Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crowe lovingly arranged the wheel of her straw hat to cover her face . |
| 2 | Police withdrew the fine and three penalty points when Nichola , 37 , explained no-one was behind the wheel of her car at the time . |
| 3 | She was slumped over the steering wheel of her car . |
| 4 | Fifteen minutes later she was behind the wheel of her car on the out-of-city route . |
| 5 | Elizabeth was slaughtered at the wheel of her boyfriend 's four-wheel-drive truck as she desperately tried to escape . |
| 6 | A parttime member of the UDR who was the son of a representative on the UUAC was killed when a bomb exploded at a petrol filling station where he and his wife were making a purchase and , in a further incident , a bus driver was shot dead at the wheel of his vehicle . |
| 7 | An inquest heard how the accident happened when the coach driver collapsed at the wheel of his vehicle . |
| 8 | Her husband , Leslie was killed at the wheel of his lorry by two joyriders racing each other . |
| 9 | At the end of the road a boy was doing good business from the refrigerated box mounted over the front wheel of his bicycle . |
| 10 | Abu , as was his unshakeable wont , slept rotundly upright , like a benevolent corpse , behind the wheel of his jeep . |
| 11 | On Wednesday , a policeman found Mr Parfitt , 49 , slumped over the wheel of his car near Cheddar Gorge in Somerset . |
| 12 | Hasan hunched over the wheel of his car with a great effort of concentration , swinging it this way and that to avoid the atrocious pot-holes . |
| 13 | He dreams he is sitting at the wheel of his car at the traffic lights , unable to drive off because he ca n't decide whether to kiss Rose when he arrives , or whether to ask her for a cheese and chutney sandwich instead , or where to go for his holidays . |
| 14 | Rory , secretly , did not believe it , he held to his mother 's bitter view that Michael had been a feckless drunk , another feckless Irish drunk , who had died at the wheel of his car while returning from a bout of cross-border carousing in Dundalk . |
| 15 | She dismissed me with a jerk of her head and took the call . |
| 16 | She looked around for Rosa ; and sighed when Sabina indicated , with a jerk of her head , that she was in her room , and fuming . |
| 17 | ‘ The old girl left us in the dark , ’ said Iris with a jerk of her head towards the empty desk . |
| 18 | With a peremptory jerk of her head , and a wordless signal of command , Rainbow 's dancing partner orders me out of my subject and into the nearest dark comer . |
| 19 | She glared at himone short , singeing glare of her black eyes , and her hair swinging round the jerk of her head . |
| 20 | Then she caught her breath at the evidence of his arousal , but he stayed so still that , fascinated , she touched him , and felt the jerk of his response as she stroked and encircled his warm , hard flesh in an investigation that was both shy and bold . |
| 21 | We picked up these four … ’ the speaker indicated the four sullen captives with a jerk of his hunting rifle , ‘ slinkin' around armed to the teeth . ’ |
| 22 | The despairing jerk of his head to his Sergeant proclaimed that to Charles enough was now enough . |
| 23 | The man indicated the one in the far corner with a jerk of his head . |
| 24 | He dismissed the butler with a jerk of his head . |
| 25 | Him , ’ he said , with a jerk of his head towards Paviour 's house , ‘ he 's always scared of having things pinched , but the stuff in there 's mine , no skin off his nose . |
| 26 | ‘ Come through , ’ he ordered , motioning with a brief jerk of his head . |
| 27 | I kin smell pig a mile away , an ’ these cunts … ’ the sect thug indicated his captors with a jerk of his head , ‘ … got the same stink about ‘ em ! |
| 28 | He lifted one palm uppermost and for a moment seemed half swayed , but his scepticism reasserted itself and he gave an aggressive jerk of his head . |
| 29 | She watched him turn to one of the inner doors , his head somehow lowered , and when he reached it he looked back with an aggressive jerk of his head . |
| 30 | But he gave a sudden jerk of his head . |