Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is that industrial output increased four-fold over the eighteenth century , home consumption of it three-fold and exports six-fold . |
| 12 | Evelyn looked across at Rose sitting in the midst of them all but managing somehow to remain completely apart . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I remember enjoying every moment of it especially because I was watching my father . |
| 15 | get erm a preview of it so that i , er the day it comes out they can do a review on it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But I did n't like the sound of it much when she said it did n't , it was still weeping . |
| 18 | And the , several times I 've bought picture of them particularly because I have n't had to pay the postage , |
| 19 | There 's a picture of her here and er cheering Australians welcome the queen to Sidney with a banner proclaiming good day Betty Betty ! |
| 20 | I think you would draw a different picture of it here than you would in Manchester or the Derby area . |
| 21 | The temptation to park on top of them rather than beside them was overwhelming , but then jacked-up pick-ups do that to you . |
| 22 | It seems his effort , which is what has taken two weeks ’ — he glanced at Jim Donaldson as he spoke — ‘ to portray himself as the guy trying to help Zack , and all the rest of us here and there as the bad guys making problems , has worked . |
| 23 | I said yes , but filling all my early evenings with this would prove rather inconvenient on those occasions when I wanted to go out , so we agreed a system whereby I would do some of the work first thing in the morning and the rest of it just after I closed down the switchboard . |
| 24 | The decisions thrust upon you in November , though difficult , will prove the making of you rather than the breaking . |
| 25 | It was the shock of it more than anything . |
| 26 | I was only telling a colleague of yours today that the investigation into Mills ’ murder left a lot to be desired . ’ |
| 27 | A excellent example of his less than 100% commitment was at the Ispwich match when a ball flew across the box and he did not dive in after it . |
| 28 | But then when you do peel them away , whether you can have a potentiality , like the when talked about he talked about either side of his face timeless void that you had to see the limit of it so that you could have erm that that I was in this body and there 's something about this body that I 'm going to go back into the body and then that could differentiate perhaps . |
| 29 | It was a great number and they took notice of him even though he was just on his own . |
| 30 | In 1972 Hollywood suddenly sat up and took notice of him again when he had two consecutive hits , Last Tango in Paris and The Godfather , for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor . |