Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun prp] [conj] [verb] " 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 | We were soon free of Calais and heading south for Paris . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had grown fond of Betty and found her thought-processes amusing . |
| 7 | On the other hand , there is nothing here to show necessarily a diminution in Offa 's enthusiasm for an archbishopric of Lichfield or lessening regard for Hygeberht . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The terms included clauses recognizing Richard as Duke-designate of Aquitaine and arranging a betrothal between him and Louis 's daughter Alice . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He refused to consecrate new bishops independent of Rome as demanded by the Chinese authorities from April 1958 , and was arrested . |
| 12 | The trend towards a more nationalistic variety of communism , independent of Moscow and resting on the approach of mass mobilisation advocated by Mao , inspired those Korean communists who felt that this approach could prove valuable for their own party in the future . |
| 13 | ‘ I only said it because I was jealous of Jenny and did n't understand why . ’ |
| 14 | During the night the Earl of Atholl , jealous of Bruce and foreseeing a probable English victory , descended on Gambuskenneth and killed the depot commander and his men . |
| 15 | By the time the eighth wicket went down the lead was already 264 , so perhaps it was unkind of Baptiste and Holding to hammer 150 in 113 minutes for West Indies ' ninth wicket record against England . |
| 16 | The Museum Documentation Centre in Zagreb has therefore informed the Director General of UNESCO and ICOM in Paris of this occurrence . |
| 17 | Such is its influence that no congressman can be strongly critical of Israel and hope to advance his political career . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They might n't win Brightside , adds Doreen , but they 're hopeful of Hillsborough and getting good returns in Hallam , where reigned South Yorkshire 's lone Tory . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |