Example sentences of "[coord] it was [prep] this that " in BNC.
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| 1 | After one such day , on the journey back , he and his brother Ifor ended up in a nasty fight with several English supporters and it was to this that he traced the beginning of his lifelong , terribly painful and ultimately crushing spinal problems . |
| 2 | Mrs Henry embarked on a course in herbal medicine and it was during this that she heard about the Gerson therapy . |
| 3 | To the east of the Abbey precinct , the manor of Abbot 's Barton stretched for nearly three miles towards Upton St Leonards , and it was through this that the waterways and mills were constructed . |
| 4 | And it was into this that Benedict was dragged , through no fault of his own , poor boy ! ’ |
| 5 | In the audience was Paul Palmer , a geophysicist , and it was from this that Jones became involved with solid state fusion and set out on the road that led to his interactions with Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 6 | Its weight could be further reduced by removing the cooling jacket , and it was like this that the Lewis gun was used as a hand-directed weapon on Allied aircraft . |