Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | For weeks the newspapers had been full of stories about it , with , over and over again , people describing how well they lived in this country , how much they loved their homeland , how they did everything to strengthen East German socialism — as if there were not several thousand people leaving the country in a panic at the time . |
2 | They debated unhappily , reluctant to commit themselves to an opinion , until John Prophet suggested sadly that in the circumstances it might be well to consult the archbishop of Canterbury , and in some relief they agreed on this course , and carried their problem that same afternoon to Lambeth ; where Thomas Arundel , on the force of whose word and influence they could rely , advised them , in consideration of the desperate need , to issue the required letters patent , and he would be responsible for defending their action to the king , should it need any defence . |
3 | They put up a prize at the awards ceremony they 're prepared to do all the art work for nothing or at cost price for the awards ceremony they laid on this evening for us now if three people turn up at their evening they gon na say as we putting our money in the right organisation |
4 | Forty-nine houses they wasted in this way . |
5 | Like countless adverts for soap powder , shampoo , tropical fruit drinks , deodorants , which had been absorbed into her memory during hours of television watching , the world they inhabited in this fantasy was innocent and carefree , a garden of Eden before the Fall . |
6 | When they moved into this house in January 1945 Edie began writing the first of two consecutive five-year diaries . |
7 | Ron Todd , general secretary of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said they found in this year 's dock strike that some judges had changed little since the days of the Tolpuddle Martyrs or Taff Vale . |
8 | Tories opposed the new credit system set up in the 1690s not because they objected to this type of economic enterprise , but because the benefits to be accrued from it largely passed them by . |
9 | The Inland Revenue Technical Division were asked in correspondence whether they adhered to this view where the income in question was paid to a beneficiary who was neither resident nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom or , alternatively , where foreign source income was concerned , was paid outside the United Kingdom to a beneficiary who was not domiciled in the United Kingdom . |
10 | Although as yet their role was peripheral , from the point of view of Russia 's subsequent history the new ideology and forms of organization which they adopted in this period merit close attention . |
11 | And they added to this evidence from contemporary institutions which were ‘ how we have always done things ’ . |
12 | The other is that they were Christians but they received at this point more of the Holy Spirit , they were filled with the Spirit ‘ as at the beginning . ’ |
13 | Merseyside members of the 1st Army Associaton take pride in the part they played in this achievement and in remembering present comrades and those gallant friends who fell in the conflict . |
14 | ‘ Stephen , ’ Anna asked quietly , ‘ did you go to see Sarah and Hassan in Australia , the night before they came to this country ? ’ |
15 | In the nineteen twenties water workers were laying a pipe when they came across this skeleton . |
16 | It they suffered in this way , they had to be sprayed with fresh water . |
17 | They suffered from this limitation of enterprise in times of depression . |
18 | The public silence was broken early in 1987 by Marxism Today , who can seldom resist a bandwagon , even if they often fall under the wheels in the process ; and the particular bandwagon they joined on this occasion was the one about what the Tories had labelled ‘ Loony Left ’ councils . |
19 | Driven on by wind and tide they raced through this passage and into a wide lake . |
20 | On the whole , they had either been through the English education system and had therefore a good command of English and a limited domestic register in their other languages , or they had been educated abroad and learnt their English as adults when they arrived in this country . |
21 | Programmes likely to produce such action ought , rather , to be spotted within the BBC in advance and either adjusted suitably or else supported by the Governors in such a way that the politicians would be quietly told , in effect , that if they wished to object they risked on this occasion a larger row than they might want . |
22 | " Where would a young man and woman go — assuming they landed in this city with little money and no contacts . " |
23 | They constructed in this way true arches with radiating voussoirs , but a controversy exists as to whether the European origins here are Etruscan or Roman , as Etruscan examples all date from the later period of the third century B.C. onwards when Roman supremacy over the Etruscans was being established . |
24 | Why were n't they exchanged in this case ? |
25 | Under Milner 's patronage , they founded for this purpose the Round Table movement , with branches in each of the dominions and a journal published in London . |
26 | During the next half hour they worked in this way , and when the empty cases and the bed covers were at last placed on the cart , Aggie locked the door , then hesitated for a moment , wondering what to do with the key . |
27 | They debouched from this second strait into a broad body of water which stretched as far as the eye could see toward the setting sun … |
28 | Last Saturday , they lost to this goal at home to lowly Doncaster and then won 2-0 at Halifax on Wednesday . |
29 | Last Saturday , they lost to this goal at home to lowly Doncaster and then won 2-0 at Halifax on Wednesday . |
30 | Lot nineteen sixty one , an option to purchase your honour for three hundred and eighty five which at that time was at a rate of nine hundred pounds a year and they went to this friend of the firm of solicitors and there of the document which doubly signed and was dated March twenty four nineteen sixty one but my consideration one pounds penny by thereby granted to for the purchasing of . |