Example sentences of "was this " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was this idiot , sailing along desperately trying to simulate an atmosphere of … |
| 2 | What happened was this . |
| 3 | And yet , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I also knew that it was this cold that drew me , this steady destruction of body and imagination , this utter alienness , as though only that could still excite me , as though anything less alien would only leave me indifferent . |
| 4 | The owner of ‘ The Hollybush ’ at Elstree proposed to infill an original coach arch in the pub 's facade and to demolish the timber framed side walls of the passageway behind in order to form a larger and open interior , even though it was this feature that distinguished the building as an historic inn . |
| 5 | It was this , I am thinking , that made Miss Jonathan realize that if the marriage she was about to enter into with a man much different from herself , and older also , would not go well , she would never from a Catholic be obtaining a divorce . |
| 6 | Was this common knowledge , Peggy wondered ? |
| 7 | All it took was this fifty-pound note and people not giving me another chance … ’ |
| 8 | What it came down to was this : if I was going to do anything I was going to have to take on another part-time catering or cleaning job . |
| 9 | When a blow-over does occur , you will always hear the people concerned state , quite truthfully : ‘ Up to that time the wind had been quite acceptable and then there was this bad gust … |
| 10 | Jesus , what was this aching nonsense ? |
| 11 | If only I was this , if I 'd only said that , done the other — why always ME ? |
| 12 | ‘ Teenage music ’ had not yet arrived , and what there was was essentially for adults , in the form of country and western and rhythm and blues ; jazz was popular , of course , in some circles , but for the rest it was this or classical music , which Leonard also enjoyed , and waltzes . |
| 13 | It was this that fostered an even more radical bid for his independence . |
| 14 | It was this ‘ nature ’ that caused Nathan to act as the factory supervisor — ‘ a good guy ’ so far as the workers were concerned ; and allowed Horace the seniority , as ‘ a front-office man . ’ |
| 15 | It was this work , along with the subsequent brilliance of his public performances , that created his reputation as ‘ Canada 's leading young poet ’ : ‘ His virtues are his own , and they are considerable … at his best he expresses himself , sometimes whimsically , sometimes passionately , in speech which is beyond the capacity of mere formula to produce , ’ commented Allan Donaldson at the time . |
| 16 | You know how damp it was this morning . |
| 17 | The earlier traditions had focused not on experience as the key element in mind , but on intellect and thought ; it was this that made mind special and different from anything physical . |
| 18 | The point of the experiments was this : strong social pressure was being put on these children to agree to a realist answer ( they were not allowed out of the room until they had an answer ! ) and if their usual tendency to interpret questions phenomenally is a trivial and weak effect then this social pressure should obliterate it . |
| 19 | It was this ability to display a ballerina 's apparent weightlessness and sheer joy in dance that was so impressive when the Spirits of the Air danced in Homage to the Queen , Ashton 's exquisite celebration of the 1952 Coronation which was danced by Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes . |
| 20 | A return seemed unlikely , but at the same time there was this intriguing question : just what would it be like to be up there , 20 pitches out , on a wall as hard as many a belted route , but with no bolts ? |
| 21 | It was this aspect of Leavisism that Oxford English , with its broad though often flaccid eclecticism , was most opposed to . |
| 22 | nor was this from sunset |
| 23 | In fact she has made a cryptic entrance already in the fifteenth line of this canto : ‘ … of Berengar his heirs was this Eleanor ’ . |
| 24 | And once again it was this unrelenting professionalism in Pound that set , and continues to set , Englishmen 's teeth on edge . |
| 25 | To his professional duties he had added the role of Departmental Safety Officer , and it was this experience which took him in 1977 to Imperial College in the new post of College Safety Director . |
| 26 | And later in the war , in 1943 , it was this imposing natural wall of shingle which was used by the famous Dambusters as a practice target before their attack on the Mohne and Eder dams in Germany . |
| 27 | ‘ I decided that I had to put the headmaster in a position to answer and it was this problem that worried me most — more than the outrageous charges against myself and the effect on my family . |
| 28 | The judge clearly adopted the right test — was this mother 's decision in the circumstances of the case within the bank of what a reasonable mother would do — and he was entitled to say ‘ No , it was not ’ . |
| 29 | It would be inappropriate , however , to avoid the general subject of birth control , since it was this very question which ostensibly destroyed his ambition to lead the Conservative Party , and indeed , to be prime minister . |
| 30 | Was this an ecumenical endorsement of the Archbishop of Canterbury on Thatcherism ? |