Example sentences of "[vb past] this [noun sg] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government announced this week that it planned to send 53 Japanese soldiers there next month , to help prepare for UN-sponsored elections . |
| 2 | One of America 's largest defense contractors made this discovery when it asked what information its top corporate and operating managers needed to do their jobs . |
| 3 | The LPU entered this process as it believed a trade union would . |
| 4 | Interviews with other staff reinforced this impression and it seemed that in many departments the self-appraisal did not receive much considered attention . |
| 5 | And I used this line but it did n't sound so effective because I was sitting on a bicycle . |
| 6 | The United States Senate rejected this provision because it thought it would bestow legal rights upon third parties . |
| 7 | The TUC ignored this assumption when it denied that the marriage bar was a sex issue , insisting that it was an employment question , caused entirely by the pressures arising from male unemployment . |
| 8 | The pro-Palestinian faction of the National Front expressed this view when it asserted that Zionism was an empire ‘ which menaces the whole world ’ ; Zionism was ‘ an iceberg of hidden power of which the bandit state of Israel is only the cruel tip … |
| 9 | They chose this area because it reminded them of the Alps and afforded them the chance to continue with their much loved skiing . |
| 10 | The thing I remember about him as an engineer was that we used to get these forms that told you each week who you were going to be working on , what the line-up was , and I saw this thing and it said David Bowie , Studio Two . |
| 11 | This bomb came through and whacked this barrel and it took the side of his head away and dragged him to the end of the ship . ’ |
| 12 | " And she had this baby and it had a birthmark like a cat 's face on its stomach . " |
| 13 | The Kabul government said this week that it believed Pakistan intended to supply the guerrillas with chemical weapons for use in the Jalalabad battle . |