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 . |