Example sentences of "[verb] of [pron] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A club notorious in the area as a hang-out for the criminally inclined was suggested as a place where someone might know of them or their whereabouts . |
| 2 | A spot of bonking is expected of one when one takes a bride , is n't it , Johnny ? |
| 3 | He shocks deliberately : it has come to be expected of him so he will oblige . |
| 4 | From Enid Blyton to Henry James , the reader has to appreciate that different things are being expected of him or her . |
| 5 | He 's had some more idea , he had no idea what be expected of him or anything |
| 6 | They had been Promotionaries , on their respective sides of the Wars ( which were not , of course , between Good and Evil at all , as non-combatants of every species always assumed , but between Banality and Interest ) , with great things expected of them once their training and indoctrination was completed ; but they had each done something silly , something which called into question their very suitability for exalted rank , and now they were here , in the castle , with a problem to solve and games to play , being given one last chance ; a long shot , an unlikely appeal procedure . |
| 7 | Day after day , she did what was expected of her and there was so little fire left in her that , when Mr Landor emptied a jug of red wine over a white damask tablecloth and kicked in her direction a cushion which split and sent feathers flying everywhere , she said not a word . |
| 8 | Constance , on her side , had become sufficiently worldly to know what was expected of her when she returned home . |
| 9 | The code of conduct outlines what is expected of you when you work in the Home . |
| 10 | There were no illusions about what was expected of us when we paid our £15 entry . |
| 11 | I have never liked any form of ‘ mystique ’ in therapy and always take great care to explain to my patients precisely what I am going to do , what I expect of them and what they are likely to experience . |
| 12 | Wherever we operate , we place great emphasis on talking to our community partners about what they expect of us and what we can contribute to them . |
| 13 | No doubt he will be reminded of us when he re-visits the Lake District ( one of his favourite haunts ) and it rains ! |
| 14 | It can be described as the psychology of absolute consciousness , seeing consciousness not only as an awareness an individual has of him or her ‘ self , but an eternal all-pervasive principle — the highest reality , with all things being manifestations of it . |
| 15 | He writes of them as they stay for waftage : |
| 16 | Just as we do not know what to do with our bodies when they are alive , disposing of them when they are dead presents greater problems . |
| 17 | It added : ‘ On average water services cost each household 46p a day for delivering 840 pints of water and safely disposing of it after it has been used . |
| 18 | ‘ It is important to know of it if you are to understand our lore , though I think you already know more of it than you realize … |
| 19 | But when Dr Neil Cochrane returned to the business of Miss Sally-Anne McAllister who had so strangely arrived in his home he was as firmly pressing of her as he was before . |
| 20 | See what you can make of it and we 'll discuss it later . |
| 21 | She wondered what they would make of it as she got out the vacuum cleaner and started to run it over the drawing-room carpet . |
| 22 | ‘ I can think of nothing that I would like less . ’ |
| 23 | I 'll have to try and think of something that I can erm to get it to go up . |
| 24 | ‘ I bought her those the day before she died , so 's she 'd think of me while I was away . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I look ahead sometimes and wonder what people will think of me when I 'm dead . |
| 26 | And only a fool would think of her when you 're around . ’ |
| 27 | Your voice and your use of language are parts of your personality but you must not think of them as something fixed — ‘ something you are born with ’ . |
| 28 | After rhapsodising about his wife 's ‘ pert , piquant , oh so pliable private parts ’ , he casually inquires what she would think of him if he had breasts . |
| 29 | Before they went to sleep , Marian whispered , ‘ You will think of us when you are his wife , Tess , and how we did not hate you , because we did not expect to be chosen by him . ’ |
| 30 | What do they think of us and our opponents at this moment ? |