Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend of mine who accompanied him to a play disputed this , but it was true . |
| 2 | Nicholson had feared that his hurdling star might be tapped for speed on faster ground than he likes and around this sharpish track , but Mighty Mogul passed this major test with flying colours . |
| 3 | The duo face competition from at least five bank-led consortia , all vying to operate the network , which should be up and running by 1995 , with the licence award expected this autumn . |
| 4 | Perhaps his own impatient temperament made this especially essential in his case : I myself fled to the wilderness when it proved no longer possible to live harmoniously with men , who , admittedly , were a frequent obstacle to my inner joy . |
| 5 | I once attempted to read his first book , Alex Through The Looking Glass , but stumbled and fell at page 10 where the Hurricane made this observation on the subject of literature : ‘ My favourite read is Robert Ludlum . |
| 6 | Though now brewery owned this old basement bar , dating back to 1830 , remains little changed — thanks to the pressure of the locals . |
| 7 | Long afterwards , giving evidence at the Nuremberg Trials in 1947 , the Crown Prince made this interesting remark : |
| 8 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 9 | Tripos designed this next generation 2D- and 3D-searching program for corporate and relational database access , conformational flexible searching and chemical registration in conjunction with nine consortium companies , leading scientific collaborators , and strategic software and data suppliers . |
| 10 | Tests using Auto cad bore this out with an overall 55% increase in shade operations falling to 16% in subtract operations . |
| 11 | The Cabinet , advised by the economic planners under Sir Edwin Plowden , decided year-by-year allocations of the vital materials , and the Ministry used this as a basis for their discussions on financial investment limits with the BEA . |
| 12 | As early as 14 September 1939 , Jonas Barrington in the Daily Express described this voice that called from Germany , though in the first instance it probably belonged to Norman Baillie-Stewart : ‘ He speaks English of the haw-haw , dammit-get-out-of-my-way-variety , and his strong suit is gentlemanly indignation . ’ |
| 13 | The little gold key unlocked this door easily , but of course Alice could not get through it — she was much too big . |
| 14 | Eight hundred million on the East Coast main line , four hundred million for rolling stock announced this week , four hundred million in new contracts , there 's a lot of money going in right now . |
| 15 | MIND realised this a long time ago . |
| 16 | Dot hugged this doll whose face was still whole . |
| 17 | The Northern Echo revealed this week how Dr Paul Lawler , clinical director at South Tees Hospital , had submitted a report of the bed shortage to the Northern Regional Health Authority . |
| 18 | The President announced this action and explained its background to a startled nation over nationwide television on 22 October . |
| 19 | The use of the same stylised figure made this exhibition read as a story , the same figure entering into a different tale in each work . |
| 20 | That the Board of Review made this assumption appears also from the reference in their first determination to the profits accruing to the taxpayer from the fees derived from the sub-licencing being sourced in the countries to which the sub-licences related . |
| 21 | The industry met this threat in 1922 by appointing its own censor , Harding 's former Postmaster-General , Will Hays . |
| 22 | But with a lower costs base and 6 p.c. rise in advertising revenue expected this year , the company is dipping into reserves to lift the dividend total 11 p.c. to 16p , with a 13⅛p final on June 8 . |
| 23 | No amount of research revealed this as a recorded route , even in Georgian times . |
| 24 | When The Scotsman 's music critic reviewed this production in Paris last month she was overwhelmed by its beauty but others have taken the view that two pianos no matter how superbly played can never be as effective as a great orchestra . |
| 25 | When The Scotsman 's music critic reviewed this production in Paris she was overwhelmed by its beauty , but others have taken the view that two pianos , no matter how superbly played , can never be as effective as a great orchestra . |
| 26 | The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos . |
| 27 | When Her Majesty used this coach , a platform , or flat truck was placed ahead of it to give an unobstructed view . |
| 28 | One study used this approach to handle design decisions within an assembly of parts described by a three-dimensional wireframe modeller ( see Figures 2.7 and 2.8 ) . |
| 29 | For example , a male tutor from the local college used this technique to cajole some of the male users into joining the bridging course . |
| 30 | A member of the government delegation described this claim as ridiculous , adding that the removal of Dhlakama would damage the peace process by rendering the MNR " even more incoherent " . |