Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Says singer Michael Stipe : ‘ The very weird religion of celebrity scares me . |
| 2 | Thinking of badness gave her one of her ideas . |
| 3 | Thinking of Bonanza got me on trying to figure his reaction if Vecchi got hooked for the Mahoney killing . |
| 4 | It will take a great deal of money to do it properly and I 'm only interested in doing it if I have the support to give me a chance of winning . |
| 5 | For example , a reduction in the cost of grinding and polishing plate glass was made possible by the float process , but it took a long time and a great deal of money to make it work . |
| 6 | When they meet one another , they gingerly caress each other 's long legs and only after a great deal of hesitation do they come to closer quarters . |
| 7 | We had a good deal of fun doing it . ’ |
| 8 | Certainly as far as Western Europe is concerned there is a good deal of evidence to support them . |
| 9 | It started with a piece of foolishness that could have got me into a deal of trouble had I not have had a wise check in time from the inspector . |
| 10 | But you understand that someone went to a deal of trouble to sharpen it , well in advance , and so must have planned the murder . |
| 11 | One particular candidate responding to the survey went to a great deal of trouble to commit his decidedly anti-headhunting views to paper . |
| 12 | Moreover , the ambiguous meaning of ‘ caring ’ , especially the unarticulated elision of ‘ caring for ’ with ‘ caring about ’ , adds important emotional overtones to these tasks : ‘ the dominant cultural perception of caring sees it as involving essentially female qualities ’ ( Baldwin and Twigg , 1991 , p. 123 ) . |
| 13 | McMillan was an extremely hard worker but a certain fluidity in his perception of time made him sometimes an unpredictable colleague . |
| 14 | Force of habit compelled her to stop and straighten the quilt . |
| 15 | My only desire was to keep these hideous creatures at bay whilst I desperately looked for a gap in the ring of steel surrounding me . |
| 16 | The way she smiled as she exhaled a first lungful of smoke suggested she fully intended her remark to be ambiguous . |
| 17 | It argues that in order to understand the geography of employment decline it is necessary to understand the changes going on in production itself . |
| 18 | He had been there so long , had been so doubtful — and , until recently , so indifferent — about seeing the outside again that the mention of discharge took him by surprise . |
| 19 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |
| 20 | This loss of influence made it fear the nationalists more . |
| 21 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |
| 22 | Forbidden suicide by his religion , he could not induce death by , for instance , agitating his pierced hands and feet until loss of blood carried him away . |
| 23 | Many are unfamiliar with , and suspicious of , statutory bodies , and limited command of English discourages them from using social service . |
| 24 | A special pathos is achieved when the poetry acts out the predicament of people whose all too expert command of language debars them ( paradoxically ) from expressing a common human sorrow — mortality , the fear of it , and its conclusiveness — as limpidly as could Williams 's ‘ widow ’ . |
| 25 | The vast bulk of delegated legislation is made with no reference to Parliament beyond the original delegation of power to make it by Parliament . |
| 26 | It follows that it is reasonable to assume that a unit of goodness can exist in the mind of man to aid him in understanding the origin of his God , just as the scientific unit aids human thought directed towards physical activity . |
| 27 | His low growl of pleasure told her she was pleasing him , and his voice was unsteady as he murmured against her lips . |
| 28 | Even in obeying ‘ Be aware ’ , the objects which with arousal of awareness draw me towards them also enhance awareness of themselves , the objects which repel also numb awareness of themselves . |
| 29 | ‘ Easy — a stroke of genius hit me at the height of the bombing , General . |
| 30 | Connie 's self-knowledge and her unspoken fear of cowardice save her from being a precious bore ; and writing the book in the third person , even though from Connie 's viewpoint , was a good idea . |