Example sentences of "it [be] this [noun] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's this friend of my brother 's who lives in the same block . |
| 2 | That side of me 's it 's this side of me now . |
| 3 | It might appear , from the arguments and prejudices just considered , that the nature of the commitment dividing holists from individualists has already emerged : holists , it seems , are in effect determinists , and it is this feature of their theories that individualists are anxious to reject . |
| 4 | During this time Coe was on the dole and living in Bermondsey , and it is this period of his life that gave him the basis for The Dwarves of Death . |
| 5 | It was this separation of which he had been afraid . |
| 6 | We are therefore not surprised to find that it was this part of his work which most nineteenth-century readers chose to ignore , as any Victorian anthology will prove with its selection of passages relating to Nature . |
| 7 | ‘ All right , then , tell me what it was this friend of yours had me do for him , and I 'll tell you whether I can do ‘ something similar ’ . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It was this friend of yours who turned up this afternoon . |
| 9 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 10 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 11 | It was this manner of his , more than anything else , that seemed to have a therapeutic benefit . |