Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his preface to the catalogue , Apollinaire wrote : ‘ The new painters who made manifest this year , at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants of Paris , their artistic ideals , accept the name of Cubists which has been given to them . |
| 2 | THERE ARE SO many people who helped to make this time special that I am sorry not to be able to mention them all by name . |
| 3 | Before I hand over to Dave to tell his side of the story , I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dave , Richard , Liz and all the JM staff at sites around the country who helped to organise this event which has raised so much for our Charity of the Year . |
| 4 | and then for there 's this thing treating people who 'd ruined this guy 's marriage |
| 5 | As for the rest of the staff , I will miss each one of the people who served to get this magazine on its feet . |
| 6 | It 's inserted into the poem in two ways : first the devils are identified with the pagan gods — they are introduced , indeed , with a great fanfare in the first book and given all sorts of classical erm and oriental names , and Milton explains to us that of course it was the devils themselves who managed to disperse this tradition that that 's who they really were ; and second , and though less central and less impressive in its poetic results , is perhaps the second device which is more interesting when we think of the poem in terms of Milton 's personal involvement . |
| 7 | Karl Marx was not the only economist who died holding this belief . |
| 8 | The first firms , such as Boyden and Handy , who emerged to accommodate this demand did not appear overnight . |
| 9 | To those who wished to have this discretion , his message was always the same : It is quite clear from several sources that general opinion among the bishops was in favour of relaxations for ‘ reasonable ’ causes , but Anselm resisted every appeal for moderation : for him no relaxation could be ‘ reasonable ’ . |
| 10 | Luke , the man who had such a low opinion of her and who had contrived this date presumably to serve his own devious ends , this man who had denied — yes , even earlier tonight — any involvement with Elise … |
| 11 | American fishkeepers who had maintained this fish had a somewhat different view . |
| 12 | No one ever knew who had fed this line to Kim . |
| 13 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |
| 14 | Anna liked and sympathised with the girl who had written this letter . |
| 15 | ‘ Probably an interositor , ’ said Tuppe , who had seen This Island Earth three times . |
| 16 | Police discovered them in a raid , after they were tipped off by a buyer who had seen this advert in the motoring magazine Exchange and Mart . |
| 17 | Though he was the descendant of a family who had done this sort of task for generation after generation , George nevertheless made it look as though he were acting . |
| 18 | The captain , who had done this sort of thing before , did not discuss it and discouraged any of his officers and men from doing so . |
| 19 | She was called upon , day after day , to sustain Mrs Browning in her awful anxiety and she did it willingly , dragging out from the furthermost corners of her memory evidence of Miss Henrietta s strength and fortitude together with examples of women of whom she had heard who had survived this disease . |
| 20 | Her Royal Highness went round the room meeting many of those who had supported this Gala evening . |
| 21 | Take-up has stemmed partly from the wish of those companies trading internationally and particularly in the highly litigious US to protect their directors and partly because , as Willis Corroon 's Drew Hardie said , ‘ when directors who had had this cover then moved to other companies they asked for it to be part of their new contract ’ . |
| 22 | To determine the effect of cholecystectomy , the women who had had this operation were compared with the women who were discovered on ultrasonography to have gall stones ( n=48 , aged 25 to 67 , mean 45 ) , all but three of whom were asymptomatic . |
| 23 | Yet Roxborough Tower was kept well by its owners , who once every month or so gathered in the single room which occupied the top floor of the building in the name of the man who had owned this plot of land two hundred years before , and who had left |
| 24 | Yet it had been Eleanor who had started this war of words ; Eleanor who had tried to interfere in something that should have been none of her business . |
| 25 | She was the one who had initiated this skirmish . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes ? ’ said Snizort , who had forgotten this business of having your thoughts overheard . |
| 27 | Obviously the men who had used this room over the years had tried to flick their cigarettes into the hearth from the bed , and the majority had missed . |
| 28 | Then he began to recite a litany of the individual bones and of the past Commanders who had held this fortress-monastery for the Emperor . |
| 29 | Lee Kuan Yew , the former Prime Minister and current Senior Minister who had held this post for some 35 years , would continue to serve as a member of the party 's central executive committee . |
| 30 | That position had been urged in amicus briefs filed by the French Republic and ( less emphatically ) by the Federal Republic of Germany , although the petitioners who had taken this position in the lower courts did not maintain it in the Supreme Court . |