Example sentences of "this [vb past] [pers pn] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment . |
| 2 | This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment . |
| 3 | This made it an easy room to clean , no one would want to come in while she was working . |
| 4 | This gave him an endless shopping list of radical causes which had no apparent connection , but were bound together by the radical-chic lifestyle of their supporters . |
| 5 | This gave him an invaluable insight into the boardroom and helped to bridge the gap between financial controller and finance director . |
| 6 | This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire . |