Example sentences of "this [noun] it [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this writer it began when , shortly after stepping off the plane in Johannesburg , it became apparent that a few stitches sustained by the All Black winger Terry Wright in a training accident was deemed as worthy a front page news story as the continuous blood-letting in the Natal townships between rival ANC and Inkatha factions . |
| 2 | On the news this morning it said that over eight hundred kids turned up ! ’ |
| 3 | To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation . |
| 4 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |
| 5 | In January this year it emerged that the sometime property dealer and owner of the Mountain Tortoise Gallery in Tokyo was running late on payment to Sotheby 's for a Picasso and a de Kooning , both of which he had bought at auctions in New York the previous November . |
| 6 | But this time it seemed that the dream would never end . |