Example sentences of "[verb] of [noun sg] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You talk of family and you mean one ruthless and callous renegade . |
| 32 | Now some people , even though the Green Party has er been an established party for some time now , might feel that er it , this is the Green Party perhaps coming of age because it does n't sound like a Green issue , you 're , you 're discussing things across the board at the moment are n't you |
| 33 | He warned of disaster if they continued tearing themselves apart — then dubbed Labour leader John Smith and deputy Margaret Beckett the ‘ Whinge and Beckett ’ of politics . |
| 34 | they used to pour it out of a can you know , it 's a wonder we did n't all die of tuberculosis but we did n't . |
| 35 | And that 's another one , you know : she would die of shame if she knew that you were even looking at a Felton , never mind expressing affection for one . |
| 36 | Never ! 'Cos I would die of shame if I retaliated and hit back ; and I would , because I 've levelled men almost as big as you before today , and you know it . ’ |
| 37 | I 'll die of boredom if I live that long — |
| 38 | Obviously I 'd be delighted if you choose to come this direction but I understand of course that you have other options to look at . |
| 39 | As always , I felt a rising tingle of excitement as I contemplated the meticulously shorn surfaces of my face . |
| 40 | He must have supposed himself to be using a language absolutely purged of metaphor when he wrote at the grand climax of the Discourse on method |
| 41 | Mr Steven Hadley , defending , said Williams 's wife , Andrea , 30 , died of cancer and he went to the medical centre in Pinner armed with a knife intending to make his wife 's GP , Dr Patricia Carson , apologise for what he felt was a wrong diagnosis . |
| 42 | and she says well , it was Doctor but Jean she says you 've been so tired you should 've went of bed when you felt tired because with sitting |
| 43 | I have certainly tried to argue that it makes sense to talk of God inviting trust by withholding the sort of evidence which might admit of certainty that He exists . |
| 44 | It merely hints that the world will be a better place if we support it because the unquantified benefits which will flow from it will put us on a level with Germany and France , assuming of course that we wish to be on a level with Germany and France . |
| 45 | The lucky recipient of an Indian cadetship had at least the prospect of returning home as a wealthy senior officer , assuming of course that he survived the very real hazards of life in the East . |
| 46 | It is an ideology that calls itself pluralism when it imposes monoculture ; that speaks of choice as it snuffs out the biodiversity of the earth ; that cries democracy when it eclipses and denies all alternatives . |
| 47 | I 'm only half joking of course when I say that by comparison the rip-offs and the scams and the scandals mean nothing . |
| 48 | Long fingering of manuscript and I thought the fingering . |
| 49 | He was n't hurt and he did n't let go of Caspar but he howled , an awful wailing with his mouth open . |
| 50 | And you knew what they were thinking , they were trying to weigh up whether they dare go across the stepping stones and you could tell by their faces and what they did of course when they decided no it was beyond them and they 'd play safe and they 'd go back the same way . |
| 51 | But now I think of G.P. and I compare him to Piers . |
| 52 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 53 | ‘ She 's young and very rich , and her parents disapprove of Rizzi because he does n't have noble blood . |
| 54 | And Hardy 's were probably the best known fishing tackle shop in the world and it got into the hands of one of the Hardy 's brothers and he said , ‘ May we market it under your name ? ’ and I said , ‘ My God , I 'd rather have that than a knighthood ’ — this was some years ago — and then Hardy 's were rationalized , which means of course that everything costs twice as much and there was n't as much in the shop . |
| 55 | Which means of course if you work for Trading Standards , as I did until very recently if you work for Trading Standards you tend to get a rather jaundiced view of shopping . |
| 56 | It was hard not to think of life as it had been back in 1986 , or in Terry 's and Tom 's case , 1985 . |
| 57 | I was trying to think of rubbish that I 'd taken out . |
| 58 | Whether the view of science led Peirce to look for a prior epistemology , or whether the desire for , or availability of , a prior epistemology led him to think of inquiry as he did , are questions I shall not pursue here . |
| 59 | It is somewhat of a simplification but this definition seems to describe ‘ what is left of society after we get rid of consideration of production and the state ’ . |
| 60 | There was not a word said of business until they came to table in Isambard 's great hall , where the envoy found himself in the place of honour at his host 's right hand . |