Example sentences of "to this [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not an optimist by nature , but since coming to this country I have blessed by good fortune . |
| 2 | If the team adjust to this formation I can see this being OK . |
| 3 | But when I go from hence to this testing I must leave affairs here in one pair of hands , the closest and dearest to me . |
| 4 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 5 | But I felt such a twit , cos I said to this man I , I do n't know about you , but I ca n't get my money . |
| 6 | Strange , to this day I have never met a priest who was n't afraid to die . |
| 7 | But to this day I have nightmares in which I have to go back to school , and I 'm so relieved to wake up and find that it was only a dream . |
| 8 | These were indestructible and to this day I regret ever falling for the slick adverts for trendy green ones . |
| 9 | No-one knew that Jim was even in trouble and to this day I do n't know what it was all about . |
| 10 | And to this day I ca n't go shopping without my gloves on . |
| 11 | To this day I have never seen him react so quickly . |
| 12 | To this day I have never read Stevenson 's text . |
| 13 | To this day I can not ride a bicycle . |
| 14 | I was staggered to realise I had been honoured and to this day I do n't know who put me forward . ’ |
| 15 | Man , to this day I 've never been so sick . ’ |
| 16 | And I should perhaps add that to this day I am practically innumerate . |
| 17 | To this day I 'm still puzzled as to why . |
| 18 | Apparently every now and then it did succeed in reaching one of the lower perches , but I never saw it do so and to this day I do n't know how it managed it . |
| 19 | It moved me so much that I started to weep , and to this day I 'm often physically moved by great paintings . ’ |
| 20 | To this day I know not how he chose ; no , and I do n't know how he should have chosen . |
| 21 | To this day I have a limp . |
| 22 | ‘ To this day I have not played much Chinese music , and certainly not a concerto , and so I thought that this would be a good opportunity to explore that — a least to give Hsiao the encouragement to write one . ’ |
| 23 | To this day I was never sure whether Bill used to do these kind of things accidentally or on purpose . ‘ |
| 24 | I recall being in the first class and er a teacher coming to me , as I were n't paying much attention I think , and to this day I shall remember and never forget , she just folded my arms in front of me and says , Percy , you 're not listening , you 'll have to have a rest . |
| 25 | To this day I can not recall what it was I said to him . |
| 26 | I never saw him again but to this day I wish I could take him to Ibrox and watch the Rangers with him and maybe buy him a half and half pint at one of the Govan pubs . |
| 27 | To this day I frequently learn things from farmers , but that was one time when I learned from a postman . |
| 28 | I really , that 's what I live on now , memories of the happy holidays I 've had with him and , and even to this day I keep in touch . |
| 29 | And to this day I see that woman . |
| 30 | And to this day I shall never be able to understand why so many of my generation , by the time they were in their teens , had a mouthful of dentures because it was not due to eating sweets . |