Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 2 | A monarch who behaved in this way could rely on the support of many of the leading intellectuals of the age , however despotic his power . |
| 3 | Finally many thanks are due to everyone who contributed to this edition . |
| 4 | Finally very many thanks are again due to everyone who contributed to this edition . |
| 5 | We acknowledge the generous financial support of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths and the cooperation of the parents , health professionals , and interpreters who contributed towards this research . |
| 6 | The desire to shelter large sections of the population from military service also strengthened the willingness of most governments to employ foreign mercenaries , who retained throughout this period much of the importance they had possessed since the Renaissance . |
| 7 | I 'm trying to trace a member of our family who moved to this part of London during the war , looking for work . |
| 8 | It was the City banks with mercantile connections , rather than the West End houses used by the landed classes , who moved into this relationship — less surprising than it seems , for , as Joslin pointed out , the country banks had themselves most often grown from country merchant or manufacturing activities . |
| 9 | All at once , I was in a wild fury of rage : I saw , not Nonni , but all the foolish and ignorant people who seemed at this moment to be conspiring together against all the forces of right and reason to poison and destroy the world . |
| 10 | Those who sailed in this week brought the population of Vietnamese in Hong Kong to more than 50,000 . |
| 11 | Clarke ( 24 ) , who suffered from this ailment before , says he is n't unduly worried . |
| 12 | While they all concentrated on paintings , the exhibition ‘ Entartete Bildhauer ’ at the Westfälisches Landesmuseum is exclusively devoted to the sculptors who suffered from this verdict . |
| 13 | I wanted to ensure that foreign visitors who came to this country were also covered by insurance . |
| 14 | We know very little about how the experience of ageing will vary between those who came to this country a-s economic migrants and the indigenous population . |
| 15 | During the recent troubles in India , many of the people who came to this country and who said that they were refugees from oppression by the Indian Government were proposing various forms of armed or violent protest against that Government . |
| 16 | In a combative pre-election speech Gorbachev delivered a blistering attack on conservative thinking and " those who came to this congress hoping to take the party back to the old condition of commands and orders " . |
| 17 | This will represent a saving of £10 for those members who opted for this extension in the past . |
| 18 | Waldendale means the dale of the Welshman , Welsh being a word once used to describe any foreigner , though in this case it probably refers to the last remnants of the Celtic peoples who retreated to this dale in the face of Norse and Anglo-Saxon expansion . |
| 19 | Given the central objective of this category of public interest immunity as ‘ the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force , ’ given the grave public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice on the part of some at least of those who served in the now disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , given the extensive publicity already attaching to the documents here in question following the appellant 's successful appeal , it seems to us nothing short of absurd to suppose that those who co-operated in this investigation — largely other police officers and court officials — will regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses will withhold it , were this court now to release the documents to C.N.L. to enable them to defeat if they can an allegedly corrupt claim in damages . |
| 20 | ‘ This belonged to the gentleman explorer who happened upon this city many years ago , ’ he explained . |
| 21 | If you had observed my father who arrived in this house a week after you did , you will have seen that his house knowledge is perfect and was so almost from the time he set foot in Darlington Hall . ’ |
| 22 | Instead of siding with the bishops who protested at this action , Henry put his weight behind the anti-clerical agitation and agreed to pass legislation reforming the church in a number of relatively minor ways . |
| 23 | Let us pray for all who ha who served on this airfield during the Second World War and the relatives of those who died . |
| 24 | Especially we remember those who served on this airfield and we pray that the peace they fought to obtain may not be lost to us , but as we may live and work to bring it to thy world , that Christ the Prince of Peace may reign in the affairs of men . |
| 25 | One thing 's for sure , the sons and daughters of all those rich Tories who bulldozed through this crackpot curriculum wo n't be hindered in any way . |
| 26 | The first two students who benefited from this scheme were Mary Jones of St. Helens and Leslie Anderson from Aberdeen . |
| 27 | Many of the items on display have been lent by Polish soldiers who settled in this country and their families . |
| 28 | The following squadrons are known to have taken part in this raid , 7 , 15 , 35 , 75 , 101 , 103 , 115 , 156 , 166 , 460 and 622 , and if anyone who flew on this operation with any of the listed squadrons have any details of the raid , I would like to hear from them . |
| 29 | This represents a very significant proportion of the world 's airline capacity , and whatever was the cause of this accident could have substantial repercussions threatening the safety of anyone who flew in this type of aircraft , not to mention the financial implications involved . |
| 30 | There 's only so much that anybody 's brain can handle at any one time so let's just do a little experiment because there was a chap called George Miller an American psychologist who worked on this idea of what is the capacity of the brain , how many bits of information can the brain hold on to at any given time . |