Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | And because she wanted to know more , she wanted to find out all there was to find out about this dark , ancient stronghold that her ancestors had known , at times she stole out from her bedchamber after nightfall and stood listening to the night rustlings and the soft settling of the old , old timbers ( and the footsteps ? did n't she still hear the footsteps every night ? ) and thought that if only she knew the right words , or if only she had the power , she could summon the enchantments and lay bare the secrets and understand this place . |
| 2 | There was scaffolding up outside this particular one and a pair of rugged , manly types were bolting a large sign into place . |
| 3 | ‘ Why else could they think that father was mixed up in this ? ’ |
| 4 | Great skill would have to be exercised , Lavender told herself , and great secrecy observed if she was to come out of this exploit alive . |
| 5 | The ladies ' K4 500m was slotted in at this point and although Dallaway/Davey/Eastwood/Thorogood were 8th in their heat they went into a semi final which acted as a repêchage . |
| 6 | Much research and development was carried out into this problem during the 1970s ( e.g. McAlpine and Cook 1971 ; Goodchild 1978 ) . |
| 7 | A complementary body of work was carried out at this time by Flavell and his colleagues ( 1981 ) . |
| 8 | Because the transaction was carried out in this way , the loser was Derbyshire 's pension fund . |
| 9 | However , when the company was considering the service and repair of machinery and was thinking of sending it abroad to Scandanavia , it was willing to listen and to ensure that the work was carried out in this country . |
| 10 | The Liverpool manager was seething with rage after his defender David Burrows was carried off in this Coca-Cola Cup tie with a severe knee injury that will keep him out for at least three months . |
| 11 | ‘ I was climbing up through this favela ; I should n't even have been there . |
| 12 | Then I drove into his space well then somebody else came and drove in behind me and the car in front then was sort of , oh yeah , then somebody else came and reversed in in front of him , so the car in front it was across the drive was boxed in by this time , I did n't box him in I just |
| 13 | and she was arched over like this , yeah , and they were getting off and she went for his belt yeah and she was gon na undo his belt and Jules went Laura Laura not now , you know , just do n't undo my belt . |
| 14 | I used to find my bed set at an angle from the wall , and though I straightened it , always it was moved back into this odd position . |
| 15 | Much of central Cheltenham was built out of this deep bed of fine-grained Oolitic limestone . |
| 16 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 17 | Well I agree with that but I want to make a few points first of all , because poll tax was tangled up with this . |
| 18 | In his autobiography , Citrine himself was to look back on this second career , taken up at the age of sixty , as the happiest time of his life , when his creativity and other faculties were exercised to the full . |
| 19 | London 's later partner in the Brompton Park nursery , Henry Wise [ q.v. ] , was another of Rose 's apprentices , whose influence on the design of formal gardens was handed on in this way to the next generation . |
| 20 | Yes , well I do n't particularly limit the area of what I 'm interested , but if someone who was particularly interested in seeing how history was going over in this school , then I 'd be very happy in discussing with them how they might try and find out how successful history teaching was in that school for example . |
| 21 | What the hell was going on with this place ? |
| 22 | erm arguing and er they was going on about this because if Mrs went to a farm and then said that she saw some hens there that did n't look particularly fit erm and said they 'd got to be culled and if the farmer thought otherwise then we got into all sorts of tangles because we knew nothing about poultry . |
| 23 | I mean that 's a , a thing that er I remember seeing a TV documentary and there was this bloke , I du n no if he was from the Terence Higgins Trust , I do n't think so , but erm er anyway he was going on about this , this very thing that there 's often the homophobic imagination er has this sort of slippage between you know , consenting adult activity and if you 're gay , if you 're homosexual then this probably means that you 're also interested in seducing children , you 're also interested in sado-masochistic activity er you 're also interested in , you know , a whole variety of other , you know , things which |
| 24 | It was going on through this song it 's ni , bur bur bur bur bur scratch right across the C D. |
| 25 | Work was going on in this specific area at Harwell , where it was classified secret , and now a leading Soviet was offering to come and tell all ! |
| 26 | It was too soon for the operation to be taken away from Cardiff before he found out just what was going on in this hellish office block . |
| 27 | I was going out with this guy called John Colley whose relations were sort of minor gangsters in London and I went to work for them because they did n't mind my not being English . |
| 28 | was going out of this area to the providers of er of capital , for opportunities within this area we can go to London for example be many bankers there who will be being approached by companies within the northern region , north west region asking them for money to support them in their in their ventures . |
| 29 | I thought Dashwood was going out of this here Bill . |
| 30 | Mum was getting on by this time and her own health was n't excellent , and I moved to Manchester so we could be near the RMCH where they do a vast amount with CF. We hired a retired nurse to act as housekeeper and she did his physio when I was n't there , and between us we managed to keep him going . ’ |