Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb base] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think of people , grand old British artists , like Turner for example , going on grand tours and coming back to Britain and going through , as it were , a period of painting where he is influenced by what he 's seen and heard and experienced in Europe , and then more latterly I think of France as being , Paris as being the centre of art and British artists going and spending their period in Paris and coming back and going through an impressionist or an expressionist phase . |
| 2 | Only I know of the old door hidden behind a crumbling shed . |
| 3 | So you start of with the normal counting numbers , and everyone 's quite happy and no problem with that , so we do something like seven add , let's say we do er three add seven , and what does that come to ? |
| 4 | The less you have of it as , for example , in a short face-to-face contact , the more difficult it is to impress and/or influence . |
| 5 | I 've just come to see what there is , part of the interest is to see the great bad taste of Robert Maxwell , no matter how much you spend of your own money or other people 's it ca n't buy you taste |
| 6 | Why we eat what we do and how much we eat of any particular food is a fascinating subject . |
| 7 | How we buy food also has an influence on how much we eat of it at any one meal . |
| 8 | So we think of number twenty eight first of all . |
| 9 | So we think of them as being descriptive , but in reality , if you 're going to say to somebody , you 're very responsible , they 're probably not going to know what you mean , unless you come up with a few examples of what you 're talking about , of how they 've demonstrated that type of behaviour . |
| 10 | So we talk of five hundred redundancies is totally wrong and I think erm in the circumstances calculated to give the wrong impression I hope I will urge that you do not accept the resolution and that we accept in . |
| 11 | The whole Godhead is involved in the rescue and restoration of mankind , and so we read of Paul giving thanks over Christians , for ‘ God chose you from the beginning to be saved ’ . |
| 12 | No matter how much they eat of their current food , they just ca n't get enough energy from it . |
| 13 | For example storytime might take place at an established time towards the end of the school day , but in a follow-up session the next day questions could be asked to see how much they remember of the story , or one child could be asked to retell the story they heard yesterday ( see Boxes 4 and 5 ) . |
| 14 | Transverse dunes seem to accompany areas of increased sand cover : basically they consist of wave-like forms normal to the dominant wind and are considerably smaller than the longitudinal dunes , normal dimensions quoted by Mabbutt being wave length 50–200 m ( 160–650 ft ) and height up to 10 m ( 33 ft ) . |
| 15 | Was after world war one anyway I mind of that , so say it might have been in the twenties he might have done I would n't say proper |
| 16 | Somehow I think of you as … well , as a mother , I suppose . |
| 17 | Thus we hear of ‘ those who muster in the plain of Kastollos ’ ( Xen . |
| 18 | But in English the concept of power has a physical as well as a metaphysical connotation ; thus we talk of " water power " , " steam power " , " electrical power " and so on . |
| 19 | Then you ask how it might have come about that the murderer made that mistake , and already , when eventually you tell of this from the other end , from the discovery of the corpse , you have got something that will require a reader to make a lateral jump to see what really happened . |
| 20 | you can write down these words , that would then be given you a clue things that you could be saying to your customers , where , right , if you start thinking about the job that you 're doing and I give you the word where , right you think of the number of times you can use the word where , with a customer , right |
| 21 | Still I approve of his wish that the next time round he will become a woman so that he can bear children . |
| 22 | The more I hear of this , the more I reckon there was a battle of wills between them . |
| 23 | The more I read of the early months of Nicholas MacMahon the more convinced I became that I too was rearing a prodigy . |
| 24 | I read a lot , Joe , and it appears to me that every man , even every thinking man has always had a different view of the same subject ; the more I read of men and their lives and their ideas the more I realise there 's no black and white in the world ; there 's good points to be found even in the blackest , and there 's some very dark streaks in the so-called saints . |
| 25 | The more I see of provision for the old , the more irresistibly a thought rises in my mind , which , however hesitantly , I will try to express . |
| 26 | The more I see of you , the more I esteem you . |
| 27 | The more I see of her , the more I realise how much of a stranger she is to me . |
| 28 | ‘ The more I see of you , the more I 'm convinced that we have a great deal more in common than being related to a tiresome adolescent . |
| 29 | You know I have to admit my knowledge of your country is abysmally small — but the more I see of it , the more I find myself falling in love with it . ’ |
| 30 | The more I see of Newsome the more I think he is crap ! |