Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Party host guilty of killing friend . |
| 2 | Michael Heseltine is accusing Labour of highjacking Tory policies in a bid to get elected . |
| 3 | ‘ While some institutions have made public share investments in hotel companies , the property departments remain shy of hotels , ’ she said . |
| 4 | A new constitution was adopted in September 1904 but Congregationalists fought shy of using the word ‘ church ’ , with the implication that local chapels were de facto parishes within a new national body , and retained their old title of ‘ Union ’ : churches remained the local bodies of gathered believers . |
| 5 | He was determined to restore order in the countryside , to avoid giving the impression that nobles could force him into concessions , and to silence the most determined of his critics , but he neither abandoned the task of implementing the emancipation statutes nor fought shy of enacting the additional measures to which freeing the serfs gave rise . |
| 6 | Rafts of logs , waiting for shipment , had been ripped free of their bindings , smashing through concrete buildings as if they were built of playing cards . |
| 7 | Each man would wear an individual set of breathing apparatus and as each group got clear of the gas in Bank mine the equipment would be taken back into Knockshinnoch by rescuers and used by another group of three men . |
| 8 | When I got clear of them I went down almost to sea level and there were two holes in the water about where my two would have gone in . |
| 9 | By the time Maisie and he got clear of the crowd , Aziz and Hasan were almost at the other side of the Common . |
| 10 | Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion . |
| 11 | ‘ We got fond of each other , Francis and I. He was a generous man , a rare thing these days . |
| 12 | This help was always given free of charge . |
| 13 | It was resolved that the attendance of the physician and the surgeons should be given free of all expense to the institution , and that each should be allowed the privileges of a governor by virtue of their appointments . |
| 14 | The Financial Times of July 27 reported that the Israeli Defence Ministry had confirmed that plots of land in the occupied territories were to be given free of charge to Jewish people wishing to settle . |
| 15 | In the majority of cases it is something that is given free of charge . |
| 16 | And the peewit tumbled clear of the laundromat |
| 17 | The whole thing did n't take very long ; just over a year after his freedom of the Weavers ' Company had been approved , William Charles Titford , Linen Draper , ‘ Son of Charles Titford of Frome , Somersetshire , Cheesemonger , ’ became free of the City , ‘ … paying unto Mr Chamberlain for this City 's use the Sum of forty six shillings and eight pence ’ . |
| 18 | When I say ‘ this war ’ , I am not thinking only of the current one , but of all our modern wars and our entire modern history from when we became free of the Turks in 1819 . |
| 19 | He served an apprenticeship with the London bookseller Abel Roper from 1 August 1644 until 28 June 1652 , when he became free of the Stationers ' Company . |
| 20 | Daniel became free of the Haberdashers ' Company in 1632 , and apprenticed Samuel to the same trade in 1634 . |
| 21 | At the expiry of his term he became free of the Clothworkers ' Company on 7 August 1771 . |
| 22 | William became free of the Masons ' Company in 1663 . |
| 23 | LADY Arran , a 71-year-old countess with a penchant for speed , put Britain back in the record books yesterday with a storming run in a hydroplane that made light of choppy conditions at the National Water Sports Centre at Holme Pierrepont , Nottingham . |
| 24 | But Miss Patricia Rawlings , Tory Euro-MP for Essex South-West , made light of the ideological distinctions . |
| 25 | But Kendall 's men made light of any suggestion of a crisis with an irresistible first-half display . |
| 26 | Torrential rain greeted England 's first appearance in Wales for eight seasons , but the visitors made light of the slippery conditions . |
| 27 | ALEC Stewart made light of being struck on the head by a stone during yesterday 's one-day international defeat at Gwalior . |
| 28 | ALEC Stewart made light of being struck on the head by a stone during yesterday 's one-day international defeat at Gwalior . |
| 29 | He kicked off with a very comfortable success in Division One of the Restricted on Jim Papworth 's Melton Park , who made light of his 7lb. penalty in his fourth victory of the season , and followed up in Division Two on Paylins . |
| 30 | At that moment , as she seriously considered calling-off the wedding , they made light of her fears and premonitions of the disaster which lay ahead . |