Example sentences of "[coord] of [noun sg] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , Thomas Brassey the railway entrepreneur , speaking with the voice of business common sense , observed of serfdom that the crop yield in servile Russia was half that in England and Saxony and less than in any other European country , and of slavery that it was ‘ obviously ’ less productive than free labour and more expensive than people thought , bearing in mind the cost of purchase or of rearing and maintenance . |
| 2 | The conversation ranged widely through wildlife management , the history of the landscape and of hunting and he was on very shaky ground there I can tell you control of pests , he likened a farmer killing a rat with a dog , to the whole panoply of fox hunting . |
| 3 | They feel you have to endure great anxiety and suffer a lot and of course while you 're doing that , you do n't get the work done . ’ |
| 4 | We do the shopping and of course once you 're laden with your shopping — it 's necessary to get a taxi back home . |
| 5 | so quiet and so well respected , he was so kind , you see , and so I 'm grateful and of course before I married , you see , I , we used to have three passes . |
| 6 | R.B. And of course where I was sat you see you were waving your hands through the air and I noticed it … |
| 7 | And of course where there can be no possibility of shared contextual knowledge , as in the case of unpredictable personal invention and interpretation , grammar provides the guarantee of individual conceptual freedom . |
| 8 | And of course and what , dear oh dear oh you go |
| 9 | That 's right erm and of course and they did n't have that little bit of luck perhaps . |
| 10 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 11 | and er you see and , and anyway I finished up my holiday and the sergeant said , he kept his promise and er sent me a report over the newspaper , you see , and er and of course and I liked the Isle of Man , you know , I went for trips around the island and various places and er , and I did see a Manx cat |
| 12 | Cycling in you know , and of course because nobody else wanted the job , sometimes we were supposed to share it with another , and nearly everybody else , except me , would be too big you see . |
| 13 | I was going to say that everyo ebs absolutely everyone is against war but not many people actually joined the United Nations after the war for a very small subscription or not many groups of people have many members in it , and of course because there were so few members in it , they a they went one particular way which a lot of people that had joined did n't agree with and so they came out of it . |
| 14 | ‘ They phoned about 10.30 at night , and of course because I had everything here , I was available . |
| 15 | He 'd send them then , he every dock was numbered from one to hundred and thirty and he 'd say righto , number one so and so , number five so and so and of course when they come back to the pool , they 'd go on the end of the rota . |
| 16 | So he went up and had a scan and they s they checked it and of course when they checked the scan they noticed that his kid one of his kidneys had n't been functioning for a long time . |
| 17 | Erm , yes , right , no we sha n't be losing it and of course when we decided , rang her up , oh great , so at last I can have my chair . |
| 18 | We go to the library , he goes round the library , he gets books out that he wants to bring home and read , and of course when we get home he 's not able to read them . |
| 19 | And of course when it got heated it used to blow and it used to blow all the burning debris all over . |
| 20 | And of course when it goes through they already have our our as it were |
| 21 | Well they did n't know and they to it were towing Julie 's car and the tow belt snapped , and of course when it jerked this car forward it cut the petrol off . |
| 22 | And of course when he was coming home in the middle of the night from afternoons , biking it and the one night they came he was coming home you know the finger post at Pelsall ? |
| 23 | And of course when you 're playing a lead role , everybody 's very careful that your make-up looks right and they come and powder your face and brush your hair before every shot . |
| 24 | And of course when you was er was n't on guard duty at the f early evening , course there used to be used to pop into the Peel and have a couple of halves or some would have a pint and there was a chap in , in the Home , Home Guard he , he used to be able to play the piano so we used to have a singsong in there for a social , you know . |
| 25 | That 's important and of course when you lose , really lose your powers of coordination then you lose the ability to look after yourself , you ca n't dress yourself , you ca n't feed yourself and when that happens it 's into a home and geriatric ward and be looked after . |
| 26 | very moving but we had a big big time and of course when you 're eighteen , er it 'd be an adventure . |
| 27 | Well the difference was like moving from purgatory into heaven really , because er in the Nissan hut I had one tap of cold water , that 's all , every bit of water had to be heated on a gas stove , and every bit of water for a bath had to be heated in an old fashioned er boiler in which you lit the fire under and of course when you came here we had a ni an electric cooker , er straight away |
| 28 | Oh yes , and of course when you have it for two days you ca n't actually guard your language all the time |
| 29 | It 's amazing how much we pick up just from listening to someone on the telephone , and of course when you ca n't see them , so you have n't got any visual clues as to what they might be like , what you hear becomes all important . |
| 30 | The strangest of stories ( And of course when I told her that , she just threw me out of the house , my own Mother … well , Goodnight Mother , I can tell you ) were treated as entirely credible . |