Example sentences of "of [indef pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A farewell party was arranged with the usual outcome of everyone remembering a good evening ( we have to tell ++ ) . |
| 2 | If only I were capable of taking over Swift myself , but I 'm not , I never was , I never will be — I just could n't face it , all the pressure , the ruthless cut-throat ambition of everyone trying to stab me in the back and take my place … |
| 3 | Land Trusts , he thought , should be responsible for the proper exploitation of resources and would need to pay attention to the human and social needs of everyone living in the area . |
| 4 | Palace fans of 1964–1973 owed a great deal to Dick Graham , who was the man who brought Palace back to the ‘ big-time ’ after years of obscurity , and who gave Palace the opportunity ( so admirably taken by Graham 's successor , Bert Head ) of achieving the dream of everyone connected with the Palace club — a place in Division One . |
| 5 | ‘ Darling Dolly should raise the spirits of everyone connected with the film industry , from tycoons to tea boys , ’ declared Marjorie Bilbow in the trade publication Today 's Cinema . |
| 6 | On this view the interests of everyone affected by what we do must be taken into account , and equal interests must be counted equally . |
| 7 | The idea is that one does not really accept a universal rule unless an imaginative attempt to put oneself in the place of everyone affected still leaves one happy with it , for only so does one accept the prescription that the action should be done in that case in which it would be oneself rather than the other who was in such a place . |
| 8 | When he was in a room with people , unless he was following a definite thought , he was so open to their influence that the identity of everyone pressed on him and annihilated him : … |
| 9 | The familiarity of everyone eased the strangeness in Thomas 's head . |
| 10 | Maybe it was nothing more than the statistical impossibility of everyone staying home all of the time . |
| 11 | Then IBM trains the living daylights out of everyone left in the office , and moves many out into the front lines . |
| 12 | I mean do you sort of maximise the good of all , or do you use a criterion of everyone thinking that they themselves are happy , or is it some other means ? |
| 13 | Only one rider , a slightly built girl called ‘ Evelyn ’ , was considered to be sufficiently capable to ride this powerful and frightening horse , which she did to the admiration and applause of everyone watching . |
| 14 | This forgiveness of her and of everyone had called up its opposite . |
| 15 | I 'm just fed up of everyone saying ‘ Oh you 're Robina 's brother |
| 16 | So get pictures taken of everyone coming in . |
| 17 | He walked with self-conscious haste up the south side of the street towards Temple Bar , staring into the face of everyone coming the opposite way , challenging them to give any sign of their pity and contempt . |
| 18 | In the bedroom Caterina and Rosalba shared in the apartment in Rupe , smaller than their room in the farmhouse , Rosa questioned her sister , whispering , the night after Tommaso had made her a gift of the bird in the street in sight of everyone coming out of Mass . |
| 19 | The hope of everyone campaigning for the survival of the 130-year-old warship builder is that work will be allowed to continue on three frigates which are at various construction stages . |
| 20 | Indeed , we should ask forgiveness of everyone held there . |
| 21 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 22 | The Highways Department will sink or swim on the basis of everyone pulling together . ’ |
| 23 | Figures 1 and 2 represent graphically the overall level of participation in meaningful activity of everyone included in the study at each of the seven datapoints . |
| 24 | A few minutes earlier Ruth would have welcomed the idea of everyone going off to sleep ( not that Sean showed any sign of doing so ) as an opportunity for her to indulge in her own thoughts , but the fits of uninhibited laughter had restored her to something nearer to normality , and at last she was present with her companions in mind as well as in the flesh . |
| 25 | The outcome of the negotiations appeared to have satisfied the wishes of everyone involved . |
| 26 | I was talking to Marty W. recently about ‘ Good Rockin' , and while he agreed it was both enjoyable and extremely well done , he confided that something which did n't come over was the almost unbelievable youth of everyone involved back then . |
| 27 | This represents a great achievement in the middle of a recession and says much for the hard work of everyone involved . |
| 28 | Months and months of advance publicity , and newspaper articles about the seriousness and dedication of everyone involved — then the curtains parted , and out on to the stage walked a rather tubby little figure with a balding forehead and thin hair flying in the wind , who leaned anxiously forward and waved his arms about as he talked . |
| 29 | Despite the limited time available to prepare the Consortium 's case , the tremendous commitment of everyone involved — local people , expert witnesses , Mrs Kent ( our solicitor ) , and Mr Burrell — ensured that the case , when presented , was a strong one . |
| 30 | Robin Preece went on ‘ The disruption has been minimised by the tremendous co-operation of everyone involved , at all three Scottish Nuclear locations and our contractors . |