Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] was [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Looking at it now , I realise it was from this point that Diana began putting herself behind Relate and Aids charities . |
| 2 | Did you know what was on this morning ? |
| 3 | The pathologist had said it was at this stage impossible to give an opinion but the report also said the police were treating the case as murder . |
| 4 | The only time he 's ever had one was at this kid 's party Fran , Franny someone , he 's actually a bloke ! |
| 5 | That admin course is fantastic , a re er you know I was in this r building yesterday , and I can tell you , the attendance is good I mean they have to have a real reason before they do n't come . |
| 6 | I suppose it was around this period that our Investigation Department began to involve the cutters in some of their more interesting operations . |
| 7 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew she was on this wavelength , ’ Elinor said excitedly , ‘ I believed her right from the start . ’ |
| 9 | Why do you think it was in this region , rather than in some other part of the world , that an aluminium smelter and a paper pulp mill , shown on maps K and L , were closed when world demand decreased recently ? |
| 10 | I think it was about this time ( I ca n't tell exactly because my diary makes no reference at any point to the practice ) that I discovered purging . |
| 11 | I think it was on this morning yeah but it 's erm |
| 12 | well er a young lad I think it was for this , you know the series er for , pastimes , pastimes pursuit , you know er fishing and er |
| 13 | Dana was steadily centred right in the middle of Libra , and so could be regarded as a perfectly balanced human being , with a true equivalence of male and female , physical and intellectual , animal and spiritual , and I think it was from this delicate balance , never upset , that his magnetic force of personality derived . |
| 14 | Yeah , I think it was in this one . |
| 15 | I wish it was like this every day ! |
| 16 | Why had no one said it was like this ? |