Example sentences of "[pron] of [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curiosity ran high as to who this purchaser — obviously someone of wealth and taste — could be . |
| 2 | We returned from our walk aglow with wind-reddened cheeks , divested ourselves of boots and outer layers of wrapping and flopped down in the deep chairs of the sunset-lit lounge chatting , until David left at around 10 p.m . |
| 3 | The Beastline were interested in all she could tell them of Tara and of the exiled Court . |
| 4 | The commission of crimes against them will have the effect of diminishing their positive freedom , to which they also have a right ; for example crimes of injurious violence reduce the victims ' freedom to operate physically free from pain , while property offences will deprive them of resources and thereby remove their freedom to choose to act in ways which require the use of those resources . |
| 5 | It was scarcely bearable , talking to Aunt Sarah with this invisible wall between them of things that could n't be mentioned . |
| 6 | We also point out to them of course that the second er portion of the first year 's payment is taken out through banker 's order . |
| 7 | President Mugabe aroused the students ' anger last weekend with a speech accusing them of drinking and smoking too much and misbehaving rather than studying . |
| 8 | The crucial factor in these committees was the presence on them of members and officers together . |
| 9 | Someone might say : " The conventionalist system is best because fairness requires that people be put on notice when their plans may be interrupted by the intervention of state power , depriving them of liberty or property or opportunity . |
| 10 | At the same time , inspect and clean the gutters and rainwater gullies , emptying them of leaves and silt — finish off by flushing them with a bucket of warm water . |
| 11 | The gutter is supported at frequent intervals on brackets which can be raised or lowered to determine its ‘ fall ’ , and gutters must run to a good fall and should be cleaned at least annually to free them of leaves and mud ; they must not sag between brackets . |
| 12 | They regarded the higher officer ranks and the armed forces Chiefs of Staff as politically motivated and corrupt , accusing them of corruption and of being traitors to military ideals such as " national dignity " . |
| 13 | So the ‘ markers ’ of good judgement and the rules that are really important must become so ingrained that children have their own discretion and a conscience to ‘ remind ’ them of right and wrong . |
| 14 | ( His introduction of lime juice ( and hence vitamin C ) into the sailors ' daily rations cured them of scurvy and gained for the British tars the nickname of ‘ limeys ’ . ) |
| 15 | A sort of pollinated bloom was on them of dust and sun . |
| 16 | A bankruptcy petition can be issued against anyone who has a judgement debt registered against them of £750 or more and who has neither paid that debt nor satisfied the court that there is a valid counterclaim . |
| 17 | Ahead of them a match flared and a lighted cigarette glowed briefly like a small bright beacon , reminding them of streetlamps and bonfires and shop windows blazing with light . |
| 18 | This was what war had done to innocent children , not only had it starved them of food but reduced them to be scavengers . |
| 19 | ( q ) To remunerate any person , firm or company rendering services to the Company either by cash payment or by the allotment to him or them of shares or other securities of the Company credited as paid up in full or otherwise as may be thought expedient . |
| 20 | ( q ) To remunerate any person , firm or company rendering services to the Company either by cash payment or by the allotment to him or them of shares or other securities of the Company credited as paid up in full or otherwise as may be thought expedient . |
| 21 | that some concessions regarding ( a ) should be afforded to small companies so as to relieve them of burdens and expense that they might find intolerable . |
| 22 | The requirements were a thorough cataloguing of the ‘ things of the world ’ , the assigning to them of marks or names , and the defining of the groups to which they belonged . |
| 23 | Abbot Wulfsige , killed at the battle of Assandun , was according to the twelfth-century Ramsey chronicle succeeded by a German , Wythman , who quarrelled with the monks and accused them of disobedience and negligence of monastic discipline before the diocesan bishop . |
| 24 | Bernard Arenson , Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs , claimed that the relaxation had been made to assist the poor in Haiti who had suffered unduly from the effects of sanctions depriving them of jobs and wages . |
| 25 | She spoke of feelings but she knew nothing of sympathy or pity . |
| 26 | You know nothing of women if that is what you believe , my dear . |
| 27 | FOR TWO MONTHS we heard nothing of Isabella or Heathcliff . |
| 28 | The room seemed to speak nothing of Rose and everything of Bill — or was that , Greg wondered , just his own biased assumption ? |
| 29 | Thomas and Lynn were there too , to say nothing of Roger and Marina , if that 's her name , and the rest of them . |
| 30 | A sequence of six lines with the same rhyme are given to Dame Sirith as , initially , she professes her conventional goodness and innocence to Wilekin : ( " I am a holy woman ; I know nothing of witchcraft but with almsgiving to good men I sustain my life each day , and offer my paternoster and my creed that God should help those in their need who help me my life to lead and should grant that all should go well with them … ) |