Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new subject of International Relations must find the best ways of making leaders aware of the dysfunctional nature of war , or , if it failed in this , appeal directly to the populations concerned . |
| 2 | ‘ Before it got to this stage there would undoubtedly have been letters flying between the two . |
| 3 | Perhaps we , I mean , then British Section said to us on this erm and I 'd s , already said I think er by the time it got to this stage of conversation that we were without a prisoner at the moment , but , but awaiting one , and he said well , that would ex , that would explain it because er , until we initiate it , British Section initiates it you wo n't get another prisoner , they 're waiting for conformation from R E S |
| 4 | The growth of this industry was the most fundamental change in the country 's economy in the later Middle Ages ; where England had previously relied for its exports largely on the export of raw wool for the more advanced industrial economies of the Low Countries and Italy , it became in this period a manufacturing nation in its own right , and cloth replaced wool as its main resource in international trade . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , that 's what it recommended in this angling magazine I was reading . |
| 6 | If you are not feeling as well as you did at the beginning of the week , go back to the Stage I diet for two or three days ; your weight should fall again if it rose during this week . |
| 7 | The fact that he wore a hat with a daffodil in it helped in this respect , he felt . |
| 8 | The Wilson Committee itself summarised the evidence it received on this issue as follows : |
| 9 | If you thought chess was a slow , perhaps even dull game , then you 've never seen it played like this . |
| 10 | He did see himself very much as a responsible figure as far as other people 's well being was concerned when it came to this , and this was probably based on the fact that his step-brother , Terry , by his mother 's previous marriage , was classified as schizophrenic , a problem which David felt could be hereditary . ’ |
| 11 | That it came to this shows how involved Priestley was in the religious disputes and politics of his day . |
| 12 | ‘ I said when we arrived two weeks ago that by the time it came to this Test you would have to give us a 50–50 chance because this is a one-off game , not part of a Test series . |
| 13 | It meant a three-horse jump-off of the riders on four faults and , when it came to this , Whitaker had no problems going clear with his own Everest Lifestyle to leave Mark Armstrong , Friday night 's Grand Prix winner , as runner-up with Rockall . |
| 14 | So our involvement was for it to be presented to us before it came to this meeting . |
| 15 | ‘ Whatever it was , it came from this book . |
| 16 | It seemed on this occasion she had met her match . |
| 17 | In any case it seemed at this point that the war might be lost , and only a month after finishing the poem he was expressing to Martin Browne grave misgivings about the worth and value of his poetic activities , which often appeared to be futile . |
| 18 | The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) . |
| 19 | But it 's erm often photographed a I 've do n't recall seeing it photographed from this actual point . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not saying it happened on this occasion , but it is not unknown for a private company to take a loss on government contracts to get a foot in the door . ’ |
| 21 | I was never much good at golf , and lacked patience and coordination ; but I once caught a pound trout on a Dunlop 65 golf-ball , and it happened like this . |
| 22 | It happened like this . |
| 23 | It happened like this : last Saturday , after the farewell party at Nanking University , I came back to the hotel , and packed my things ready to leave for Shanghai , then about 10.30 I started to feel sick , and it got worse and worse and went on and on until I had to wake up Comrade Wu at about 3.30 and ask her to get a doctor . |
| 24 | It happened in this way . |
| 25 | It happened in this manner . |
| 26 | it 's a big , in this town it 's kept quiet , it happened on Monday night of course there 's gon na be a bloody big shake up in Lancashire police , it happened in this town there er , er , er a robbery at a bungalow where an old lady were |
| 27 | And he said well just get yourself home and tell your father that I want it paid for this time because I only replaced that glass last week , which he had |
| 28 | However , it retreated from this position , partly because it feared strong adverse reaction particularly from its political Right , and also because it had seriously underestimated the number of Arabs in Gaza , at 100,000–150,000 when it was nearer 280,000 . |
| 29 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 30 | Working from a basis not impossibly different from a very great many comprehensive schools in the UK , it achieved by this single-minded disposition of resources and energy an organization of support for teacher and pupil alike . |