Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] of [noun] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could only think of Adam and pray he would be all right . |
| 2 | CAMBRIDGE made a magnificent effort in the 138th Boat Race to break Oxford 's long run of successes but lost one of the most outstanding duels in the history of the event by 1½ lengths . |
| 3 | These are rarely found complete as the blades are generally made of iron and have therefore rusted away . |
| 4 | But these would have been mainly in the military zones , such as the example already noted of Hercules and Hesione at Chester . |
| 5 | Each of the four applicants , now the appellants , has been individually convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 6 | The SDI Organization had been widely accused of incompetence and waste in its use of the $20,900 million spent on SDI since 1984 . |
| 7 | Its lid , or mouton , is also made of oak and consists of two semi-circular or rectangular flaps which fold down to make a horizontal plate that presses the grapes inside the maie . |
| 8 | She obviously thoroughly disapproved of holidays and spent all her time polishing the plastic . ’ |
| 9 | I usually start at the walls because I find it easier to think up the general colour scheme first , but many people prefer to start with the floor because they automatically think of carpet and presume that this will be the most expensive item . |
| 10 | He too was arrested and later convicted of treason and executed . |
| 11 | In fact people who have never even heard of contraception and have never stepped inside a family planning clinic still plan their families . |
| 12 | In 1940 the use of sugar for cake icing was prohibited — tiered wedding cakes were frequently made of cardboard and hired from bakers . |
| 13 | A new concept that does n't depend on recognition , does n't depend of check-off and does n't depend on representation by shop stewards in every workplace . |
| 14 | The Bank of England , in its latest quarterly bulletin yesterday , blames the length of the current recession squarely on debt deflation , the buzz-word for borrowers determined to repay debt before they even think of spending and borrowing more . |
| 15 | If Jones has never heard of Tolstoy or read any of his books , it is meaningless to assert that Jones either likes Tolstoy as a writer or does not like Tolstoy as a writer . |
| 16 | ‘ Mushy peas are described as the Caviar of the North , but the average Chinaman has never heard of caviar and thinks the ‘ North ’ is Outer Mongolia . ’ |