Example sentences of "of [noun] and [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rushed home with his hot food , mixed a lemon and honey with a large dash of whisky and proceeded to open his parcel . |
| 2 | For instance , young and untrained sheepdogs will often spontaneously run round to the other side of a flock of sheep and try to drive them towards the shepherd . |
| 3 | I was carrying a good supply of handkerchiefs and managed to keep myself clean , but it was ten past eight before I had recovered sufficiently to move , with attendance at the concert now out of the question . |
| 4 | ‘ Though I have shown photographs throughout my exhibition organising career , I took it as a matter of course and have shown them as I have any other art form and along side any other art form whether it is painting or sculpture . |
| 5 | ‘ For my mother it was a prayer answered , for me like dreaming of paradise and waking to find I was there already . |
| 6 | Robson , who will contact Kenny Dalglish today for an update on Barnes , said : ‘ Kenny has phoned me a couple of times and has told me that Barnes has done some training this week . |
| 7 | Should not we as a practical matter offer them the facilities of Burghfield and Dounreay to do something about the beryllium and other toxic compounds which are doubtless leaking from ill-maintained equipment ? |
| 8 | Someone might have heard him talking in a pub about his sudden excess of money and decided to take it off him . |
| 9 | Special programmes must be provided where needed to address the problems that refugees face through their past circumstances to give them equality of opportunity and to avoid eroding their talents and initiative . |
| 10 | Lady Grubb picked up her plate of junket and went to eat it in the drawing-room , shaking with a passion she did n't care to scrutinize because it contained not only fury but also amazement and fear . |
| 11 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |
| 12 | Sister Cooney picked up a pile of books and began to replace them on the shelves . |
| 13 | ‘ As a pup he was always asleep , so one day we put him in a pair of pyjamas and started calling him PJ . |
| 14 | He sat down by Sally-Anne , his ruined cheek slightly averted , poured himself another cup of tea and began to question her again . |
| 15 | She put down the tray , poured out three cupsful of tea and sat watching them . |
| 16 | Binkie Beaumont , the head of Tennents , was fond of Ken and wanted to give him a star vehicle — his part was bigger than those of Dame Edith and Michael Bryant put together . |
| 17 | After this year , however , Gary became really confused for a couple of months and began to doubt his call in the first place . |
| 18 | Get to know when you are at your best for different types of study and try to do them when you know you 're at your best . |
| 19 | Burke was not in the best of condition and had lost his fighting spirit because of his troubles with Byrne and O'Rourke . |
| 20 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 21 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 22 | Mary Tudor rode to London in order to claim the throne and with the intention of reinstating the Roman Catholic Church , but the fact that she was married to Philip of Spain and wished to make him King of England , was also not acceptable and led to hostility in London . |
| 23 | Twice before she 'd had proposals of marriage and had rejected them because she could n't feel for the men they came from . |
| 24 | At this time I did n't have a clue about fitting this type of equipment and had to pay somebody to do it for me . |
| 25 | ‘ He 'll be fine in a few days , my dear , with an infusion of clover and foxglove to steady his heart . |
| 26 | The unseemly scene on the death of Pope Adrian IV in 1159 , when , on the election of the chancellor , Roland , as Pope Alexander III , the anti-pope , Octavian ( Victor IV ) tore the scarlet papal mantle from the shoulders of Alexander and attempted to carry it off , is recorded by Alexander 's biographer , Boso . |
| 27 | Ruby had told of buying a pair of corsets and having to carry them along Church Street unwrapped . |
| 28 | In need of money , he agreed to take on work as an artist 's model when Ricky Stride said he knew of an artist who would employ him , for Minton had seen photographs of Bowler and had remarked what a good model he would make . |
| 29 | Uncertainly , he turned his back on the prowling form of Jeopardy and attempted to curl his body into the movement Amber had disrupted . |
| 30 | Further , with a little prompting ( i.e. respondents presented with a standard list of classes and asked to place themselves ) the overwhelming majority of respondents were willing to assign themselves to the ‘ middle ’ or ‘ working ’ classes or some sub-division of these . |