Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [noun] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Max has to establish a relationship with the soldiers : ‘ He had quite early realised that part of their life depended on their being left to do things by themselves and not being interfered with . |
| 2 | If after the plaintiff has been harmed his damages are increased by his failure to have proper medical attention , this failure by him to mitigate his damage would have prevented him from recovering that portion of his loss which is attributable to his omission , and it is doubtful whether section 13(6) of the 1965 Act has a different effect . |
| 3 | The one who rides that horse of his like a madman . |
| 4 | Lowell , holding her , made little sense of what she was saying . |
| 5 | The Turks made little secret of their pleasure that the majority of the Central Asian delegations spoke in Turkish at the summit . |
| 6 | To ta just to make it look a bit respectable because it 's a church , they 're using that part of it . |
| 7 | I 'd love to see that example of his Collected Works ! ’ |
| 8 | He will come and live with her , inside her , his head between her breasts ; he is fed up , he says , with masturbating that head of his to make the phrases spurt . |
| 9 | It is noteworthy that Lenin — perhaps a more serious student of Clausewitz than any political leader produced by the West — chose to emphasise that aspect of his teaching which his ‘ bourgeois ’ disciples often ignore : absolute war and the tendency of violence to progress to extremes . |
| 10 | the nationalist offences so I mean that bit of it worked . |
| 11 | I admitted that I had n't quite got around to organizing that aspect of my life yet . |
| 12 | One could go on and pick many other scriptures , you know in the erm the New Testament not only were there those three questions that we mentioned earlier on about salvation , but there are three unanswered questions in the New Testament in Mark chapter eight , Jesus asked that question of which there is no answer , for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and looses his sole or what shall a man or a woman give in exchange for their soul , Jesus did n't try and answer , there is no answer to that question , then again in , in Hebrews chapter three , er chapter two and verse three there is an unanswered question , how shall we escape if we neglect so greater salvation , and finally one other the apostle Peter , he asked the question in , in chapter fo , first apostle in chapter four and verse seven seventeen for it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God and if judgment begins with us first , what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God |
| 13 | I sold that stick of mine long ago . |
| 14 | For a yearly payment of £5 he conveyed that piece of his estate to the Apothecaries Company , with one particular proviso : that every year fifty dried specimens grown there in the same year be supplied to the Royal Society of London . |
| 15 | Widely regarded as a principal rival and potential successor to Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhaven , Chaovalit had given little indication of his likely response to the Cabinet invitation which had been made after he announced his intention to retire early from the Army command [ see also p. 37188 ] . |
| 16 | Bringing that boy of yours , are you ? ’ |
| 17 | The ladies could make little sense of them in terms of their norms of dress . |
| 18 | Moscow was abandoned , but Napoleon could make little use of its capture — especially since nine-tenths of the old capital was burned to the ground . |
| 19 | Could she really disregard that side of his nature which was so repellent to her ? |
| 20 | If the nurse neglects this part of her role the amputee may fall and injure himself or lose confidence in his ability to adapt and cope with this problem . |
| 21 | His pain had receded a little , as though this latest bout of agony had overloaded some circuits of his brain 's pain-response centre . |
| 22 | Yeah well I was only in Gwindy for three years , then I went to Lewis Girls because I lived this end of I had to go to I loved Gwindy school . |
| 23 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 24 | Is it possible to see some photos of her at home with her horses ? |
| 25 | ‘ All the same , how long can you stay before you lose this job of yours ? ’ |
| 26 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 27 | Your mind became numbed to everything about human beings except that they pressed close around you all the time , that they slept above or below you , that you could never turn your head without seeing some evidence of their closeness — their clothes or their books or their photographs — that they made it impossible for you ever to be alone . |
| 28 | The profits have been in public relations for a long time but too often those in charge have refused to invest some measure of it in capital equipment that would improve client services and the daily life of their workers . |
| 29 | All the same , once he appeared to be actually enjoying this extension of our meeting , I felt as reassured as I was grateful . |
| 30 | English manuscript illumination , as we shall see , also developed some qualities of its own which were not determined by French models . |