Example sentences of "[verb] of [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 2 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 3 | How could he think of abandoning her to the malevolent clutches of this voracious monster ? |
| 4 | Our instincts tell us to beware of abandoning ourselves to the care of someone else . |
| 5 | But never before has Moses been accused of lording it over the people ( some words of Korah in verse 3 of this same chapter come close to such a charge ) and never before has Egypt been called ‘ a land flowing with milk and honey ’ . |
| 6 | And Chancellor Norman Lamont was last night accused of sunning himself as the economy sinks into deeper gloom . |
| 7 | Beware of over-committing yourself to the foot sweep . |
| 8 | But the cubicle in which the yellow sheet had been found could reveal no further secrets , and all hope had early been abandoned of learning anything from the scores of footprints which had criss-crossed the grassy area since the murder . |
| 9 | Since the egg can not enter the oviduct , the treatment consists of removing it from the ovary prior to ovulation , fertilizing it in the laboratory , and placing the proembryo into the uterus where it has a chance to implant . |
| 10 | Testing consists of identifying which of the known ones which of the known er sub-patterns er occur in my new input . |
| 11 | He met two artists , husband and wife , ‘ awfully sweet , she has a bold yet subtle and exotic sense of colour ’ , and thought of trying her for the costumes ; he had already got another artist to try and ‘ you never saw such revue in all your life ’ . |
| 12 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
| 13 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 14 | I thought of presenting myself at the docks and saying that my pocket had been picked … but I lacked the impudence to carry it off . |
| 15 | And I thought of putting something in the paper , asking anyone born on April the tenth that year at Thorn House to get in touch . |
| 16 | Do you dream of making it to the top of the corporate tree whilst still short of the tooth and long in ideas ? |
| 17 | She knows she could have gone much further but would not dream of stabbing anyone in the back to get on , even if they deserved it . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |
| 19 | As a matter of fact , I 'm thinking of offering her to The Lancet . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's what comes of feeding them at the table , ’ Michele remarked . |