Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know when this story started but it certainly happened a long time ago . |
| 2 | One investigation aimed at characterisation of this response showed that it differs in the various colonic segments , with the proximal ones displaying brisk and less sustained contractile activity than the distal ones . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the nonresonant nature of the nonlinearity in this experiment meant that it had to compete with other nonlinear processes . |
| 4 | ‘ There are 1,001 possibilities as to why this accident happened and it would be pure speculation to say at this stage what could have caused it . |
| 5 | as if to confirm her pedestrian turn of mind , Miss Logan at this point revealed that it had been a matter of curiosity to her since childhood how the Ark had succeeded in resting upon the top of a mountain . |
| 6 | A correspondent knows of one witness to the February 1992 sighting in Mrs Topliff 's house , and this person stated that it was merely a large domestic cat . |
| 7 | Lebanon , which had accepted 66 Palestinian deportees since the start of the intifada in 1987 , on this occasion announced that it would refuse to co-operate . |
| 8 | Today claimed malicious falsehood was n't an applicable action but the country 's number two judge vice chancellor Sir Donald Nicholls this morning said that it was . |
| 9 | The Malaysian government this month announced that it has dropped a scheme to flood the country 's oldest and largest national park , Taman Negara by damming the Tembeling river . |
| 10 | Airlift Book Company this week announced that it had been appointed exclusive UK distributor for Shambhala Publications , taking over from Rider Books ( part of Random House ) on 1st April . |
| 11 | The directors of this project found that it was not enough simply to do what is usually done when there is a desire to maximize the performance of paraprofessionals , that is , to provide them with appropriate training . |