Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes fell on two empty jam jars standing on a shelf , and then her mind flew to the clumps of snowdrops she 'd noticed blooming near the entrance to the shearers ' quarters . |
| 2 | The sorts of things I happen to like , the sorts of things I happen to be good at or bad at . |
| 3 | For its part Thames Water welcomed the report , but spokesman Tom Curtin says the company 's been acting on the sorts of things it 's recommended for some time . |
| 4 | If you feel it will be difficult to stand back sufficiently to carry out the sorts of procedures we have discussed in this chapter , then it may be best to avoid them . |
| 5 | It is possible that the question you are asking is different from the sorts of discussion you have encountered in what you have read on the subject . |
| 6 | No , no I think it 's just that er , then your sorts of signs I think to indicate that , that was a no ball because it was , I 'm sure an unintentional er beamer and er , they still did well really to get a bit of back on here so . |
| 7 | If we lose our grip on this , if it gets away from us , we 'll be very unhappy , very embarrassed , and very much in debt to all sorts of people we prefer to control rather than be controlled by . |
| 8 | We need to understand how and why male fantasies may commonly differ from female ones , and why the sorts of fantasies I have mentioned , which may in some ways seem antithetical to feminism , may still have a strong appeal to women who have a feminist allegiance . |
| 9 | I sobered , thinking of sagas I had heard of wolves , but my father hushed me . |
| 10 | This conviction arose from the literature study as well as from the great deal of experience we had acquired in the shock treatment of these depressions ’ . |
| 11 | Like all Trolls they will eat anything and through force of circumstance they tend to eat a lot of rocks . |
| 12 | We need to be much more precise about the aspects of man that engage our attention and the methods of study we propose to adopt . |
| 13 | After all the signals of rejection she 'd sent out at the apartment — despite Marlin , despite the dangerous streets , despite the hour , despite their bitter history — she 'd come , bearing the gift of her body to his bed . |
| 14 | In his outpourings to the readers of Ink he had compared bureaucrats to the police , the army and prison officers . |
| 15 | This is the earliest mention of tennis I have come across , and it is nice to know that even at this early age a sporting rivalry existed between the two villages . |
| 16 | I have also complained to you continually about the loss of orders I have taken from my customers , ie back orders which get lost on the computer or they are not delivered due to the lack of stock . |
| 17 | The Russian Government had purchased firearms , and the plaintiff claimed that this was a result of influence he had exerted ; if this were true , he would be entitled to commission on the sale value . |
| 18 | What 's interesting also growing cos the election employee representation is something which trade unionists are beginning to face as a result of initiative they 'd taken by U K employers . |
| 19 | He was seated on the sofa sifting through a batch of papers he had taken from his attache case . |
| 20 | My multiple personality required multiple scripts , and from my study of graphology I tried to create individual scripts that conformed to the analyses of heavy down-strokes , ‘ pasty ’ loops and uncrossed ‘ ts ’ : I was especially interested in ‘ pasty ’ strokes , which are supposed to indicate a rich sexuality , and disconnected letters , indicative of ‘ inspiration ’ . |
| 21 | I mean they used to provide the advisor to various secretaries of state I think did n't they ? |
| 22 | On June 11 , as she visited a hospice in Southport , Merseyside , the facade of bravery she had managed to sustain crumbled and she burst into tears . |
| 23 | Had she been wrong , after all , Lisa suddenly wondered , about that underlying lightness of mood she had sensed in him ? |
| 24 | I have found no contrary feelings among any of the heads of government I have met . ’ |
| 25 | Small things still gave us hope and the rare glimpses of colour we saw took on an almost spiritual quality . |
| 26 | Since I mention native speakers ' feelings in this connection , and since I am elsewhere rather sceptical about appeals to native speakers ' feelings , I had better explain that in this case my evidence comes from the native speakers of English I have taught in practical classes on transcription over many years . |
| 27 | But in the years preceding the outbreak of war it had become by far the largest single retailer . |
| 28 | Relations between working class husbands and wives never lacked affection and it may well be that the poor , early twentieth century working class wife derived as great a satisfaction from the mix of activities she undertook to sustain her family as her modern counterpart does from , typically , a part-time job and the performance of less arduous domestic tasks ( with varying degrees of help from her husband ) . |
| 29 | We took four or five weeks to get across the Atlantic , being pursued by enemy submarines — all very worrying ! — and while Ben was setting Auden 's Hymn to St Cecilia and writing A Ceremony of Carols I started to put the Grimes scenario into shape . |
| 30 | Rose , for her part , thought that McAllister talked funny , and when Sally-Anne had told her that she came from the United States of America she had stared at her as though she had said that she came from the moon . |