Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [verb] at this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pacifics were used at this time on the Nottingham to Marylebone semi-fasts but they were to be transferred away as the rundown of the GC got underway . |
| 2 | [ BELVILLE is enraged at this revelation of his past amours . ] |
| 3 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 4 | Minton is said at this time to have destroyed some of the erotic drawings which he had begun making after seeing those by Fuseli which Wan Ross had acquired from Ruthven Todd . |
| 5 | Rousseau 's blueprint for the education of Sophie is directed at this end , and if it is truly successful , she will internalise the lesson until neither her behaviour nor her demeanour will demand the acknowledgement . |
| 6 | As originally planned , MOPP was discontinued at this stage ; even assuming that tumour was still present , a further reduction of its volume as a result of more than eight cycles was considered unlikely . |
| 7 | The other related campaign in which Mrs Whitehouse was involved at this time — and more centrally than in the OZ case — was the prosecution brought against the publisher of a book of advice for schoolchildren called The Little Red Schoolbook . |
| 8 | Moscow was said at this stage to have been somewhat sluggish over the provision of spares and replacement items . |
| 9 | The day after the robbery Frank Smith was arrested at this caravan site near Oxford . |
| 10 | Don Neely said that Crowe was asked at this time whether he was available for the World Cup if somebody else were skipper : ‘ I wo n't tell you his reaction . |