Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Floy began to have the sensation that he was being watched , not by Balor or Snodgrass , but by other creatures , creatures who lived in this huge , dark forest , and crept out only under cover of darkness … |
| 2 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it is fair to say that he was far more conscious of the reductionist tendencies in logical positivism than were others who passed through this particular school of thought . |
| 4 | A monarch who behaved in this way could rely on the support of many of the leading intellectuals of the age , however despotic his power . |
| 5 | I thank all of you who supported me and particularly all those who helped in this non-target ward campaign . |
| 6 | Finally many thanks are due to everyone who contributed to this edition . |
| 7 | Finally very many thanks are again due to everyone who contributed to this edition . |
| 8 | We acknowledge the generous financial support of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths and the cooperation of the parents , health professionals , and interpreters who contributed towards this research . |
| 9 | The desire to shelter large sections of the population from military service also strengthened the willingness of most governments to employ foreign mercenaries , who retained throughout this period much of the importance they had possessed since the Renaissance . |
| 10 | I 'm trying to trace a member of our family who moved to this part of London during the war , looking for work . |
| 11 | It was the City banks with mercantile connections , rather than the West End houses used by the landed classes , who moved into this relationship — less surprising than it seems , for , as Joslin pointed out , the country banks had themselves most often grown from country merchant or manufacturing activities . |
| 12 | The Chancellor was Mr Major , who recognised in this diminutive capable figure an appetite for detail which rivalled his own . |
| 13 | All at once , I was in a wild fury of rage : I saw , not Nonni , but all the foolish and ignorant people who seemed at this moment to be conspiring together against all the forces of right and reason to poison and destroy the world . |
| 14 | Those who sailed in this week brought the population of Vietnamese in Hong Kong to more than 50,000 . |
| 15 | While they all concentrated on paintings , the exhibition ‘ Entartete Bildhauer ’ at the Westfälisches Landesmuseum is exclusively devoted to the sculptors who suffered from this verdict . |
| 16 | Clarke ( 24 ) , who suffered from this ailment before , says he is n't unduly worried . |
| 17 | Oh that lady who came with this , she said er Arthur happened to say he 'd just bought it , and she said how much did they charge you , twenty five pounds or thirty pounds ? |
| 18 | I wanted to ensure that foreign visitors who came to this country were also covered by insurance . |
| 19 | We know very little about how the experience of ageing will vary between those who came to this country a-s economic migrants and the indigenous population . |
| 20 | During the recent troubles in India , many of the people who came to this country and who said that they were refugees from oppression by the Indian Government were proposing various forms of armed or violent protest against that Government . |
| 21 | In a combative pre-election speech Gorbachev delivered a blistering attack on conservative thinking and " those who came to this congress hoping to take the party back to the old condition of commands and orders " . |
| 22 | This will represent a saving of £10 for those members who opted for this extension in the past . |
| 23 | Waldendale means the dale of the Welshman , Welsh being a word once used to describe any foreigner , though in this case it probably refers to the last remnants of the Celtic peoples who retreated to this dale in the face of Norse and Anglo-Saxon expansion . |
| 24 | Given the central objective of this category of public interest immunity as ‘ the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force , ’ given the grave public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice on the part of some at least of those who served in the now disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , given the extensive publicity already attaching to the documents here in question following the appellant 's successful appeal , it seems to us nothing short of absurd to suppose that those who co-operated in this investigation — largely other police officers and court officials — will regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses will withhold it , were this court now to release the documents to C.N.L. to enable them to defeat if they can an allegedly corrupt claim in damages . |
| 25 | ‘ This belonged to the gentleman explorer who happened upon this city many years ago , ’ he explained . |
| 26 | If you had observed my father who arrived in this house a week after you did , you will have seen that his house knowledge is perfect and was so almost from the time he set foot in Darlington Hall . ’ |
| 27 | Instead of siding with the bishops who protested at this action , Henry put his weight behind the anti-clerical agitation and agreed to pass legislation reforming the church in a number of relatively minor ways . |
| 28 | It was interesting to talk with a family who belonged to this high priest 's group and hear their side of the story . |
| 29 | But in 1869 Uncle Elias , who belonged to this secret group , suddenly left America with all their papers , and so the group could not go on . |
| 30 | Let us pray for all who ha who served on this airfield during the Second World War and the relatives of those who died . |