Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun prp] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd planned this summit carefully , and now the Zen of the entire thing had gone crazy , because just as Dad opened his mouth to start talking blood had started to drip into my lap from my nose as a result of Charlie chucking me into his drum-kit . |
| 2 | After the Anglo-French reconciliation of 1303 , Edward wrote to Marie of France thanking her for her letters in which she expressed her desire for a meeting and conversation between him and her stepson , Philip the Fair . |
| 3 | Then there was a tape of Jill sending me a message . |
| 4 | So they rode on through the twilight , the guides either side of Johnson soothing him forward . |
| 5 | Well you know it was one of those happy combinations of Johnny writing them , John coming with those fresh arrangements and me sort of the naivety and the joy of being in the business , it was so exciting and happy that it was one of those lucky things where the combination of the three of us worked . |
| 6 | I hoped a phone call late last night was going to be the chairman of Liverpool offering me the job of manager at Anfield . |
| 7 | and your bit of Ilkeston treating you well is it ? |
| 8 | Reflecting on the rise and rise of Kilkenny hurling he said : ‘ We struggled the whole way through 1991 , yet reached an All Ireland final . |
| 9 | In a wonderful and mysterious way , when God 's grace touches a person 's life , the ordinary is irradiated with the glory of Christ making us ‘ grace-full ’ . |
| 10 | The suggestion that er we should join this er , I mean first of all I think that 's if they would allow us to join it , and obviously we realise why they want to join this , rather to the Archbishop of Canterbury saying he would like to join er sit in his cabinet and , and , this , this that sort of level of discussion . |
| 11 | Seeing a smiling Mrs W of Grimsby telling us ‘ my beautiful Brand X kitchen was fitted in a day and is a dream come true ’ can be very persuasive . |
| 12 | The next anyone heard from him was a post card from the south of France saying he wanted to start a fresh life . |
| 13 | The use of silk in large quantities , such as , for example , in the crinoline , was the result of a petition sent to the Empress by the silk workers of Lyons asking her to help maintain the output of the French silk industry and not because Eugénie wished to overdress . |
| 14 | It was nearly dark when I woke up to the sound of Marcus calling me . |
| 15 | She snuggled down and began to drift to sleep , memories of Alain holding her here as she wept on that first day , memories of him bringing her up to bed after he had kissed her in the kitchen , fluttering like moths in the light , easing her into sleep . |
| 16 | A letter was sent to the parish officers of Kempston informing them of the gross impropriety of their conduct respecting the patient and the institution . |
| 17 | In 723–4 , soon after his episcopal consecration , Boniface received a letter from Bishop Daniel of Winchester advising him how to argue with pagans . |
| 18 | Her parents travelled home in the first week of October leaving her with fields enriched by the presence of a few dozen sheep and enough advice to see her through the cow 's first calving and the sow 's first litter . |
| 19 | The movie , starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds , is released on video for the first time on September 21 — with the original preview trailer and a deleted sequence of Reynolds singing You Are My Lucky Star . |
| 20 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 21 | On 2 November 1715 , General Forster , who had now received a commission from the Earl of Mar appointing him Commander-in-Chief of the Jacobite forces in England , led his somewhat reluctant army through Longtown and Brampton towards Penrith , though the Highlanders with him had cheered up , and become noticeably more loyal , on being promised the handsome pay of sixpence [ 2.5p ] a day . |
| 22 | Having always taken great pains over her appearance , the thought of Brian seeing her in such hideous circumstances appalled her . |
| 23 | Hari smiled ruefully at the thought of Craig marrying her and yet there was a sadness deep inside her , a longing that she knew would never be fulfilled . |
| 24 | But wha what 's y what 's your opinis opinion I mean you 're talking about erm the er marriage from er er er spiritual standpoint from a christian standpoint and here we have the man who erm if he became king would be head of the Church of England assuming it has n't become disestablished by then . |
| 25 | Londoner Dave Parris scored it 116–113 to the challenger , the Dane Torben Hansen scored it 116–112 Eubank with Ray Francis of England making it 115–115 . |
| 26 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 27 | No boats to Ballachulish for Glencoe but I island-hopped instead up Loch Linnhe and walked the roadless east coastline of Lismore pretending I was on a boat . |
| 28 | It came on a day of positive signs for the British economy , with the Bank of England saying it thought inflation would remain below the Government 's target of 4 per cent for the next two years , and cautious indications of a pick-up in high street spending . |
| 29 | But these rooms were much altered between 1865 and 1868 in a neo-Rococo style that was intended to blend with the 18C Rococo designs of Pacassi for the proposed coronation of Emperor Franz Josef I. In the end the emperor refused the crown of Bohemia deeming it too dangerous to accept it and upset the Hungarians . |
| 30 | Or maybe it 's just that Scotland is too familiar with lads from the back streets of Edinburgh claiming they have a license to kill . |