Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the rest of the staff , I will miss each one of the people who served to get this magazine on its feet . |
| 2 | No one ever knew who had fed this line to Kim . |
| 3 | Police discovered them in a raid , after they were tipped off by a buyer who had seen this advert in the motoring magazine Exchange and Mart . |
| 4 | Though he was the descendant of a family who had done this sort of task for generation after generation , George nevertheless made it look as though he were acting . |
| 5 | The captain , who had done this sort of thing before , did not discuss it and discouraged any of his officers and men from doing so . |
| 6 | Yet Roxborough Tower was kept well by its owners , who once every month or so gathered in the single room which occupied the top floor of the building in the name of the man who had owned this plot of land two hundred years before , and who had left |
| 7 | Yet it had been Eleanor who had started this war of words ; Eleanor who had tried to interfere in something that should have been none of her business . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes ? ’ said Snizort , who had forgotten this business of having your thoughts overheard . |
| 9 | Obviously the men who had used this room over the years had tried to flick their cigarettes into the hearth from the bed , and the majority had missed . |
| 10 | Then he began to recite a litany of the individual bones and of the past Commanders who had held this fortress-monastery for the Emperor . |
| 11 | Lee Kuan Yew , the former Prime Minister and current Senior Minister who had held this post for some 35 years , would continue to serve as a member of the party 's central executive committee . |
| 12 | That position had been urged in amicus briefs filed by the French Republic and ( less emphatically ) by the Federal Republic of Germany , although the petitioners who had taken this position in the lower courts did not maintain it in the Supreme Court . |