Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] of [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to know what had happened , wanted to understand the dynamics of the situation and to store it away as part of his constantly changing , growing understanding of himself and of those around him . |
| 2 | It was hard going , but as readers of her undoubtedly interesting although immensely tendentious book will discover , some progress was made , although so far as I was concerned with astonishing fluctuations in my popularity . |
| 3 | we had that photograph we decided to get lots and lots of copies of it well they still have n't come back . |
| 4 | We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time . |
| 5 | I think he was a bit nervous really he thought , Oh my gosh you know that these are one of the big pickets that happened erm what are the women going to plan next you know and he felt you know Tom 's you know felt a bit sort of out of control of it really I think he was very impressed with er . |
| 6 | We took a couple of photos of him again today . |
| 7 | Sally-Anne had a flash of memory of him just before their abortive lovemaking , remembered how dear she had felt him , so dear that she no longer saw his scarred face , but only Dr Neil , whom she loved . |
| 8 | Does he make a lot of fuss of her then ? |
| 9 | Heading south and with part of it reportedly burning , it threatened to have a devastating effect on the marine environment of the northern Gulf , which was particularly vulnerable as a shallow , largely closed area of water with little natural turbulence or tidal flushing . |
| 10 | Maybe with groups of us as small as sort of six to ten . |
| 11 | And everyone joins in this charade with talk of them now having time to do all the things they have always wanted to do . |
| 12 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 13 | All of those of us who have n't had a heart attack live in fear of it obviously and think |
| 14 | You can choose from shoals of them lazily circling in tanks near your table ; some restaurants even let you catch your own meal from a pond out the back of the premises ( ’ NO FISHING LICENSE REQUIRED ! ! ! ! ’ ) . |
| 15 | She considered approaching him and asking if it might be possible for them to spend more time together , but the difference of nine years in their age put her in awe of him still , and she decided it was not her place to make such suggestions . |
| 16 | The officials in charge of it still can not find out exactly how much some of the firms they would like to sell are worth — or indeed , says one , how many firms the state actually owns . |
| 17 | They 're in charge of it like |
| 18 | But in spite of her slightly forbidding looks , Mrs Webster was kind , if in a rather unimaginative way . |
| 19 | In 1746 , for example , William Grant , who in spite of his seemingly humble occupation of carpenter was the son of an Inverness-shire laird , chose a particularly inconvenient moment to take leave from the service of the Hudson 's Bay Company and return to Scotland , for he was promptly committed to prison on suspicion of treason when he reached Scotland during the turmoil occasioned by the Jacobite Rising . |
| 20 | Yet , in spite of his now professed Toryism , he continued to mix his poetry with social criticism and to the very end of his life insisted on making statements which show an intense involvement in the sufferings of the people . |
| 21 | In spite of his often trying demands , I came to admire Lance Sieveking as a perfectionist , and his dramatic productions were a source of considerable education to junior producers still learning the art . |
| 22 | Indeed , Ross thinks the moral philosopher must take the deliverances of common morality as his basic data ( as Moore , in spite of his much proclaimed faith in ‘ common sense ’ did not ) though this is because it rests on intuitions of necessary truth . |
| 23 | Therefore , in history it is not nature and technology which makes human society but it is man himself , who in terms of his already existing ideas and values , makes his own history , as he encounters nature and the problems it poses . |
| 24 | To his credit , he excoriated the lack of safety at the circuit , had the highest praise for the drivers who pulled Niki out of his burning car and did not even think in terms of his now enhanced championship chances , not only because he thought Niki would be back in Austria , but because he was honest enough to know that without the accident and Jochen having to re-start , he might himself have placed no better than third . |
| 25 | I have nothing against the Scouts , I 'm all in favour of them actually . |
| 26 | The following , recommended by the Law Society , is now widely used : In consideration of you today completing the purchase of we hereby undertake forthwith to pay over to Building Society the money required to redeem the mortgage/legal charge dated and to forward the redeemed mortgage/legal charge to you as soon as it is received by us from the Building Society . |
| 27 | Once the decision ‘ matures into validity ’ as it were , acts already done in execution of it also mature into legality because maturity is retrospective . |
| 28 | In view of her continuously rising urea and creatinine concentrations and persistent oliguria , plans were made for haemoperfusion . |
| 29 | It was tempting to ask , in view of his once held political ambitions , whether he had ever regretted staying in business . |
| 30 | He offered the pink blossom to his chick , who twirled it in front of her briefly lit face before dropping it to the ground . |