Example sentences of "of [v-ing] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After about five or six years of wandering I returned to Bradford . ’ |
| 2 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 3 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 4 | He refused to take the responsibility of letting me go with only fifteen , and intended to recall his men . |
| 5 | When she came to get me , she looked really pleased at the idea of having me working for her . |
| 6 | Devastated I may be , but I 'm damned if I 'll give her the satisfaction of hearing me beg for mercy . |
| 7 | Again I wondered at Edward 's way of making me feel like the useless son out of a folk-tale who had stumbled by chance into the hollow hills . |
| 8 | " Well , why the bloody Hell did n't you say so out there when we was with them instead of making me look like a bloody fool ? " |