Example sentences of "[pron] this [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was there nothing this man did that she did n't like , did n't respond to ? |
| 2 | Des said to me this morning did Bev get a phone call yesterday and I said no . |
| 3 | When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton . |
| 4 | A number of farms had a son , or other member of the family , who would attend but of the 87 to whom this question applied the main answer received was : ‘ it depends ’ . |
| 5 | She hoped that the child to whom this home belonged would let her stay and watch him playing . |
| 6 | Through pressure and interest groups it could be claimed that the old democratic principle of participation was reinstated , but in a suitably modern form which accepted that it was not individuals but groups for whom this possibility existed . |
| 7 | Maria thought the evening went well and could only hope those to whom this launch meant so much were equally pleased with the way she acquitted herself . |
| 8 | ‘ Speak for yourself , ’ said Oisin , to whom this remark happened to have been directed . |
| 9 | The man to whom this task fell was Albert Forster . |
| 10 | All four patients who developed this sequence of biopsy changes died , including one patient in whom this pattern occurred in two allografts . |
| 11 | Managers and engineers could not help but admire the assiduity and skill with which he could wear down his opponents in discussion , but for many of them this approach conflicted with other managerial values . |
| 12 | The problems to which this event gave rise still remain for later generations of human beings , handed down to later generations through myth , rituals , arts , philosophy and , above all , religions . |
| 13 | It is impossible to know the extent to which this knowledge had a reactive effect in the field , although the research was designed in such a way as to try to establish , as well as one ever could , whether there was a mask behind which respondents were concealing their true behaviour and feelings . |
| 14 | lets turn the speed up now and head for Silverstone which this weekend staged the biggest kart meeting of the year … four hundred drivers … the best in the world were there … along with our man Mark Kiff |
| 15 | Wilson provides a study which examines not only ( as is often the case ) the lauda repertory of these companies , but also the devotional and socio-political context in which this lauda-singing took place . |
| 16 | Recognition of the way in which this rhetoric drew upon previous discourses and defined the nature of authority relationships provides a more secure interpretation of the chronology of chartism 's rise and subsequent demise than can accounts describing it as merely an expression of acute social and economic deprivation . |
| 17 | Her solicitor , Mr Rohit Sanghvi , added : ‘ The award reflects the outrage which this jury felt and which any decent person would feel at the treatment of my client . |
| 18 | In the picture the car is bound for Victoria Pier via Lytham Road , and is thus fitted with high mesh guards on the top deck to prevent passengers hitting the centre traction poles with which this route had been re-equipped . |
| 19 | Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February . |
| 20 | The government hopes to cover 15% of running costs , which this year amounted to Pta11.29 billion , of which 3.6 billion went to Madrid 's museum of modern art , the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia , and 2.1 billion to the Prado . |
| 21 | The programmes , which this year featured 19 prisoners of conscience or ‘ disappearances ’ , received 15,000 phone calls and letters . |
| 22 | That 's the nickname of Spain 's giant Christmas lottery , El Gordo , which this year paid out £836 million in thousands of prizes . |
| 23 | He has helped in revitalising the Oxford-Cambridge match which this year drew a capacity crowd to Twickenham . |
| 24 | The 15-minute bulletin , which this year won the final of Radio 4 's The Year in Question , beating the flagship Today programme , has been presented by Ed Stewart , Noel Edmonds and Richard Skinner . |
| 25 | She never explained the means by which this journey had been made , though Jarvis some time later overheard a conversation about suicide , his mother referring to her ‘ poor father ’ , and put two and two together . |
| 26 | The circumstances in which this litigation arose are described in the judgment delivered by Vinelott J. on 19 December 1989 as follows : |
| 27 | There 's a site to which this Society objected on Wetherby Road in Harrogate which we thought did n't need developing at all , but in practice the District Council decided they wanted it for industry because it considered the need for industry to be so great and we have along this frontage of Wetherby Road a row of three car showrooms and a token spot of industry behind it . |
| 28 | This is the average quantity of money which this person had available ( i.e. ‘ to hand ’ or ‘ unspent ’ ) over this same period . |
| 29 | ‘ Then one day a learned educationist visited the island and met the boy and was astonished at his understanding of many things and at the knowledge which he had developed round these things , and the educationist said to himself how wonderful it would be if every child in the land had the learning which this boy had built around the simple experiences which he had had with the bees , pigeons , flowers , vegetables , forestry and visits to York and Malham . |
| 30 | Effective deployment of the larger reserves which this system made available required intricate staff work . |