Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still had five , and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen . |
| 2 | Sure , the ambiguous title allows 30 seconds of salacious conjecture , but that double-bluff ‘ Ha ha ha ha ha ha ’ non-chorus scores a direct miss , and the sound of five men bashing around in the darkness in search of a tune merely drains you of the will to live . ’ |
| 3 | She tried to make allowances , constantly reminding herself of the responsibility Nathan was carrying and how long he had been without sleep . |
| 4 | If it was simply a matter of the operating system , I 'd have said that it did n't much matter which of the two you chose to go with . |
| 5 | His present celebrity is a fairly recent phenomenon , and he insists that it has not really affected him , although he acknowledges that his appearances on television shows and in magazine profiles have somewhat robbed him of the anonymity which still clings to his ‘ invisible ’ friend , Cartier-Bresson . |
| 6 | She wanted only to rid herself of the blocks Ewan had inflicted on her and lose herself in a new future . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd better apprise you of the situation to date . |
| 8 | Places on the workshops are limited so please apply Now by sending your cheque/postal order and the booking form opposite indicating which of the workshops you would like to attend . |
| 9 | They constantly warned us of the danger of the roads , about the thieves and vagabonds who dressed in green or brown buckram and played Robin Hood in the dark forests or wastelands we passed through . |
| 10 | For the remaining half-hour she would be pleasant to him , and then she would quietly and purposefully remind him of the time , and with gentle dignity insist that he take her home . |
| 11 | Darwin introduced new lines of evidence , but these were not enough to convince everyone of the superiority of his particular explanation , and the general idea of evolution succeeded because it could be exploited by powerful interest groups acting within science . |
| 12 | Over a cognac he gloomily informs us of the Japanese surrender . |
| 13 | An influence strong enough to rob her of the natural exuberant self-confidence that had always been a central , unthinking part of her personality . |
| 14 | This not only reminds us of the existence of a non-state section of education ( which as we write in mid-1987 seems set only to increase in size ) , but also in drawing attention to the relations between the state and non-state sectors , points out features of the conditions under which the former operates that are frequently taken for granted . |
| 15 | ‘ We should perhaps remind them of the dangers they run , provoking us to … retaliate ? ’ |
| 16 | There are stars galore in the operatic firmament , with , alongside to say nothing of the many famous names featured in the historical anthologies . |
| 17 | His glossy , clean , well-organized world , that acne-free world of snowy white clothes , gleaming kitchen surfaces and smiling , happy families eating , shopping , and playing together had none of the drabness , confusion , and dark corners of her own messy existence . |
| 18 | I am not expert enough to say which of the banding systems best fits the bill . |
| 19 | Enough to remind her of the consequences of submitting so easily to a man who despised her . |
| 20 | His ironic protestations — " " My wit is short ; ye may well understonde " " ; " " Blameth nat me … " " — serve only to remind us of the fact that here we have a court poet playing first the pilgrim-narrator " Chaucer " and then playing a churl . |
| 21 | ‘ Mortmain' , or dead hand , refers to the fact that the church was an undying institution so that any land which it held in fee ( or freehold ) was never vacated by the death of its owner or came into the possession of a minor or an heiress ; thus it would never revert ( or escheat ) to the chief lord for the duration of the vacancy or minority , so depriving him of the valuable rights of wardship and marriage appertaining to feudal tenure . |
| 22 | It is much better only to tell them of the happier events in your life : the progress the children are making and the amusing things they say , descriptions of family outings and news of old friends and neighbours . |
| 23 | So identify which of the files you need , er , would be useful , so that 's what this would do . |
| 24 | Through its Rules of Management , however , the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) had , at that time , effectively divested itself of the exercise of its control . |
| 25 | We have had a couple of occasions where the money can not be claimed back recently , so this is just to inform you of the position that the insurers are taking . |
| 26 | She was gabbling , her voice breathy and barely under control , because she 'd raised her eyes to his face only to find the expression there more disturbing than the casual masculine pose he 'd adopted , and which had already reminded her of the night she 'd spent in his bed . |
| 27 | However , you can generally predict which of the run-time errors are likely to occur and include a special " error handling " routine in your program to recover from them . |
| 28 | Perhaps all those years wasted mooning over Jake had somehow robbed her of the ability to give her love to someone more deserving . |
| 29 | By the time Edward III finally divested himself of the Templar lands , in 1338 , he had already resumed the alien priories for the duration of the war and was thus compensated for any losses resulting . |
| 30 | A few years later Clement V , formerly archbishop of Bordeaux , granted Edward further papal tenths , and thus relieved him of the need to tax the clergy directly or even to seek subsidies from his difficult lay subjects . |