Example sentences of "of [indef pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was in a room with people , unless he was following a definite thought , he was so open to their influence that the identity of everyone pressed on him and annihilated him : … |
| 2 | The familiarity of everyone eased the strangeness in Thomas 's head . |
| 3 | Then IBM trains the living daylights out of everyone left in the office , and moves many out into the front lines . |
| 4 | This forgiveness of her and of everyone had called up its opposite . |
| 5 | Indeed , we should ask forgiveness of everyone held there . |
| 6 | Figures 1 and 2 represent graphically the overall level of participation in meaningful activity of everyone included in the study at each of the seven datapoints . |
| 7 | The outcome of the negotiations appeared to have satisfied the wishes of everyone involved . |
| 8 | I was talking to Marty W. recently about ‘ Good Rockin' , and while he agreed it was both enjoyable and extremely well done , he confided that something which did n't come over was the almost unbelievable youth of everyone involved back then . |
| 9 | This represents a great achievement in the middle of a recession and says much for the hard work of everyone involved . |
| 10 | Months and months of advance publicity , and newspaper articles about the seriousness and dedication of everyone involved — then the curtains parted , and out on to the stage walked a rather tubby little figure with a balding forehead and thin hair flying in the wind , who leaned anxiously forward and waved his arms about as he talked . |
| 11 | Despite the limited time available to prepare the Consortium 's case , the tremendous commitment of everyone involved — local people , expert witnesses , Mrs Kent ( our solicitor ) , and Mr Burrell — ensured that the case , when presented , was a strong one . |
| 12 | Robin Preece went on ‘ The disruption has been minimised by the tremendous co-operation of everyone involved , at all three Scottish Nuclear locations and our contractors . |
| 13 | It 's a striking testimony to the unstinting efforts of everyone involved , primarily the players and management who have had to contend with criticism that too often was both vindictive and personalised . |
| 14 | It 's a striking testimony to the unstinting efforts of everyone involved , primarily the players and management who have had to contend with criticism that too often was both vindictive and personalised . |
| 15 | " This division was adapted not so much to the fertility or equal territorial extent of each share , as to the family connections ( affinitas ) , and the interests and commitments ( congruentia ) , of everyone involved " — that is to say , not of the kings alone , but of all twenty-four commissioners and beyond them , of their comrades , kin , friends and clients . |
| 16 | When I established our environmental objectives in 1990 , I recognised that we had set ourselves some very demanding targets which could only be met through the continuous commitment and effort of everyone involved . |
| 17 | A small lump of nothing rolled across the floor , gathering substance , and coalesced into an unnoticed rat . |
| 18 | Another five thousand kilometres of nothing went by . |
| 19 | Maxwell 's voice was rather high-pitched and soft , but despite this he spoke with the authority of someone accustomed to getting his own way . |
| 20 | He had the look of someone felled by sleep , and just wakened . |
| 21 | of someone lost between two thoughts , |
| 22 | When they had gone , Lily cried for them in their helplessness , feeling , for all her weakness , stronger than them , realising that it was easier to contemplate one 's own death than the death of someone loved . |
| 23 | But what else could you expect of someone called Sebastian ? |
| 24 | There was no board outside proclaiming it to be a guest house , or hotel , so if it was n't , and they only took in private guests , or friends , she could hardly go dumping herself on them just on the recommendation of someone called Annie , could she ? |
| 25 | Chrissy 's howls were those of someone abandoned , utterly desolate . |
| 26 | Imagine with me Chairman if you will the thoughts of someone trapped by some misfortune in the midst of the wreckage of a road traffic accident on the M 1 motorway Southbound between junctions twenty one and twenty that 's at Nutterworth or Northbound between twenty one and twenty two or Westbound on the M 69 they 'll be thinking the fire brigade 'll be here in a minute or two . |
| 27 | The liability of someone held out to be a partner is co-extensive with the liability of partners properly so called ( see s14 above ) . |
| 28 | The work as a whole reflects the experience and preoccupations of a palatine cleric , and it addresses the questions of someone reared in that milieu . |
| 29 | It was the automatic and well-oiled gesture of someone used to trading in secrets . |
| 30 | I had , not here , but at home , a very awful experience of somebody camped on to the electricity board , because the power was off , and I was trying to ring them up , and you ca n't get through to somebody who 's camped on to them . |