Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CAMBODIA has been the main subject of my mailbag this week . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been to fifteen funerals of my friends this year . |
| 3 | You wo n't have the pleasure of my company this evening . |
| 4 | Foxgloves form the foreground of my design this month , with sunflowers reaching up to the flocks of birds circling in the sky , above the cottage rooftops . |
| 5 | I 'm captain of my club this year right ? |
| 6 | Now , you may wonder , along with one of my guests this week , what the point is of having Punch lunches if their proceedings remain private , but we like it that way and , besides , it means that we get some seriously filthy gossip . |
| 7 | Oh he 's just eaten my toast out of my hand this dog ! |
| 8 | ‘ I 've got through my grant plus £500 of my savings this term , ’ bragged Chris Singh , a first-year communications and media student with no regrets . |
| 9 | Viewers of day-time television on Channel 4 in the Thames region were pinned to the backs of their sofas this May by Hodder & Stoughton 's new marketing ploy — a television advert using author Hilary Norman to promote her works and invite direct responses from viewers . |
| 10 | Also the sporting community in South Africa is now uncomfortably aware that their cricketing authorities have asked far too much of their players this year . |
| 11 | Stuart had been more aware of their existence this year , walking up to lectures at the university , going through the Grassmarket or the gardens , seeing drab figures squatting on the stone steps , or standing outside the hotel in the evening by the vents from the kitchen where the steam formed vapour clouds and it was possible to inhale the smell of food with the intensity of a drug . |
| 12 | THREE nuns from Darlington Carmel Convent follow in the footsteps of their predecessors this month when they travel to South Africa to set up the country 's first multi-racial convent . |
| 13 | AC Milan , European Cup winners in 1989 and 1990 , underlined the strength of their challenge this season with a 4–0 win over Slovan Bratislava of Czechoslovakia for a 5–0 aggregate triumph . |
| 14 | Letts , of course , has moved in the other direction , into book publishing ( Blackwells ' Art & Poster Shop has seen a 500% increase in turnover of sales of their books this year , John Harvey-Jones please note ) , but it is well worth stocking Letts ' unbeatable range of the more traditional diaries for which it is so rightly famous . |
| 15 | At the end of its journey this energy is converted into heat , into further movement or deformation of the bodies in collision . |
| 16 | Last year , it managed to raise £150 million , while the sale of its hotels this year should raise a further £100 million . |
| 17 | To at least some of its attackers this pattern must be intimidating and its value is that it may allow the cobra to repel its enemy without resorting to the use of its precious venom . |
| 18 | By the end of its life this prototype was controlling over 11,000 software modules , organised into some 500 packages . |
| 19 | The Nikkei index of share prices plunged by 3½ p.c. on both Tuesday and Wednesday , and whatever happened in the early hours of this morning , the index has lost nearly a quarter of its value this year and more than halved from its peak . |
| 20 | As part of its programme this year , the National Gallery has organised Poetry and Painting . |
| 21 | Sure enough , Lewis Luther , or whoever , turned up in full Airborne rig — I was pretty sure it was the same bike and I made a note of its number this time — and they did the business as they had at Holborn . |
| 22 | A very unsubtle reminder of her aggression this morning and it brought Maggie back to life . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course Prince has got some very nice publicity by saying people who had tickets for Blenheim Palace can go to one of his concerts this June . ’ |
| 24 | To Cnut and some of his contemporaries this world still mattered , and evidence of this has been found where it might have been least expected . |
| 25 | I wrote to Mr. Desmond Ingard as we arranged , and I met him and another member of his board this morning . |
| 26 | He fell three short of his century this time , and once again no one else got out of the twenties , but 221 still proved too much for England . |
| 27 | But a reissue of his work this week has been less well received . |
| 28 | THE East Lancashire Railway know exactly what present they want Santa to winch off the back of his low-loader this Christmas . |
| 29 | I was disappointed that the Home Secretary spent so much of his time this afternoon outlining a few examples of asylum seekers who have been proved to be lying . |
| 30 | ‘ Anders has achieved so many of his goals this year that I was on Jamie 's side . |