Example sentences of "of [pron] [v-ing] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No England team have ever gone beyond the last eight in a World Cup played abroad , and the significance of their seeding this time will only become clear after tomorrow 's draw . |
| 2 | No England team have ever gone beyond the last eight in a World Cup played abroad , and the significance of their seeding this time will only become clear after tomorrow 's draw . |
| 3 | I hope that some of you reading this book will find yourself reflected in the images here . |
| 4 | All of you reading this book know how to think . |
| 5 | As Jenny Randles says in Abduction ( according to Mr Marr , the only really reliable guide to the spacenapping phenomenon ) , ‘ Of course I am making no assumptions about what it means to have been abducted [ by aliens ] , but if some researchers are correct many of you reading this book might have undergone an abduction experience without consciously realizing it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have been fascinated by the IBM Environment for the past 20 years and I am only too pleased to unravel its complexities to those of you attending this seminar . |
| 7 | They did n't like the idea of her taking this trip . |
| 8 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 9 | At the time Pete was fifty , making the challenge of his biking this wilderness more meaningful than my personal quest . |
| 10 | ‘ But if my Director-General asks what happened to the agreement that no operation of anything approaching this scale was to be mounted in this country without our knowledge … ? ’ |
| 11 | It'a away at Man City and considering the last two visits to Maine road where we let in 4 goals each game , Is there any chance of us winning this game ? considering also that we did n't win any away games last season . |
| 12 | In the event of our cancelling this order as to all or any of the goods and/or the work covered thereby we shall be entitled to purchase from a third party a like quantity of goods of similar description and quality , or a reasonable alternative thereto , bearing in mind our need to take delivery of the goods by the date specified overleaf , or to contract with a third party to perform work of a similar description and quality , and in that event you shall be liable to reimburse to us on demand all expenditure incurred by us in connection with our said cancellation , including any increase in the price over that stated overleaf . |