Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in no time at all , it seemed , plates of food arrived — a delicious mixture of fish , most of which Lindsey dismally failed to recognise . |
| 2 | While looking forward in its powerfully climactic , funeral-march sections to the episode of Siegfried 's death in the Wagner excerpts later , the instrumental virtuosity of its writing also seemed to pick up where the preceding concert left off in the Chicago 's bravura , if sometimes coarse-grained account of Strauss 's Ein Heldenleben . |
| 3 | It disturbed him to think of her father perhaps waking to hear him tiptoe down the passage like a shifty thief afraid of discovery . |
| 4 | This aspect of his treatment therefore seems to have been managed with some success . |
| 5 | Albert Einstein spent the last 50 years of his life unsuccessfully trying to unify the theories of electromagnetism and gravity . |
| 6 | He was speaking of the unreal world in which some of his friends here seem to live . |
| 7 | The thinker who most boldly exploits this psychological tension is Nietzsche , who in the exuberance of his thought always strains to seize the most sombre truths without losing the momentum of his ‘ gay science ’ . |
| 8 | The precociousness of his talent now seems to have been just as well , because by time he left his native land , aged eighteen , more than a third of his life was already gone . |
| 9 | Has the right hon. and learned Gentleman anything positive to say to us , or will the rest of his speech simply seek to justify the status quo and say no to everything that has been put before him tonight ? |
| 10 | Mr Husseini , the most senior supporter of the PLO in the occupied territories , has spent much of his time recently trying to prevent the killing of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities . |
| 11 | The imprints of his hands still seemed to burn on her skin , as if at any moment her nightdress might burst into flames . |
| 12 | Albeit , one of his hostesses still managed to employ ‘ twenty pretty maids ’ . |
| 13 | I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer . |
| 14 | Judged against this standard , many of our towns now seem to leave a great deal to be desired . ’ |
| 15 | Some of our partners also sought to draw a distinction between decisions of principle , where unanimity would apply , and implementing decisions which could be subject to majority voting . |