Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So little of a reliable nature is known of Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's life , so prominent is the association of him with Aksaray that it is tempting to think that he passed his whole life there : such certainly is the thrust of the Ottoman sources as well as Melikoff 's article . |
| 2 | Stop thinking of her as another damn computer ! ’ |
| 3 | After her death , he 'd moved out into one of the back rooms , and Aunt Ruth — although she supposed she 'd have to stop thinking of her in that way — had taken the other . |
| 4 | The kindness of my Kildalton friends in thinking of me for their minister is encouraging as showing that no truly earnest , honest . |
| 5 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 6 | Thinking of them as numbers on a tall , thin clockface may be useful , so first put a large leaf into the twelve o'clock position and then one at six o'clock . |
| 7 | Instead of thinking of it as a zero-sum game in which one side gains what the other loses , they are beginning to regard it as a positive-sum game from which both sides may gain , provided both play with skill and finesse . |
| 8 | I was calling the L-shaped room home for the first time , and thinking of it as such . |
| 9 | It is not an entity or an origin , although the language we use may predispose us to thinking of it in those terms . |
| 10 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 11 | No doubt he exaggerated ( such was his wont where his conscience was concerned ) ; yet the only news she had received from Em herself had not been happy ; and now — to learn that she had suffered a miscarriage in that desert place at such a time of year , and that she had not felt able to share the grief of it with her own affectionate sister … |
| 12 | A good deal of it to the east of the Cherwell remains in use as a main road ( A41 and A4095 ) , the only important break in the line being caused by the growth of the Saxon town of Bicester , a mile to the north , in place of the now-vanished Romano-British town of Alchester . |
| 13 | Let me leave you there for the moment with my views of high morale as I saw it , and I saw a great deal of it during my constant circuit within the Command . |
| 14 | After so much walking , a great deal of it on cobblestones , her feet could do with a rest ! |
| 15 | One might add , however , that there is generally very little weather in most of Dickens 's country cottages either , although one finds a good deal of it in his towns . |
| 16 | No person acting under a proxy may vote in favour of any resolution which would directly or indirectly place him or any associate of his in a position to receive any remuneration out of the estate of the bankrupt ( r 8.6(1) ) . |
| 17 | This immediately puts the farmer on the defensive and reinforces the public 's perception of them as a complaining , dissatisfied group . |
| 18 | Like Julia , in the earlier book , Beth catches things ‘ on the hop ’ — almost as a student whose mind is more imaginative than philosophical will react to a first reading of Bishop Berkeley by quickly turning his head , hoping to witness the sudden appearance or disappearance of those external objects which are supposed to depend on his perception of them for their existence . |
| 19 | She had deliberately chosen an outfit likely to reinforce the general perception of her as Samantha 's frumpish maiden aunt — floral-patterned dress and plain cardigan . |
| 20 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |
| 21 | These , so MacDonald and Snowden told their colleagues , must amount to £25–30 millions , the bulk of them to be found out of unemployment charges … only reductions in unemployment payments would satisfy the opposition and resolve the crisis ; yet this would at the same time betray the hopes of the party 's supporters and probably split the party itself … |
| 22 | They live only in warm parts of the world , the bulk of them in the tropics . |
| 23 | ToolChest will be widely distributed initially to some 25,000 ISVs and end-user software developers , the bulk of them from Sun and SunSoft rosters , the rest from Unix International . |
| 24 | Everything about him , from the sleek black head to the jutting strength of his jawline , to the broad , strong , self-satisfied bulk of him at ease in the chair , announced that he knew in the fibre of his being that his touch was anything but abhorrent to her . |
| 25 | The agency won the business in 1985 when it snatched the bulk of it from Leo Burnett . |
| 26 | He must have taken the force of it on his shoulder , it does n't swing very smoothly . |
| 27 | Victor Wellington said there was a ring of yours on the dead woman 's left hand . ’ |
| 28 | administration of it in house |
| 29 | Then , only a beat later it seemed to him , shame and anger raced back to take possession of him again , and so overcome by these conflicting feelings was he that he had no consciousness of her in all this , until he became aware , to his surprise , that she was shaking him out of his stupor , bringing him to her again with her mouth and her hands . |
| 30 | I see , so that measures the speed of them across the screen this way you can time it . |