Example sentences of "this [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This made him the ideal choice to fly this naval fighter . |
| 2 | This made him the intellectual heir of John Hunter , whose Essays and Observations he published with due filial piety in 1861 . |
| 3 | Some would say this made him the ideal publisher of a newspaper . |
| 4 | ‘ This made us the second most successful regional morning in the UK and one of only a handful of papers to increase annual sales . |
| 5 | This cost them the lead , and though they recovered well they could n't stop a second Risley boat , crewed by husband and wife team and , slipping through to take the chequered flag after five circuits . |
| 6 | The Autocrat , the chauffeur , the bodyguard : this showed them the gulf , the magical distance . |
| 7 | Er , and as well as the erm , staff reduction initiatives er , staff reduction initiatives that this showed you the savings er , in the year . |
| 8 | This gave her the opportunity to bleat even more madly , puffing noisily between bleats to prove how sorely she was being tried . |
| 9 | This gave her the entrée into many whispering galleries of politics and the drawing-rooms if not the corridors of power . |
| 10 | This gave me the opportunity of using homoeopathy in a general practice setting , while at the same time dealing with more chronic cases at the hospital where we had a consultant gynaecologist , an ENT surgeon and a consultant general surgeon , each operating once a week . |
| 11 | also , I was able to work at the painting knowing I could obliterate any unwanted areas ; this gave me the freedom I needed . |
| 12 | This gave me the chance to see many different military aircraft . |
| 13 | At 19 miles I was greeted by some close friends from college and again this gave me the extra energy I needed . |
| 14 | This gave him the opportunity to study Ballet , Pas de Deux , Repertoire , History of Ballet , Stagecraft and Lighting , and Ballet Music . |
| 15 | This gave him the idea of developing a method of switching on the fountain automatically , every time the pond was approached by a predator : easily achieved by adapting a passive infra-red detector . |
| 16 | All this gave him the confidence to state clearly what America 's interests were . |
| 17 | This gave them the key to predicting both the location and approximate intensity of the earthquakes , with a delay of between 7 and 11 hours from the prediction to the event . |
| 18 | This gave them the chance to sign against experiments with animals in the development of such products as perfumes . |
| 19 | ‘ Some of the lads had been feeling it and this gave them the chance to pay some of the bills that had been piling up . |
| 20 | We 'd been heavily blitzed and this gave us the opportunity to think big and boldly and to think philosophically . |
| 21 | This gave us the chance to offer a comprehensive service and also to develop FPC in its own market . ’ |
| 22 | This earned him the unusual distinction of being elected to a fellowship of the society at the age of twenty-five ( 1852 ) . |