Example sentences of "[noun] of [pos pn] [noun] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The despairing jerk of his head to his Sergeant proclaimed that to Charles enough was now enough . |
| 2 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 3 | Although he is based in Paris and spends a great deal of his time in his various houses in France , Lagerfeld is , in the way he conducts his life and work , a relic of an older Germany — a country of small principalities , ruled , like Herzog 's eighteenth-century Weimar , by cultured and cultivated monarchs who surrounded themselves with small courts of aristocrats , intellectuals and kindred creative spirits . |
| 4 | He allows himself a carefully selected smile , humorous , equal to equal , and goes on , the ease of his words belied by the hurry of his delivery and the force of his grip on her arm . |
| 5 | Although Douglas was eventually acquitted of any offence , his initial conviction and the methods of the police — which included presenting in court what they claimed was a transcript of their tape of his speech , but which was only one third of the length of another tape-recording which was played to the court — led many Free Presbyterians and sympathizers to believe that the whole force of the state was being directed against them . |
| 6 | It is undeniable that the individualized character of the Reeve is very prominent as a result of his self-reflexions in his prologue , and that the common theme of the scales of justice in Prologue and Tale invites us to make our own assessments of characters and actions there portrayed . |
| 7 | And it demonstrated that Hitler 's instinctive grasp of the ‘ gut feelings ’ of the population , on which his effectiveness as a speaker greatly rested , was also beginning to leave him as a result of his isolation in his distant field headquarters . |
| 8 | Lester Piggott , his brilliant successor from the 1960s to the 1980s , was driven by such a desperate , obsessive need for wealth and security that he was sent to prison for persistently defrauding the Inland Revenue of its share of his millions . |
| 9 | Brown looked at a photograph of his wife on his desk . |
| 10 | There was no pity for his evident loneliness and many stories circulating about his arrogance and the superior manner in which he parked the cheaply-framed photograph of his parents on his night table . |
| 11 | Until the day he died Churchill kept a photograph of his nanny by his bed . |
| 12 | The question of the relation between Christianity and other world faiths has taken on a new urgency in a time where , for instance , an Indian Christian must take stock of his position vis-à-vis his Hindu fellow-countrymen , or a British or American Christian finds himself living alongside adherents of other religions in his own homeland . |
| 13 | The gentle , rhythmical stroke of his hands on her back was soothing , but she was still shivering . |
| 14 | Given the topic of this book this does not lessen the usefulness of their formulation for our purposes but there remains a whiff of' western-centricness ' about any account which suggests that fewer people are experiencing that ‘ social being ’ which ‘ determines consciousness ’ through organized industrial labour . |
| 15 | The heat of his body , the strength of his arms , the fierce rhythm of his heart against her cheek . |
| 16 | Then he slipped his hand into the glove compartment of his car till his finger rested on the heavy rubber casing of a torch . |
| 17 | Mr Clinton may be staking the future of his presidency on his plan , details of which have been leaked over the past week . |
| 18 | ‘ I have made no provision for my son Robert other than the bequest of £100 because he has been the recipient of my bounty during my lifetime and has nevertheless caused me sorrow and trouble on numerous occasions . ‘ |
| 19 | He sat up , twisting the heels of his hands into his eye sockets , and looked blearily at Helen . |
| 20 | He dug the heels of his hands into his eyes . |
| 21 | This would be one indication of your interest in his/her progress ( or lack of it ) at school . |
| 22 | Riven tried to dredge up images of their foes from his books , but the reality of the rain , the darkness , and the approaching pack left him no time to think . |
| 23 | She saw him glance at her gracefully curved female body , as beautiful as any fashion model 's ; but there was no appraisal of her beauty in his eyes . |
| 24 | You will be subject to a system of periodical appraisal of your performance of your duties since appraisal will include the preparation of your Annual Report . |
| 25 | She felt him naked between her thighs , felt the throb of his manhood against her slippery skin , and his long , expert fingers were still on the pulse that was taking her over , making her mad , driving her into wild darkness , and his voice said thickly , ‘ Rachel … |
| 26 | Moreover , now that I come to think of it , it is perhaps not so surprising that it should also have made a deep impression on Miss Kenton given certain aspects of her relationship with my father during her early days at Darlington Hall . |
| 27 | In many ways this brings Marshall closer to the regulationist school and indeed he explicitly incorporates aspects of their analysis in his approach . |
| 28 | She beat the side of her head with her fist , and shouted , ‘ What an idiot I 've been ! |
| 29 | Swept on the flood of her own excitement , she simply changed course , banging her fist against the side of her chair in her eagerness to make him understand . |
| 30 | She felt powerless as he brought up his other hand and let his fingers feather lightly down the side of her neck to her collar-bone . |