Example sentences of "of [noun] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Forest of Dean they also took housebote and haybote and a tree trunk at Christmas , under the supervision of the verderers and other Forest officers : they employed men to make some of this wood into charcoal and to operate travelling forges for the smelting of iron , and were answerable to the Crown when these workmen took wood in the forest to which they were not entitled . |
| 2 | In my 14 years of support I finally got to come close to her in 1991 at Wimbledon when she took time out to meet her fans . |
| 3 | Yeah , it depends , yeah it depends wh what type of system of support you actually employ er some systems of support burden tax payers other him er . |
| 4 | For a number of reasons they normally fail to reproduce , and are present only for the lifetime of the individual(s) . |
| 5 | To add insult to injury , he had even turned down paying pupils in order to give free lessons to Aloysia ; and with supreme lack of tact he even described how he had begun an aria for the tenor Raaff , only to turn it into one for Aloysia instead . |
| 6 | I drank fears like wormwood , yea , made myself drunken with bitterness ; for my ever-shaping and distrustful mind still mingled gall-drops , till out of the cup of hope I almost poisoned myself with despair … |
| 7 | He smiles slightly at the vague feeling of hope he now feels . |
| 8 | That was one line of conjecture she certainly did n't need to pursue . |
| 9 | In Hedley Byrne , however , the House of Lords considered that , for a duty of care to exist , it was sufficient to establish that the professional ought to have known that the third party would rely on his statement , Lord Reid put it this way : ‘ I say ‘ ought to have known ’ because in questions of negligence we now apply the objective standard of what the reasonable man would have done . ’ |
| 10 | This led him towards ideas of conservation of energy , and of a unified field ; he believed that light and magnetism must act upon one another , and to the astonishment of contemporaries he indeed demonstrated that a magnetic field will rotate the plane of polarization of polarized light . |
| 11 | The acceptability of wishes and attitudes is not based upon such conformity , though of course they normally lead to the effort to produce it . |
| 12 | Well , he 's also actually very smart , so I think that he will do something , but I do n't think that that kind of deco constructivist inspired pastiche of styles , all reactionary , adds much , but of course they probably think that just doing , you know , just being content with typefaces available in nineteen twenty-five ads , but I do n't know . |
| 13 | I 've mentioned one or two kinds of very simple films , but of course they soon became much more erm elaborate in a , in a simple way elaborate . |
| 14 | Of course they never came out and he was left with three digital watches which , in the cold light of day , turned out to be worth approximately 99p each retail , 30p wholesale . |
| 15 | Of course they never guessed . |
| 16 | It is criticized by the Tories and the media and of course they never explain how it works , so it is not surprising that the general public is suspicious of it . |
| 17 | Although of course they still cause considerable pain to any animal caught in them wild or domestic . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course they still have time and may be using that to prepare their case . ’ |
| 19 | Well , no , we are governed by our Annual General Meeting , but it 's not unrealistic to ask for double figures , because basically we were talking in that vein last year , and of course we eventually settled for 8.8 . |
| 20 | I do n't know if he left the King 's Troop and went into the First er Regiment Royal Artillery , but erm I went to Germany and of course we just lost contact . |
| 21 | PP : You had every right to retire if you wanted to , but of course we also had the right to try and persuade you not to . |
| 22 | Of course we also have to recognize that in the kind of world in which we live , it is possible to have inward peace and security and yet to suffer from various problems with our bodies . |
| 23 | And of course we never took anything off her like for |
| 24 | Of course we only support a tiny proportion of the proposals put to us , mainly because it is very difficult to create new and revolutionary approaches . |
| 25 | Wel it does n't get a great deal of publicity in the media , and of course we only circulate information about it to schools , so I 'm sure that the man in the street probably has never heard of it . |
| 26 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 27 | And of course we only spend a minority of our time actually teaching . |
| 28 | A certain amount of welding to make good the outer shell has to be carried out and then of course we only need 218 small tubes and six large flue tubes to allow the boiler to be ready for hydraulic testing . |
| 29 | Of course we now know that the intelligence Ultra was providing should have made the Allied High Command — too complacent and overconfident — much more wary of committing their lightly-armed airborne forces to Operation Market Garden . |
| 30 | Now because of course we now have more computers in society than we ever did before , and we do n't have lots of paper files before us inevi invariably , the information is being held upon the computer . |