Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the 1930s , Ernest Bevin was the dominant figure on this body as he was at Labour Party conferences , shaping Labour 's domestic and foreign policy . |
| 2 | Emlyn Williams , who stayed with them in this period while he was on a tour with his Charles Dickens readings , describes scenes of domestic industry and felicity . |
| 3 | He did n't want to think about anything except this nonsense until he was with his mother . |
| 4 | Finally , speaking in a low voice , the boy said : ‘ There 's something you do n't know : dad told me this morning that he was in bed when I got home last night . ’ |
| 5 | No , not at the min not at the min I have n't erm , there was one shoved through just this morning and I was on the phone I just picked it up and I shoved it on the |
| 6 | Hill-Wood remains philosphical about the club 's disappointing run — ‘ you have good spells and bad spells ’ — and is certainly more optimistic about the club 's chances of winning major honours this season than he was at a similar stage last year . |
| 7 | ‘ Most important is to have the physical and mental strength to be as successful at the end of this season as I was at the beginning of 1990 . |
| 8 | I want to end by saying that we need now to f go over this hurdle of liberation make sure that the vast majority of black South Africans who are deeply angry and I saw this anger because I was in South Africa when Chris was assassinated and this anger was turning into rage and the country was on a knife edge it could have blown up , the country would have burned had it not been for the diplomatic achievement of , of enormous stature by Nelson Mandela when he addressed the whole nation and in a sense seized power informally from white and black and the country managed to survive that but if that anger turns into rage again then the country could burn and I do n't say this to be dramatic but just to warn that in those moments when the media and so on do n't explain the situation well do n't forget our people because they have had to cope with this situation . |
| 9 | Somehow he always had this feeling when he was with Mick . |
| 10 | Perhaps His seal of approval was never quite so firmly over this operation as it was over the contras ; perhaps that was why he needed to be importuned . |
| 11 | So he sold it on to a this kid and it was up Baxters |
| 12 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 13 | ‘ Anders has achieved so many of his goals this year that I was on Jamie 's side . |
| 14 | Does he accept that not only that youth 's family but many other people have a total lack of comprehension as to how someone could be hanged in this country when he was in police custody when the gun was fired and the unfortunate police officer was killed by another person ? |
| 15 | So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not . |
| 16 | And they were buying this house and it was worth something like I do n't know , they were , they 'd got a twenty five grand mortgage . |
| 17 | But there was a house on this repossession and it was sort of like just a sort of young couple and they 'd bought this house and it was like a two bedroom house and they 'd done up beautiful . |