Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had been very kind to her the past few weeks , and she knew he was right , that the showing would be a fiasco if it went on this way . |
| 2 | The new subject of International Relations must find the best ways of making leaders aware of the dysfunctional nature of war , or , if it failed in this , appeal directly to the populations concerned . |
| 3 | If you are not feeling as well as you did at the beginning of the week , go back to the Stage I diet for two or three days ; your weight should fall again if it rose during this week . |
| 4 | At that point , it could be doing all sorts of weird things , and you 'd think oh , I 've got this wonderful graph and I plotted a lot of points close together , so I know my sketch was right , because it looked like this funny W thing or M or something |
| 5 | So our involvement was for it to be presented to us before it came to this meeting . |
| 6 | ‘ Before it got to this stage there would undoubtedly have been letters flying between the two . |
| 7 | Well that , I could n't believe it when it fell over this morning . |
| 8 | He did see himself very much as a responsible figure as far as other people 's well being was concerned when it came to this , and this was probably based on the fact that his step-brother , Terry , by his mother 's previous marriage , was classified as schizophrenic , a problem which David felt could be hereditary . ’ |
| 9 | It meant a three-horse jump-off of the riders on four faults and , when it came to this , Whitaker had no problems going clear with his own Everest Lifestyle to leave Mark Armstrong , Friday night 's Grand Prix winner , as runner-up with Rockall . |
| 10 | Political practice was condemned when it went beyond this constitutional state of affairs . |
| 11 | And everybody was getting a bit bored with it cos as it dragged on this is s seven months when you know a long time to be I never thought it would have gone this as long as that when we started off with it . |