Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before it got to this stage there would undoubtedly have been letters flying between the two . |
| 2 | Perhaps we , I mean , then British Section said to us on this erm and I 'd s , already said I think er by the time it got to this stage of conversation that we were without a prisoner at the moment , but , but awaiting one , and he said well , that would ex , that would explain it because er , until we initiate it , British Section initiates it you wo n't get another prisoner , they 're waiting for conformation from R E S |
| 3 | The growth of this industry was the most fundamental change in the country 's economy in the later Middle Ages ; where England had previously relied for its exports largely on the export of raw wool for the more advanced industrial economies of the Low Countries and Italy , it became in this period a manufacturing nation in its own right , and cloth replaced wool as its main resource in international trade . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , that 's what it recommended in this angling magazine I was reading . |
| 5 | If you are not feeling as well as you did at the beginning of the week , go back to the Stage I diet for two or three days ; your weight should fall again if it rose during this week . |
| 6 | The fact that he wore a hat with a daffodil in it helped in this respect , he felt . |
| 7 | The Wilson Committee itself summarised the evidence it received on this issue as follows : |
| 8 | ‘ I said when we arrived two weeks ago that by the time it came to this Test you would have to give us a 50–50 chance because this is a one-off game , not part of a Test series . |
| 9 | So our involvement was for it to be presented to us before it came to this meeting . |
| 10 | ‘ Whatever it was , it came from this book . |
| 11 | It seemed on this occasion she had met her match . |
| 12 | In any case it seemed at this point that the war might be lost , and only a month after finishing the poem he was expressing to Martin Browne grave misgivings about the worth and value of his poetic activities , which often appeared to be futile . |
| 13 | The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not saying it happened on this occasion , but it is not unknown for a private company to take a loss on government contracts to get a foot in the door . ’ |
| 15 | It happened in this way . |
| 16 | It happened in this manner . |
| 17 | it 's a big , in this town it 's kept quiet , it happened on Monday night of course there 's gon na be a bloody big shake up in Lancashire police , it happened in this town there er , er , er a robbery at a bungalow where an old lady were |
| 18 | And he said well just get yourself home and tell your father that I want it paid for this time because I only replaced that glass last week , which he had |
| 19 | However , it retreated from this position , partly because it feared strong adverse reaction particularly from its political Right , and also because it had seriously underestimated the number of Arabs in Gaza , at 100,000–150,000 when it was nearer 280,000 . |
| 20 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 21 | The free edge of the epidermis has clearly moved in over the marked wound mesenchyme , leaving less than 10% of it exposed by this stage . |
| 22 | It began in this fashion . |
| 23 | Well that , I could n't believe it when it fell over this morning . |
| 24 | You knew when it was supposed to leave Kirkwall and it went past this island or that one but |
| 25 | But he had been very kind to her the past few weeks , and she knew he was right , that the showing would be a fiasco if it went on this way . |
| 26 | We better get it cleared before this lot |
| 27 | Because usually this morning we usually have video and it feeled like this morning all the time . |
| 28 | While acknowledging that there were some schools which had built up a good range of resources and had successfully integrated their school library with the teaching and learning taking place in the school , it appeared at this time that many demonstrated one or all of the following basic problems : |
| 29 | It appeared in this spelling in 1698 in Worcestershire , although the form Keasse was used in Gloucestershire in 1660 , and Keisse in the same county in 1583 . |
| 30 | However , for all the heat generated by the scandal , it appeared from this week 's developments that the opposition is still far from identifying the ‘ smoking bank account ’ that would ruin Mr Gandhi 's career . |