Example sentences of "this [adv] [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this soon coincided with a clampdown on public expenditure and councils were told they could n't spend as much as they wanted on housing . |
| 2 | This somehow led to a discussion on local football and I discovered that there were eleven fit men and true down at the Kingdom Hall . |
| 3 | To this More replied in a confutation of 500,000 words in which Tyndale was no longer described simply as a heretic but as ‘ a beast ’ discharging ‘ a filthy form of blasphemies out of his beastly brutish mouth , a shameful , shameless , unreasonable , railing ribald ’ . |
| 4 | He was so small and weak that illness was to be expected , but this still came as a shock to Tess . |
| 5 | This probably evolved from a harem system where the females combined forces to overpower and drive out the dominant male . |
| 6 | This inevitably led to a sense of frustration both in pupils and their teachers ; for it seemed that however well taught they were , however much they learned , it was inevitable that a high proportion of candidates would get low or unclassified grades . |
| 7 | This inevitably led to a reduction in staff at those locations and in Hayes . |
| 8 | This sometimes led to a recognition of the problem . |