Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I made my way up to the lobby with those final two words of hers ringing around inside my head , and all sorts of other doctor phrases started to enter my mind — people calling me Doctor Streeter , popular songs with the word doctor in them — and then all of a sudden I started to cry .
2 I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces .
3 It is a small Stately Home mostly dating from the eighteenth century , but bits of it go back to Elizabethan times .
4 Though when , having ousted him , thoughts of him crept back in again , she grew impatient with herself , and took herself off for a walk around town .
5 Solicitors acting for the Princess of Wales have demanded that secret photographs of her working out in a gym should be handed over and that she should be given details of how much money was made from them .
6 The floor of his room was like a maze , with tower-blocks of books , whole walls of them set out on the thin carpet and holed linoleum so that only small corridors for him to walk in remained between them .
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