Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [conj] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1	It was the advent of Dan that had changed her .
2	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 .
3	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 .
4	She had finally walked out on him and it had only been the intervention of Philpott that had brought them back together again .
5	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 .
6	So did you t did you like it in Ireland , I mean , did did you like it when you lived in the Republic of Ireland or did Did you like living there ?
7	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 .
8	The DIANA deputy , Kostis Stefanopoulos , had been a member of ND but had left it to form his own party after a leadership dispute with Mitsotakis in September 1985 [ see p. 34441 ] .
9	He often could not hear questions in the House of Commons and had to have them repeated to him by Margesson , his Chief Whip .
10	They took hold of Oliver and began to beat him .
11	I sat in an armchair with a copy of Punch and pretended to read it , but my eyes kept going back to those lips and that tiny corner of pink tongue and I was in a turmoil .

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