Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That catches the familiar dictum that science explains particular events by generalizing and by making them cases of laws at work . |
| 2 | He recommended to them lists of books for the better understanding of their religion , and the advice was excellent . |
| 3 | If I had to select one of my pairs of binoculars for observations of nebulæ I think I would choose the × 7 instrument , though I agree that the more powerful binoculars can bring out more details in the fainter nebulæ . |
| 4 | That was my kind of deal in front of my kind of people . |
| 5 | Tip just was n't my kind of dog at all . |
| 6 | To do my kind of job on TV you have to be born with an insatiable curiosity about what really makes people tick . |
| 7 | My experience of women in love is that they 're constantly letter-writing or making telephone calls . |
| 8 | In all my experience of homicide in the courts … ’ |
| 9 | You could not properly take account of my experience of separatism without acknowledging my feelings of being swept away by this sort of fervour . |
| 10 | This letter is primarily to ask you to note my change of address to Rossendale , Lancs , with immediate effect . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you want me to oxygenate it for you ? in he asked , ‘ I know what I 'm doing , I 've kept fish for ten years.in He waited for my look of amazement at his expertise . |
| 12 | I looked round at the picture of Bruce Lee , the travel poster of Malaysia my dad gave me , my certificate of merit for Grade Two Saxophone , my 320 computer discs , my colour picture of an iguana and the tattered remains of a portable snooker table we got when I was twelve . |
| 13 | Oh but this is n't my bit of cheese in |
| 14 | My loathing of terms like depression and despair , he wrote . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr McKillop , I believe I 've had my fill of surprises for one day . ’ |
| 16 | But there are numerous instances which come to my mind of research in which all the problems of analysis were left until the survey had been done and then anything up to , or even over , a year was needed to sort out the tangled mass of answers to vague questions . |
| 17 | Mummy can I save my piece of cake for |
| 18 | As one white respondent noted in my study of mothers in low-income households , ‘ The bills come first , they 've got to , then the meters ( for fuel ) and then food . ’ |
| 19 | Nevertheless , I hope to be back in action very soon and continue my study of discoveries in unknown areas . |
| 20 | There are few examples in my data of interactions with small children . |
| 21 | ‘ First of all I wish to repeat my words of welcome to Bishop John Crowley ’ . |
| 22 | FIRST OF ALL I wish to repeat my words of welcome to Bishop . |
| 23 | So , too , may seem my characterization of physics as the study of simplicity . |
| 24 | However , even though it expresses my belief that you did steal the money , the distinctively ethical role of the sentence is to express my attitude of disfavour towards you for this act . |
| 25 | " If it 's not a success , " Sara said slowly , " I 'll turn my half of Moorlake into two flats and hope to keep one for a country retreat . " |
| 26 | Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created . |
| 27 | What she wo n't want to hear is that I am cured of the madness which kept me from sleeping at night and the imagination which played havoc with my peace of mind during the day . |
| 28 | And when she 'd driven Billy , a pimply second-year , up to my hall of residence at the start of his fourth or fifth term , I 'd been on hand to help them unload her Mercedes estate car . |
| 29 | I know how they 're supposed to work , I know all about the importance attached to establishing a rapport and initiating trust and building confidence and all that shit ( and I 'm almost flattered they have n't done the old good-cop bad-cop routine , though maybe they just do n't do that at all any more because everybody knows about it from the TV ) , but I really do feel something for McDunn : he 's like my lifeline back to reality , my ray of sanity in the nightmare . |
| 30 | Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability . |