Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun prp] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holly struggled free of Bigwig and crouched on his haunches , scuffling his front paws and growling , as rabbits will when angry . |
| 2 | Not for the first time he wondered why it should affect him like that , when he himself was fond of Chuck and admired him , too . |
| 3 | Binkie Beaumont , the head of Tennents , was fond of Ken and wanted to give him a star vehicle — his part was bigger than those of Dame Edith and Michael Bryant put together . |
| 4 | She had grown fond of Betty and found her thought-processes amusing . |
| 5 | It was true that Ludens , though regularly visiting Pat , had seen very little of Jack and had scarcely exchanged any words with Alison or Franca . |
| 6 | Other societies had had similar social and economic systems to that of Europe and had not developed capitalism . |
| 7 | Similar proposals continued to be made in various forms in the second half of the century , though none was elaborated in as much detail as that of Saint-Pierre or attracted as much attention . |
| 8 | And I popped out to the shop on Sunday the second of November and came back totally and utterly bemused to see them putting a christmas tree up and father christmas in the window and fairy lights all over the place . |
| 9 | His deputy , Robert Forgan , had satisfactory talks with Neil Francis Hawkins about the amalgamation of the New Party with the British Fascists , but the grand council of the British Fascists voted against a merger by one vote in May 1932 after its founder Rotha Lintorn Orman , who was very suspicious of Mosley and regarded him as a near communist , vigorously opposed the change . |
| 10 | Wilson Moir climbed almost all of Goliath but ran out of ice just below the top . |
| 11 | I PULLED in to a diner about five miles short of Waldron and took aboard some fried ham and a couple of eggs sunny side up . |
| 12 | Officials compared the judicial statistics with those of India and found that there were proportionately several times more cases in Sri Lanka . |
| 13 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 14 | Our Lady ascended to heaven on the fifteenth of August and looked after La République . |
| 15 | ‘ I only said it because I was jealous of Jenny and did n't understand why . ’ |
| 16 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |
| 17 | For a time he offered his services to Louis VII of France and accompanied him on the second crusade as papal legate in charge of the Anglo-Norman contingent . |
| 18 | By 1963 the US had had enough of Diem and encouraged his overthrow , but the military power in the South was still in Deim 's hands . |
| 19 | Research shows that blonde beer drinkers were aware of Guinness and found the commercials unique and somewhat mysterious — precisely the image that PTGI was trying to develop . |
| 20 | The HSE 's review of the first year of COSHH concluded that most firms were aware of COSHH and had tried to comply with the regulations , though many had not gone beyond the collection of information about hazards . |
| 21 | We mailed the six packages recorded delivery on the 14th of January and sat down to wait . |
| 22 | In a Los Angeles Times poll in mid-December people were asked what policy they would support if Iraq pulled out of most of Kuwait but held on to an oilfield and some other land . |
| 23 | The climax of the sacrificial year was the Day of Atonement when the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies and offered the blood of sacrifice as atonement for all the sins of Israel . |