Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think now of the way the shaggy but emaciated-looking , dull-eyed sheep who wander so wearily about the paths and tracks of the Forest of Dean find their way into the brick bus shelters on nights such as this . |
| 2 | Westerly Yachts of Waterlooville displayed their Typhoon 37 and an Oceanmaster , while the agents for Sigma and Moody showed a Sigma 38 and a Moody 375 respectively . |
| 3 | In Maus I , a friend of Vladek hands her baby over to strangers for protection . |
| 4 | Two risings under Henry VII followed attempts to levy taxes ; in 1489 the earl of Northumberland lost his life at the hands of a force of rebellious Yorkshiremen when he was trying to collect the subsidy granted that year , and in 1497 the levying of a tax for a war with Scotland led to a more serious revolt in Cornwall . |
| 5 | The Republic of Bolivia won its independence from Spain in 1825 . |
| 6 | He wrote a pathetic letter to his lord , describing his condition in prison where he lay bound with fetters of iron and beseeching aid from the Earl of March to secure his deliverance . |
| 7 | Since Charles figured in later medieval tales as the killer of Bernard to avenge his mother 's honour , or , alternatively , as Bernard 's bastard son , it is worth stressing that the charge of adultery against Judith is mentioned only in 830 ( Bernard is first documented at the palace in 824 ) and that no contemporary source ever cast doubt on Charles 's paternity . |
| 8 | At once , what the Sussex Daily News called ‘ a strong bodyguard ’ of Blackshirts surrounded their leader and deputy leader , forcing their way through the crowd until the main party reached a cafe nearby . |
| 9 | We , the members and friends of the World Association for Christian Communication ( WACC ) write to express our deep concern over the recent attempts by factions of the armed forces of Venezuela to overthrow their country 's democratically elected government . |
| 10 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , my son , who is a keen supporter of Brighton and Hove Albion Association Football Club ( The Seagulls ) , and who frequently goes to the sports centre of the University of Sussex to watch his team at their indoor training , was surprised the other day to see two figures distinctly older than the rest of the players . |
| 11 | Plans to convene a meeting in November were postponed after King Jigme Singye Wangchuk of Bhutan stated his inability to attend [ see p. 38580 ] . |
| 12 | But the Duke of Marlborough says his son and heir , who 's a former drug addict , has n't even contacted HIM . |
| 13 | The chairman of TVL shook his head and asked why . |
| 14 | ‘ I was thinking about what you were saying , ’ I told her , while memories of Nour flooded my being so that I felt I could n't bear it but must instantly take that gleaming knife and open my body to let him out . |
| 15 | A SHAKY pound and the prospect of Germany pegging its interest rates until next year took the cream off the market yesterday . |
| 16 | One chronicler noted with surprise that Count Baldwin of Hainault loved his wife alone and observed that such behaviour was rarely to be found in a man . |
| 17 | The Earl of Kirtlington found his tongue . |
| 18 | To help him do that , manager Graham Taylor 's best hope of Wright reproducing his Arsenal club form for England will be to let his free spirit roam across Wembley . |
| 19 | Jonathon Hymas of Stafford continued his domination of the Dacorum men 's squash despite the finest efforts of young pretender Robert Hensley , a student from Dartford . |
| 20 | Crown Prince Hassan of Jordon said his country was facing a severe economic crisis . |
| 21 | At a celebratory meeting at West Bromwich abolitionists passed a resolution of gratitude to Buxton while the city of Plymouth conferred its freedom upon him . |
| 22 | But at the same time we have been told that even the phial of Galadriel loses its virtue on Mount Doom , for there Frodo is at ‘ the heart of the realm of Sauron … all other powers were here subdued ’ . |
| 23 | Thus Barat and Haimet are nonplussed when they return in the dark of night , but Barat takes advantage of an absence of Travers to imitate his voice in the darkness and to elicit from Marie the secret of where the meat is . |
| 24 | Bishop Rede of Chichester rebuilt his manor house at Amberley in a new , more sophisticated style . |
| 25 | There can be no undisclosed principal in international law : any such claim should be dismissed as contrary to the principle of openness in international relations , and the right of States to select their treaty partners . |
| 26 | His familiar way of observing things from a distance while highlighting a small detail — described in a different context by Hardy himself when he wrote , ‘ If I were a painter , I would paint a picture of a room as viewed by a mouse from a chink under the skirting ’ , and by the modern poet and critic Tom Paulin when he talks of Hardy wearing his imagination like a miner 's lamp — was now enriched by the workings of memory and the passage of time on the original observation . |
| 27 | The 1648 Treaty of Westphalia saw its dismemberment and division into more than 300 individual and sovereign states and principalities . |
| 28 | 1360 The Ottilia of Talabecland declares herself Empress . |
| 29 | The later Lives of Aethelberht place his accession in 779 so that the suspicion must arise that this note is perhaps based on a misreading of a king-list which concluded by simply listing these names and misled the annalist into thinking that the kingdom had been partitioned among them . |
| 30 | Novell Inc Japan , which will be Univel Inc 's distributor there , is n't waiting around for the Japanese version of UnixWare to start its assault on the market . |