Example sentences of "of [pron] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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1 | The glory of victory , the bitterness of defeat , the sunny nature of everyone as they cross the bridge into the magic world for a few hours on a frosty January day . |
2 | Calvin Smith came in ahead of me but I beat the Pole Marian Woronin , who had run third at the previous European . |
3 | And she thumped the cake down so hard in front of me that I expected the plate to shatter . |
4 | I done most of them but I left the sheet at home in my coat . |
5 | Moore said : ‘ If people get into wrong positions inadvertently , there will be such a desperate desire to get out of them because they need the ball , I think it could increase violence . ’ |
6 | There is sailing , windsurfing , archery , mini-golf and all these pursuits are free of charge — so it is a pity not to make use of them when you have the opportunity . |
7 | I did not succeed in evading the notice of either of them as they had the advantage of knowing what would come next . |
8 | Both of them jump back slightly as a cat darts in front of them as they leave the park , they both watch it running across the road without looking and then scramble up a wall to window ledge . |
9 | Willie caught sight of them as he turned the corner . |
10 | THERE IS A CREEK in North America which in early summer is overhung with arching fronds of flowers ; you have to duck in and out of them as you paddle the canoe . |
11 | There must have been a dozen people seated round the huge polished table , but she barely noticed any one of them as she opened the door and was confronted by the sight of Luke Calder . |
12 | But they were unable to spin out their game for long ; impatience got the better of them and they returned the puppy , which stood shivering under its mother 's tongue as she licked it clean of foreign influences . |
13 | I forget , was one of them and I forget the names now . . |
14 | My mother will take care of you while I get the house together , ’ he said , embracing her gently before taking us into the house . |
15 | This is the way to proceed in living ! — Make such a loud noise in front of you that you drown the thought of your own uncertainty . |
16 | And er d you n really ne you need you need a bottle of champagne by the side of you when you reach the stage when suddenly you can see the front of the van . |
17 | She Stephen showed the gift of something when he preached the truth about God and the message of Jesus . |
18 | Yet despite the enormous preponderance of Thou and You forms the addressee is under constant criticism . |
19 | Tracy shows us her feelings a lot more , increasingly apparent in video shots of her when she received the Beefeater trophy . |
20 | Su Pollard is good fun , and so is Jackie Collins — I 'm very fond of her and I like the way she talks . |
21 | Cries rose on all sides of her as she filled the dishes , but she worked on steadily oblivious , like some eccentric female St Francis , brooding a little about the image seen in the vicarage garden , which , although it had turned out to be only an old cloth flung over a tree stump , was an indication of the way things might go . |
22 | She claimed photographers who took pictures of her as she walked the streets or appeared at public events were then making a fortune by selling their shots to companies ready to churn out posters , T-shirts and magazines by the million . |
23 | And that was the problem , Sabine thought , staring rigidly ahead of her as he started the car . |
24 | She had winkled out of him that he got the story from Georgie and she had much trouble persuading him it was a joke . |
25 | Unbeaten all year and even expected to win by his rivals , the 26-year-old had looked odds-on to win the senior world title which British athletics had been expecting of him since he won the junior crown in 1986 . |
26 | It was just what she needed — to see him , to have the reassurance of him before she faced the evening at the château . |
27 | People knew of him because he took the pictures of more collective Sheringham life — weddings , school celebrations . |
28 | Aggression or no aggression , Leith had had a surfeit of him and his calling the shots . |
29 | At first he could not see anything , but then someone pushed a lighted torch in front of him and he caught the gleam of the bluish-grey metal inside . |
30 | ‘ Put an arrow into the ground in front of him when I give the sign — far enough ahead to be seen in good time . ’ |