Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [coord] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time ever , my pride got the better of me and I desperately looked round for some means of defending myself . |
| 2 | After all those years of being told I was fat , I had the evidence in front of me and I suddenly realised what everyone had been going on about . |
| 3 | Well , when we say horrifying car crash what we really mean is that one of the two cars got a puncture and the other vehicle bashed into the back of them but you never know , it could have been worse . |
| 4 | His wife , Aunt Ann , was kept heavy with child most of the time , but she lost most of them and they only had the four . |
| 5 | ‘ Master Cook ! ’ he said , ‘ I do n't know what was in that flame pot of yours but it undoubtedly saved the day and many noble lives . |
| 6 | This approach characterizes much of the brief and rather shameful history of anthropology , where the study of Man has not been of you and me so much as of those other strange folk whose bodies , habits and beliefs were alien , but whose lands , raw materials and pagan souls were so promising . |
| 7 | Things just gradually start to build up and get on top of you and you either get more into the gear and try to forget about it , or you stop using it and try and sort out what 's left of your life . |
| 8 | His mother used to visit his older brother Simon and make a bit of a fuss of him but she totally blanked Nick and he was hurt . |
| 9 | " His dad tried to knock it out of him but it never made no difference . " |
| 10 | Yeah come here and mash up this place there 's like this five minutes of him and he just goes what you doing man , come here and mash up this place and then |
| 11 | Both these men became good friends of mine and I frequently visited their homes to deliver large sacks of fan-mail which came in from all parts of the country and the northern U.S.A. |
| 12 | Mr Sullivan said : ‘ The gallery owner , Martin Ainscough , is a good friend of mine and I always go to the private viewings because I am a big modern art collector . |
| 13 | erm He drew from the Bible at least one maxim , I think his grandmother was also in favour of it but he certainly was , ‘ Do not , or is it , Never follow a multitude to do evil . ’ |
| 14 | If someone very close ( a member of your family , for instance ) were to come into the room while you were in that state , you would be aware of it but you probably would not move or do anything about it because it felt ‘ right ’ . |
| 15 | That should have been the end of it but it most certainly was not . |
| 16 | There 's a family at Stafford as well , they live on part of it and they actually bought a field off I do n't know if you know the bypass at Stafford , the |
| 17 | getting up and coughing and wheezing and all the rest of it and they actually slept very well last night . |
| 18 | I 'm sure everybody 's got a different version of it and I really did n't witness any rows . |
| 19 | Good work , that is to say , is work that you do because you actually see the point of it and you actually get some pleasure and personal benefit by doing it . |
| 20 | And that 's where a lot of it and she still think 's that he 's |
| 21 | Another chap , he 's a big name in a church in Buckley he was a an old neighbour of ours and I never liked cos he used to himself with a bowler hat on they are only back twenty years , you know , bowler hats ! |
| 22 | I know you do it for the good of us but I still like to buy you something as a thank you . |
| 23 | As the dim outline of a beach was beginning to show , three huge heads broke the surface ahead of us and we nearly ran into three walrus . |