Example sentences of "of [pron] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 2 | One Delhi-wallah of whom this was not true was our unfortunate mali . |
| 3 | But I was worried , and somehow I had inside of me this feeling that something was going to happen . |
| 4 | If I had known what would be required of me this morning I would n't have gone to that birthday celebration last night . ’ |
| 5 | He took a lot more photos of me this morning . |
| 6 | no , no , I , I , I just really want , cos I do n't think there 's any question of me this afternoon ruling on whether you 're right or not on these points , but I just er on second I thoughts I want to have them in mind |
| 7 | Somewhere between the ages of eight and 10 children 's ideas of what they want to draw become much more ambitious ; in particular , they want their pictures to be more visually realistic and for most of them this ambition far outstrips their skill . |
| 8 | The boys are not best pleased — which is a pity because for most of them this is the highlight of their rugby-playing lives . |
| 9 | Managers and engineers could not help but admire the assiduity and skill with which he could wear down his opponents in discussion , but for many of them this approach conflicted with other managerial values . |
| 10 | So so that 's I 'll give you some of them this time |
| 11 | Two of them this time , both carrying holstered pistols . |
| 12 | Not that he wanted any of them this morning . |
| 13 | But this is the largest of them this house . |
| 14 | 15 million people did it in 1985 — will you be one of them this time ? |
| 15 | Can I just remind er members on the er , additional papers that were placed in fron in front of them this morning . |
| 16 | The St Tiggy Winkles Animal Hospital at Haddenham has taken in three of them this month and they 're stumped for an answer . |
| 17 | Since the ban was imposed by Margaret Thatcher , campaigners have argued for the restoration of union rights , and three secret meetings have taken place at the Cabinet Office , the last of them this afternoon ended in breakdown . |
| 18 | Since the ban was imposed by Margaret Thatcher , campaigners have argued for the restoration of union rights , and three secret meetings have taken place at the Cabinet Office , the last of them this afternoon ended in breakdown . |
| 19 | I rushed last night , I did two of my geographies I did one of them this dinner time , and other he did n't ask for my book in ! |
| 20 | Right on one of them this bloke it says he hypnotises them and he goes when I click my fingers you will become my servant and he 's about to click his fingers like that when somebody comes and rescues them . |
| 21 | Plenty of them this year . |
| 22 | And for many of them this would be a dream to , come true . |
| 23 | ‘ Is it anything to do with father making such a fool of himself this afternoon ? ’ asked Tess , frowning . |
| 24 | As in previous years , the Festival will be the launch for the new programmes made for the Black Arts Video Project , three of which this year come from Birmingham and West Midlands based filmmakers . |
| 25 | The competition is being run for five months , of which this is the fourth , so you 've still got two chances to win this holiday of a lifetime . |
| 26 | Probably not in this essay as such , but in that area of Pound 's conversation of which this essay is a distillation , we find the reason — so I believe — why Yeats said admiringly of Landor in 1917 : ‘ He had in his Imaginary Conver - sations reminded us , as it were , that the Venus de Milo is a stone . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Those who blur over that distinction do not understand its crucial importance for the successful handling of a whole series of intractable problems of which this is just , at the moment , the worst . ’ |
| 28 | The whole hotel of which this was the Sanctum sanctorum gave an impression of earlier magnificence now a little dusty and down at heel . |
| 29 | Cooper invented the Western and , so it is claimed , the sea story , as well as creating the ‘ Leatherstocking ’ tales , set in upstate New York , of which this is the best . |
| 30 | It has been pointed out that the only propositions of which this is true are ‘ analytic ’ propositions — those that contain not statements of fact but rules about language . |