Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | great And of course her doing it all with her usual |
| 2 | So And then of course we had our own thrashing mill and we did our own thrashing but it was great fun down the glen when they got the thrashing mill in . |
| 3 | Of course he knew what those reasons were but he had never faced them . |
| 4 | So a lawyer came , and of course I had my own office , confidential stuff , so he wanted to give it to me . |
| 5 | Each of these in isolation produces a form of curriculum which embodies its own emphases ; but it is surely better to consider them as the three necessary dimensions of any truly general education ( Squires 1987a ) . |
| 6 | The other major concern for women is about finding ways of living which give us more independence , more control over our own lives , and more self worth than is frequently the experience of women in subordination to men . |
| 7 | I made a lot of mistakes as any young person does , but I never made the mistake of thinking I knew it all as far as the Africans were concerned . " |
| 8 | In 1977 Caputo published the superb Rumour of War which documented his own combat experiences in Vietnam ; subsequent novels by Caputo revealed as much about his own problems in leaving Vietnam behind as anything else . |
| 9 | You might find this hard to believe but I 'm the kind of person who likes nothing more than to potter about the house in a pair of jeans and a sweater and eat spaghetti Bolognese . |
| 10 | The Australian Aborigines make a clear distinction between the works of art they consider their own and those they claim go back to the time of their creation , popularly referred to as the Dreamtime in all literature about Aborigines . |
| 11 | Their work was hampered when a large boulder blocking their way was moved , resulting in a further fall of shale which took them several hours to remove . |
| 12 | Each has , as its head , a Secretary of State who heads his own Office , but who is a member of the Cabinet and answerable to Parliament for the discharge of his duties and exercise of his powers . |
| 13 | On matters where there are social inhibitions about declaring one 's most personal views or experiences , such as in sexual matters , family relationships , social class , religion and perhaps politics , it is obvious that informal interviewing could result in very selective discussions taking place from which the researcher would simply produce the sort of information which suited his own bias . |
| 14 | He lacked spark from the start and never hit the kind of form which won him this title in the same ring last October . |
| 15 | Media is a complex , quite technical part of advertising which requires its own blend of skills . |
| 16 | Through the haze of steam she contemplated nothing much at all , and gradually felt some of her tension and wariness disperse . |
| 17 | The demand of an ever more literate population for books , pamphlets and magazines on parenthood is met by a stream of material which surpasses itself each year , not only in volume , but in the seductive , indeed sumptuous , way in which it is produced . |
| 18 | By accepting the role of victim he glorified his own suffering and was brought close to Christ . |
| 19 | Described by one writer as a cross between ‘ a sultan and a bandolier , a caliph and an ascetic , and a rural schoolmaster and a guerrilla ’ , Mr Anguita , 48 , is the kind of politician who carries his own revolver . |