Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , it was the first successful attempt in this genre because it gave its performers an opportunity to reveal their talents as actor-dancers . |
| 2 | There have been moments during the argument in this case when it appeared to be suggested that the court had to do with a grave case involving what is called the right of public meeting . |
| 3 | ‘ There have been moments during the argument in this case when it appeared to be suggested that the court was being confronted with a grave case involving what is called a right of public meeting . |
| 4 | The United States Senate rejected this provision because it thought it would bestow legal rights upon third parties . |
| 5 | The model of responsible party government was born of this experience and it tended to elevate the politics of the moment into a law of nature that has distracted attention from the more fluid aspects of Britain 's political experience . |
| 6 | The government 's announcement this spring that it planned to phase in the seventeen and a half per cent tax over twelve months brought pensioners out onto the streets . |
| 7 | Richmond bureau was prompted into this action when it felt that it was losing advice workers because of the tensions involved in the work and because insufficient support was given to alleviate it . |
| 8 | So I mean it it was it was represented to me er and I felt that there was some logic in it that that this company would not be discussing this deal unless it felt it could make money out of it and that money in the end would have to come out of the local people here . |
| 9 | This borrowed item , no doubt bequeathed by some burly and well-meaning district commissioner , does not possess quite the same significance in this ambience as it had in its original context . |
| 10 | One of America 's largest defense contractors made this discovery when it asked what information its top corporate and operating managers needed to do their jobs . |
| 11 | The public needs to stand up as strongly over this issue as it did over the miners . |
| 12 | Such was the novelty of this circuit that it provoked much debate in the technical press as to its operation . |
| 13 | There was a through-way running the length of this wood but it looked more like a path than a substantial track . |
| 14 | And she knew she did , but it was only during this moment that it had happened , in this moment of revelation . |
| 15 | I felt fear at this moment but it passed and I was calmed in thought when the sensation passed . |
| 16 | But , but , in this cage and it had a little wooden box |
| 17 | The LPU entered this process as it believed a trade union would . |
| 18 | It was during this period that it became the second major party in British politics , and Britain 's leading progressive party . |
| 19 | Tit for Tat won in this climate , and Tit for Two Tats would have won in this climate if it had been submitted . |
| 20 | So , for thirty years Alfred Glynn had preserved this room as it had been when he still believed that the silk counterpane and the eiderdown would be the covers on his marriage bed . |
| 21 | So come yesterday there was people going and all this business and it ended up with just her car and one red one then the red one goes out she goes with the woman they 're outside there two of those bloody King Charles ! |
| 22 | " Private Eye " fell into this trap when it beat off an interim injunction from Robert Maxwell by promising to prove at trial that he had financed Neil Kinnock 's foreign travel in the hope of being awarded a peerage . |
| 23 | Faces in the hall registered distress at this price as it became clear to many of those present that they would be unable to win anything with their limited sources . |
| 24 | Was it really just this morning that it had all happened ? |
| 25 | A very unsubtle reminder of her aggression this morning and it brought Maggie back to life . |
| 26 | Of the film 's religious imagery , he says : ‘ We talked about the Fifty-First psalm ( which is sung by one of the kitchen boys ) ; it does n't give you many clues , but I was reading it again this morning and it started making more sense . |
| 27 | I 'm rather fond of this outfit and it did cost rather a lot of money . |
| 28 | So complete was this victory that it ensured a kind of uneasy peace for nearly three years . |
| 29 | " And she had this baby and it had a birthmark like a cat 's face on its stomach . " |
| 30 | The government announced this week that it planned to send 53 Japanese soldiers there next month , to help prepare for UN-sponsored elections . |