Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gibson was joined in this research by E. W. Fawcett [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | We sang , a little earlier on , a song of er Wesley 's and back those two hundred and twenty , two hundred and thirty years ago , when Wesley was preaching in this country and in America , there was another preacher every bit as famous then , perhaps not quite so famous today , preacher by the name of George Whitfield and George Whitfield , he went around and he was preaching , and he preached on this , this text , John er , i in John three , you must be born again ! |
| 3 | But the more precise use of the word ‘ State , ’ the use to be expected in a legal context , and the one which I am quite satisfied … was intended in this statute , is to denote the organs of government of a national community . |
| 4 | The frequency of peristalsis in the duodenum was calculated from this sequence at 14 contractions per minute . |
| 5 | The coeficient of variation ( SD ( 100% ) /mean ) was calculated from this variance component model for each variable of the model . |
| 6 | It was stripped of this status when its majority Tatar population was deported to Central Asia , accused of having collaborated during the Second World War with the Nazi German occupiers . |
| 7 | St. Peter 's Hospital was designated under this scheme . |
| 8 | His original appeal against conviction , pursuant to section 1 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 , was dismissed by this court on 14 October 1988 . |
| 9 | Although achieved briefly , it was not until the closure of the street routes in the early Sixties , that the fleet was centralised on this depot . |
| 10 | On May 3 it had been reported that Sawyer 's interim government , appointed on April 19 , was ready to resign , apparently as a preliminary to offering the NPFL a power-sharing arrangement ; no more was heard of this proposal , however . |
| 11 | Nothing further was heard of this move . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's high time that the voice of the British people was heard in this House , ’ he said . |
| 13 | In 1275 he surrendered custody of Kilgerran but retained Abergavenny till 1281 and was embroiled during this period in a number of disputes with the tenants of the honour . |
| 14 | A not insignificant push was given to this development with the decline in morale among expatriate workers in the oil industry following the assassination of a senior oil-company secondee near Ahwaz late in 1978 . |
| 15 | A restrictive interpretation was given to this expression in R & B Customs Brokers Ltd v UDT Finance Ltd [ 1988 ] 1 All ER 847 where the Court of Appeal held that a purchase is only in the course of business if ( a ) it is integral to the business or ( b ) there is some degree of regularity of similar transactions ( see also Peter Symons & Co v Cook ( 1981 ) 131 NLJ 758 ; Rasbora Ltd v JCL Marine Ltd [ 1977 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 645 ) . |
| 16 | It 's ridiculous to suggest that this or any other police force ignores bomb warnings.The IRA 's claim that a warning was given in this case is just not true . |
| 17 | And approval for this was given by this Committee last October . |
| 18 | Yeah he was to go through this morning to get my project , no say me in trouble , I 'm in deep , I do n't know , ooh er , I ca n't see so how we all today ? |
| 19 | Yeah he was to go through this morning to get my project , no say me in trouble , I 'm in deep , I do n't know , ooh er , I ca n't see so how we all today ? |
| 20 | I am the first human being he has seen since he was posted to this backwater . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman will see that the letter says : ’ In the interests of all parties ’ , the soldier ’ was posted following this incident . |
| 22 | In the secondary school this was typified by this comment ( from a non-artist ) : |
| 23 | Between 1532 and 1534 , the passing of each individual piece of legislation was closely followed by the appearance of official government propaganda justifying it and anticipating the next move , a fact that suggests that a coherent policy was unfolding by this stage . |
| 24 | IT WAS in the early afternoon when information was received at this desk about the plane . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , on 10 May 1991 , the appellant 's case was referred to this court by the Home Secretary . |
| 26 | He could not tell why he was fascinated with this girl . |
| 27 | Creggan was fascinated by this thought and wanted Kraal to tell him more about this place . |
| 28 | No , but I was fascinated by this man because he wanted above all things for us to record the Bartók Music for Strings , Percussion , and Celesta . |
| 29 | A paralysed Nigerian man , who was flown to this country for life saving treatment , has left the National Health Service with bills totalling almost sixty thousand pounds . |
| 30 | The visitors ' centre also describes the pride of the Spanish Armada , the galleon Girona , which was wrecked off this coast in 1588 with the loss of over 1,000 lives . |