Example sentences of "this [noun] [vb past] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So did is an anaphoric verb phrase ; that is to say , its referential properties operate not directly , but indirectly , through a previously mentioned verb phrase , in this case expired last Thursday , which must be re-applied , this time with John as subject . |
| 2 | Each year the local fete has a different theme and this photograph won second prize at the village show some weeks later . |
| 3 | At this point in the debate a public bunfight has arisen between , on the one hand the authors of the Coopers & Lybrand report on Tuesday that warned of a ‘ fiscal reality gap ’ and a public sector borrowing requirement soaring way above Tory and Labour projections ( about which this column warned last week ) and those who believe this takes too gloomy a view of prospects . |
| 4 | Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February . |
| 5 | She was aware that this process exposed first her buttocks and then her breasts , fleetingly , to Crowe , who had seen them and more than seen them , already , but not in circumstances either of them , she took it , cared to remember . |
| 6 | This haul exceeded last season 's total in one match alone . |
| 7 | SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 'S dreams of European glory this season ended last night — sunk by a German sub . |
| 8 | I am not impressed by this as a reason for setting aside this demand served last August . |
| 9 | Scarlet , left alone in the house , looked at the breakfast table in horrified disgust : this feeling had first started some time before — she could n't remember when — as boredom . |
| 10 | There was a throbbing urgency developing in the way they touched , a desperation in their kisses ; the yearning for fulfilment that had been growing in her since this man had first taken her was now a scream deep inside her , aching for him , crying for him , sobbing for him . |
| 11 | ‘ Does anybody know , ’ he says , ‘ how many different products this firm made last year ? ’ |
| 12 | This sum had first been mentioned in January 1991 as the amount necessary to fund the absorption of Soviet immigrants in Israel , and in February a smaller US loan guarantee to fund the housing of immigrants had only been approved after the Israeli authorities had undertaken not to use the funds in the occupied territories [ see p. 38023-24 ] . |