Example sentences of "[verb] of [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 2 | Do you know of anyone else who is capable of recognising an opportunity if one presents itself ? ’ |
| 3 | Do you know of anyone else who is interested in the UK ? |
| 4 | well go on then I do n't know of anyone though , I bought those kind of shoes there |
| 5 | ‘ Possibly he may know of someone else who gives such lessons . ’ |
| 6 | From my country upbringing I can remember fields of blaggets less common now but I do know of it still being grown in Orkney . |
| 7 | Never yes so I thought let them come and they wanted you to be there and then I could n't rid of I just could n't get them to change their minds you know they just wanted you there and I said |
| 8 | With an odd feeling that he was asking because it was expected of him rather than out of genuine interest , she replied somewhat stiltedly , ‘ Once I 've a clear picture of the items to be displayed , and which room they 're to go in , I can begin the first rough draft for the catalogue . ’ |
| 9 | But she said that almost as if it were expected of her rather than with conviction — and the family knew it . |
| 10 | Nonsense can never be talked with impunity by anyone ; and when governments solemnly talk nonsense in the name of nations , harm is certain to come of it sooner or later . |
| 11 | During this period there were 671 rights issues known to have been underwritten of which only 35 resulted in a loss for the underwriters . |
| 12 | If you 're an expert on these things these er Amstrad things because I know some they do tend to lose things do n't they to disappear of you just ca n't get it back out erm can anyone help cos she 's stuck with it , seven six double one three four . |
| 13 | You 'll see that it is written in a slightly more formal style so that you can be absolutely clear what we expect of your now that you are working in the ES . |
| 14 | At the start of chapter 16 we are reminded of it again , and things seem so hopeless now that Sarah urges Abraham to have a child by her Egyptian maid , Hagar . |
| 15 | It 'll mean disposing of him too , of course . ’ |
| 16 | Sheriffs served writs on the Royal and Ancient and the United States Golf Association and the two letter-writers say that if they are resolved of nothing else in life it is that , even if persuaded that their lavish handicaps would be significantly reduced by using Ping Eye2 clubs , they would never buy a set or play with anyone who has . |
| 17 | There is still much to discover of their even earlier history , and we hope that the crucial steps did not all take place in some site where fossils have little chance of preservation . |
| 18 | But you would n't approve of him anyway . ’ |
| 19 | I just wonder what the little girl will make of it all when she 's older . |
| 20 | At the lowest levels this does not matter : syllables can be identified from the text , and syllables group into clitic phrases , consisting of one lexically stressed syllable and any unstressed syllables which are immediately associated with it , either by being in the same word or by being proclitic or enclitic to it . |
| 21 | Only in the case of two men at Fleet Marston , Bucks. , is any hint given of what else they owned , and its utility is minimal . |
| 22 | And yet , however hard she tried , she could think of nothing particularly traumatic . |
| 23 | Marie could think of nothing else to say . |
| 24 | The idea that she was being punished began to obsess her and she could think of nothing else the whole winter . |
| 25 | A tiny minority of landowners lived in enormous wealth and comfort , exacting feudal dues and enforced labour from farmers who had in effect become their tied peasants : these landowners still engaged in the grain trade as their families had done for generations , and as if they could think of nothing else to do . |
| 26 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 27 | The desire to do this laid hold of him , and he could think of nothing else . ’ |
| 28 | He was ever anxious about the weather and , when he could think of nothing else to be anxious about , he became worried that he must have forgotten something important that should have been causing him worry . |
| 29 | His head was so full of her that he could think of nothing else . |
| 30 | He could think of nothing else . |