Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] of this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Muslim Palestinian defenders of Beaufort were ignorant of all this , sitting around the walls in silence when I told them of this historical the old tale of fear , treachery and pain . |
| 2 | The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact . |
| 3 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 4 | Ramsey believed none of this . |
| 5 | But when I rejected everything of this sort to set myself to one purpose , my soul was absorbed with love for my Maker . |
| 6 | At school lunches she showed none of this nonsense , nor was it displayed at home when she ate informally in front of the television in the evening . |
| 7 | She informed him of this conclusion , and with his usual calm he accepted it . |
| 8 | Perhaps I sensed something of this . |
| 9 | I availed myself of this service . |
| 10 | Curiously , there were very few who availed themselves of this privilege . |
| 11 | In particular , at the very end of the questionnaire we invited general comments about SSE and one-third of the teachers who responded availed themselves of this opportunity . |
| 12 | And er , I used to believe that plastics was good , before I met er , disillusioned me of this . |
| 13 | I warned you of this ; your conduct is on your own head . |
| 14 | Gustave understood nothing of this . |
| 15 | The others , who knew nothing of this , were turning their heads like three blackbirds . |
| 16 | Christina knew nothing of this decision until she over-heard peter Thomas , the duty manager , chatting to the food and beverage executive later that morning . |
| 17 | For I knew nothing of this six months ago , nor did I want to . |
| 18 | The Vicar was reluctant to accept as he knew nothing of this , but Mr Baker insisted he should accept as was his right . |
| 19 | It is not as if Congress members knew nothing of this . |
| 20 | ( As far as modern women are concerned , an analogous situation must exist in which the demands of civilization — principally incest-avoidance and respect for the paternal authority — represent a recent and indeed onerous imposition on an earlier instinctual nexus which knew nothing of this , indeed which perhaps was the foundation of that submissiveness to male aggressiveness which still seems to underlie the female sexual constitution . |
| 21 | Mr Johns said he knew nothing of this but the next day Grugel again asked for money and became aggressive . |
| 22 | Mr Johns said he knew nothing of this but the next day Grugel again asked for money and became aggressive . |
| 23 | Katherine knew none of this . |
| 24 | But the others saw none of this : they were all in bed . |
| 25 | ( Of course we understood none of this really , we just thought she was fabulous ; when she left us , simply left us , taking only the jewels , we were terrified and had no idea of how to keep things going . |
| 26 | The ancient Indians knew something of this . |
| 27 | After I was born she put on a lot of weight , and although eventually she lost most of it , my birth was seen as to blame for her weight problem , and throughout my childhood she reminded me of this . |
| 28 | He reminded me of this as we sat on the beach watching Ted and Carwyn having their hopes dashed on the Pipeline reef . |
| 29 | She smilingly reminded me of this at an audience six years later . |
| 30 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |