Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] this [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes ? ’ said Snizort , who had forgotten this business of having your thoughts overheard . |