Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No mention of private Bills would be complete without paying tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for New Forest ( Sir P. McNair-Wilson ) for the way in which he chaired the Committee which sought to untangle this web .
2 That famous churchman Arnold of Rugby put a stamp upon independent education which helped to produce this consequence .
3 Fortunately Ruth had some money from her father which covered buying this house
4 Another factor of immense importance was the widespread availability of arms ; but to understand how and why these became available one must first look , as Ho did , at the balance of international forces which had created this moment of opportunity .
5 The symbol of a lost civilization which had walked this way when the cosmos was still young .
6 Once the transactions were over — transactions which had taken this house out of the hands of the Darlington family after two centuries — Mr Farraday let it be known that he would not be taking up immediate residence here , but would spend a further four months concluding matters in the United States .
7 The court held that the Convention did not ‘ supplant the application of the discovery provisions of the Federal Rules over foreign , Hague Convention State nationals , subject to in personam jurisdiction in a United States court ’ , and adopted most of the arguments deployed by earlier courts which had taken this view .
8 O remembered that the line which had accompanied this action was O , intolerable .
9 What seemed to support this theory was that Anthony Foster was said to have been strangled shortly afterwards , thereby tying up all the loose ends and avoiding embarrassment in the future .
10 What had made this miracle possible , in Lugard 's view , was Indirect Rule , which , through its generosity of spirit towards the conquered , had transformed militant antagonism into grateful appreciation .
11 What had brought this change about she hardly knew , but whatever the cause she did not regret the consequence .
12 ‘ Emily 's past the age for a crèche , ’ she told him , wondering what had prompted this digression .
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