Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watched as Molly flapped the blanket free of crumbs and folded it neatly . |
| 2 | Toddler walks with her had been a superhuman test of patience as she squatted by every puddle , slowly stirring the water with sticks , and picked up myriads of stones , tenderly brushing them free of earth and inserting them with infinite laboriousness into pockets already grinding with pebbles . |
| 3 | Not for the first time he wondered why it should affect him like that , when he himself was fond of Chuck and admired him , too . |
| 4 | It was suddenly quite impossible to put these living words back into page 300 of Vico and return them to Safe 5 . |
| 5 | Rebel Males by Graham McCann ( Hamish Hamilton , £10.99 ) — Montgomery Clift , Marlon Brando and James Dean , the subjects of this literate and readable study , pioneered a new kind of rebel as screen hero : they exuded primeval , ambiguous sexuality , and were not afraid of roles that made them look vulnerable , foolish or insecure . |
| 6 | Lavender filled it half-full of water and carried it , together with a glass , into the classroom and set it on the teacher 's table . |
| 7 | Well might and wait till the second of July and get it all second hand . |
| 8 | elected on the second of May and wish them an enjoyable and fruitful term of office . |
| 9 | His deputy , Robert Forgan , had satisfactory talks with Neil Francis Hawkins about the amalgamation of the New Party with the British Fascists , but the grand council of the British Fascists voted against a merger by one vote in May 1932 after its founder Rotha Lintorn Orman , who was very suspicious of Mosley and regarded him as a near communist , vigorously opposed the change . |
| 10 | If it is not those of Garrafad and Carnach we will soon have to face , it may be our own people . |
| 11 | They became great friends and when they did that film in Africa they had a 15-hundredweight truck behind them absolutely full of whisky that followed them everywhere they went . |
| 12 | I was full of threats and said I 'd get the right weapons to fight the marchioness , but it was a bluff . |
| 13 | The detail of these two Appendices is indeed so full of problems as to make them rather grim reading . |
| 14 | When it was time for them to go , she rolled up the carpet full of soil and put it in her bedroom . |
| 15 | Re Reg er er , er say we had er say , twenty ton o twenty ton of oats come in and we soon used them up before the next lot , I 'll start on the next lot he , the sample man 'd come in , you know , sample in come them oats he 'd come up perhaps , when they come in , check the first two or three sacks with me , you see , and then I 'd have to get a rubber get a bowl full of oats , bowl full of whole oats put into the rubber , see and get a bowl full of whole and put them through the crusher and crush the main , like , you know , like we used to have , just squeeze them , you know crack them |
| 16 | He let only a moment go by before filling a teaspoon full of caviar and feeding it to her . |
| 17 | Since general public speaking courses are not preparing you to give a particular speech , but to give speeches in general , the first task is simply to get you to stand up in a room full of people and ask you to speak about anything you like for three minutes . |
| 18 | Therefore , they were left with the option of investing millions of pounds or closing them , and perhaps looking at the building of a new reactor . |
| 19 | Country sports are a heritage and a way of life to literally millions of people and to take them away is to prevent freedom of choice within the law . |
| 20 | He came into the kitchen with her , perching upon one of units and watching her as she boiled the kettle and took down a couple of mugs . |
| 21 | For a time he offered his services to Louis VII of France and accompanied him on the second crusade as papal legate in charge of the Anglo-Norman contingent . |
| 22 | He motioned her towards another man , made the briefest of introductions and set them off . |
| 23 | They did so in the face of widespread steel closures , rising unemployment , and knowledge about their poor prospects of re-employment , or they had had enough of work and felt they deserved a rest . |
| 24 | He wished us the best of luck and advised us that the Brigade was here to stay . |
| 25 | If one accepts that comparable hypotheses may explain differential phenomenology ( such as the different experiences of motion-perception previously described ) , then his work shows that it is in principle possible for a creature incapable of experiencing distinct shapes to be aware of motion and to ascribe it correctly to an individual object . |