Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pron] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of those of us who have n't had a heart attack live in fear of it obviously and think |
| 2 | This was an ambition of mine too but a busy working life restricted my activities , and since retirement Anno Domini has done the same , my total bag being no more than a meagre twenty . |
| 3 | Chatterton pulled their legs slightly and said they had better be careful not to get on the wrong side of you again and Glastonbury did n't know what the hell anyone was talking about . |
| 4 | They assault the sense , savage the palate , ravage one 's innards and announce themselves in loud , pungent terms so that one gets wind of them long before one catches sight of them . |
| 5 | I divided some of those files into sub-files and we have got rid of quite a bit of it now so you need n't be frightened of coming back to week-end working . |
| 6 | Much more cogent reasons for Ms Brown 's correct conviction are to be found in Lady Diana 's own words , which I quote from Philip Ziegler 's biography and which amply confirms others , just as forceful , that she used to me in the course of our more than 40 years of close friendship : I never responded to his dribbling , dwarfish little amorous singeries . |
| 7 | No , it 's the general audacity of the tax system , which was to , to ripe money of us so that it can give us we can spend our money on rubbishing layabouts . |
| 8 | Where they could , they increased the proportion of their wholly or majority owned foreign affiliates between 1977 and 1982 ( Contractor , 1990a ) . |
| 9 | The deposits produced by Vulcanian eruptions are similar to those produced by Surtseyan eruptions , in that they too consist of highly-fragmented material , with a large proportion of it less than one millimetre in size . |
| 10 | The doctor , however , acted in ways he found wholly admirable , and he thought that when he did get out he would apply his methods of handling patients — getting hold of them firmly and putting them into the right positions — to the positioning of his models . |
| 11 | When speaker A in extract ( 1 ) says ‘ Yes , it 's an enormous problem ’ , speaker B does not have trouble understanding the reference of it even though this is not spelt out ; nor is he perplexed by the use of yes followed by a totally different point . |
| 12 | It makes us look impressive , which we are n't because we did n't know the half of it either and had to look it all up . |
| 13 | The final list of goals for food change is obviously rather different from all the others because the aim is to increase consumption of something rather than decrease it . |
| 14 | This is that industrial output increased four-fold over the eighteenth century , home consumption of it three-fold and exports six-fold . |
| 15 | Evelyn looked across at Rose sitting in the midst of them all but managing somehow to remain completely apart . |
| 16 | But if the master has made him a bailee of them so as to vest him with exclusive possession , then , like any other bailee of this sort , he has it ; so , too , if goods are delivered to him to hand to his master , he has possession of them until he has done some act which transfers it to his master , e.g . |
| 17 | I know , but sort of none there and just all sort of down there , like sort of Brian |
| 18 | And we used to do these er pictures that u used to be on er grey and blue paper and we used to , with white paint we used to make a sort of anything there and then with erm charcoal sticks we used to draw on it . |
| 19 | I remember enjoying every moment of it especially because I was watching my father . |
| 20 | get erm a preview of it so that i , er the day it comes out they can do a review on it . |
| 21 | She had a crop of them now that she could n't get rid of , even though she was using that acne treatment that worked wonders for the girl on the telly advert . |
| 22 | But I did n't like the sound of it much when she said it did n't , it was still weeping . |
| 23 | And the , several times I 've bought picture of them particularly because I have n't had to pay the postage , |
| 24 | There 's a picture of her here and er cheering Australians welcome the queen to Sidney with a banner proclaiming good day Betty Betty ! |
| 25 | Of course , one has to be careful in this context to recognise that many of the infractions I 'm referring to are not necessarily offences AGAINST others — but represent errors of performance , imperfections which reflect badly on the offender — so that one undertakes remedial work , NOT for the purpose of making amends but to re-draw the picture of oneself so that it corresponds more closely to the one which one would like to project to the world at large . |
| 26 | I think you would draw a different picture of it here than you would in Manchester or the Derby area . |
| 27 | The temptation to park on top of them rather than beside them was overwhelming , but then jacked-up pick-ups do that to you . |
| 28 | On top of everything else that had happened today , this was just too much . |
| 29 | She was close to cracking up now , these final revelations had been just too much for her , she could n't cope with them , not on top of everything else that had happened today . |
| 30 | She did n't think she could have gone on handling this by herself , not on top of everything else that had happened . |