agreed to this article on the hacienda . ’ |
| 5 | Among the informants he met in this way was a Lebanese Army officer known as ‘ The Captain' , with close connections to the Jafaar clan . |
| 6 | ( He failed on this occasion . ) |
| 7 | And when he got into this lane he was about a hundred yards off the village . |
| 8 | He rejoiced in this confirmation of the essential harmony of science and religion . |
| 9 | But then , suppose he found in this Bowl some indication as to how the Society might be handled ? |
| 10 | On behalf of Mrs Kemp he objected to this denial of the rules of natural justice . |
| 11 | A few years before he died he posed for this effigy , placing the completed picture in his room , adjacent to his bed , as a memento mori . |
| 12 | When he moved at this time to larger premises at no. 5 Charing Cross , his maps were reputed the finest being engraved anywhere in the world . |
| 13 | He referred to this condition as the ‘ mind-wandering habit ’ . |
| 14 | He wandered about this neck of the woods and he was quite harmless , he was fond of children . |
| 15 | He stopped at this thought , wondering if dogs came along here frequently . |
| 16 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 17 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 18 | Mary Benson recalls Orton Chirwa in Britain 40 years ago when he came to this country to protest against imposition of the Central African Federation : ‘ How vividly one recalls Orton , the slight , bespectacled , amused young lawyer who proved to be an articulate , passionate speaker whose wit enlivened public meetings from London to Edinburgh , while Banda , then a GP in Willesden , embarrassed organisers with his tub-thumping rhetoric — Banda the medical doctor , who was to subject Orton and Vera Chirwa to such extremes of suffering , remaining impervious to every appeal and protest on their behalf . |
| 19 | They were moving with me all the time and er , the eldest child was four year 's old when he came to this country and er , two and a half year 's old the girl , younger to him . |
| 20 | He came to this village where there was a festival going on , with everyone taking part in a dance . |
| 21 | He came to this village where there was a festival going on , with everyone taking part in a dance . |
| 22 | He came to this charge after years in Mount Darwin , where the war is going on . |
| 23 | There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . |
| 24 | Well , the angel Gabriel disguised himself as a poor beggar and walked through the forest until he came to this pear tree . |
| 25 | Now I hear some of you saying this : ‘ Jesus saved me from my sins by taking my burdens himself ; he came to this earth to save me and to redeem me . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He came across this seed in Cumbria and said : ‘ I wonder if we ought to invest in a bit ? ’ . |
| 27 | So he came along this morning and picked it up ! |
| 28 | What if he came in this evening through a door that was n't there and sat in a chair-shape , reading a paper that had never been printed , saying aloud bits that were only hum and haw again to me ? |
| 29 | He came in this morning with fourteen different bottles . |
| 30 | 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 . |