Example sentences of "this [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rarely happened in the World Cup , even when a minnow played against a giant . |
| 2 | This eventually led to the initiation of the annual ‘ Puritan ’ Conference in 1950 ( since re-named the ‘ Westminster ’ Conference ) and which continues to this day . |
| 3 | This eventually led to the establishment of the Phillimore Committee , which issued a fairly modest report in 1974,1R and thence to the Contempt of Court Act 1981 . |
| 4 | The process has become so refined that we even had a section called ‘ Oenology ’ , though it must be admitted that this eventually had to be re-named to ‘ Study of Wine . ’ |
| 5 | Again like Crowther , it strongly recommended the raising of the school leaving age to 16 [ this eventually happened in 1972 ] and the provision of a more stimulating and demanding curriculum so that pupils had a wider choice of courses , including some ‘ broadly related to occupational interests ’ , and others concerned with personal and social development , and ‘ imaginative experience through the arts ’ . |
| 6 | This apparently happened to Jim last year . |
| 7 | This only began to be reversed as a trend after 1975 . |
| 8 | I was over the moon — although this only lasted for about a year as I paid a visit with some friends to see the 1991 ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ at Wembley . |
| 9 | This obviously belonged to Brian Summers , the chairman of World Wide Insurance . |
| 10 | All this soon came to an abrupt end . |
| 11 | Fortunately , this soon declined to a more tolerable rate . |
| 12 | He first started Judo 13 years ago at school and this soon developed into tai-boxing and ju-jitsu . |
| 13 | This soon looked like an unobjective decision , as Karpov secured his pawn advantage . |
| 14 | This soon led to criticism of the excessive power of the Chancellor : ‘ The Chancellor 's position has become so strong that his opponents and supporters alike complain about his authoritarian style of leadership [ writing about Adenauer ] … |
| 15 | In 1762 he even secured a royal edict which compelled the clergy to contribute a fifth of their income to charitable purposes , though this soon had to be withdrawn . |
| 16 | But this soon coincided with a clampdown on public expenditure and councils were told they could n't spend as much as they wanted on housing . |
| 17 | The area around and to the north of the capital , Mogadishu , was controlled by the United Somali Congress ( ‘ U.S.C. ’ ) ; but this soon split into two factions , one led by General Aidid and the other by Mr. Ali Mahdi Mohammed . |
| 18 | But the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent development of Soviet society produced an emphasis upon another strand in Marxist thought about the transition to socialism ( one which had not hitherto been given much prominence ) involving the idea of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ; and in the specific conditions prevailing in Russia , which differed entirely from those in Western Europe , this soon evolved in practice into the dictatorship of the Bolshevik party , then the dictatorship of the party 's central committee , and finally the dictatorship of a single individual . |
| 19 | All of this finally resulted in ’ Maus ’ , his book-length comic strip version of the Holocaust in which pigs stand in for Nazis and mice for Jews . |
| 20 | This generally resulted in processes by which companies tried |
| 21 | This somehow led to a discussion on local football and I discovered that there were eleven fit men and true down at the Kingdom Hall . |
| 22 | all it was was a box really , a box which you could get off a , a , a machine and dump it on the ground , erm the idea came from , from er I think dustcarts really , where , where you could sort of tip them up and , and they 'd empty , and that , that was this early thought on it er |
| 23 | This usually happened after lunch on the day following their arrival . |
| 24 | To this More replied in a confutation of 500,000 words in which Tyndale was no longer described simply as a heretic but as ‘ a beast ’ discharging ‘ a filthy form of blasphemies out of his beastly brutish mouth , a shameful , shameless , unreasonable , railing ribald ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ If this ever came to court it would n't look good for an older woman to be seen enticing a young boy into marriage — ’ |
| 26 | Whether this ever happened without dangerous cause , whether it often happened , what it signified , of all this she had no idea . |
| 27 | He was so small and weak that illness was to be expected , but this still came as a shock to Tess . |
| 28 | This gradually lessened through the spring and disappeared completely in the summer . |
| 29 | Eventually , in November 1944 , a plug of incandescent lava poked up through the middle of the elevated dome , and this gradually rose during the course of the next year until it was over a hundred metres above the top of the dome , and nearly 300 metres above normal ground level . |
| 30 | This always had to be done by another agency so that British government became ‘ a rich Byzantine structure ’ of boards , local authorities , commissions and joint committees . |