Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not all : " And for the residue of my Thirdd parte of goods Remayning unbequeathed be yt moore or lesse My will and mynde ys that it shall remayne and bee for and towards the maynetenance of an usher to teache under the Scholemaster of Stockport for ever . |
| 2 | Lights the embers of my fool heart with this maybe . |
| 3 | People keep running into the back of my Range Rover with boring regularity . |
| 4 | ‘ I also want to thank all of my management team for their devotion and all the unpaid overtime . |
| 5 | Oldham has been mentioned , and as five wards of my constituency fall within the borough of Oldham , this matter very much concerns me . |
| 6 | The quality of my vision right at the edge of my retina is probably even poorer than 5 per cent of the quality at the centre of my retina , however you care to measure quality . |
| 7 | So up until then , being very cautious and a canny Scot , I hung the instrument wrapped in a piece of rag outside the window of my bed space on a nail , just in case somebody came round whilst we were either at school or the workshops . |
| 8 | But the thought that a credit card company — or some sleazy store — might one day reveal the contents of my shopping bag to the nation ( or , more particularly , to my husband ) fills me with a very real dread . |
| 9 | All the horror of my childhood experience with the escaped convict had come back to me , just when I thought it was safe to forget it . |
| 10 | In the course of my newspaper work for the Times-Herald I became Provincial Editor , a title which brought no increase in salary . |
| 11 | Says Tricia with a sigh , ‘ Forty marked the moment when I finally turned the magnifying side of my make-up mirror to the wall . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Forty marked the moment when I turned the magnifying side of my make-up mirror to the wall ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The wife of one of the guys who lives in Lowestoft had sent out a video of his son 's birthday party which also had a bit of my Help programme for Anglia TV on it . |
| 14 | I hope that I shall not be retiring too soon , but if I see out the rest of my working life as a Member of the House , I shall retire with a pension that should look after me comfortably . |
| 15 | I do n't want to think I 've wasted almost a year of my working life on an abort . |
| 16 | I attach hereto a copy of my DOS Directory plus contents of the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and should appreciate your guidance in this respect . |
| 17 | I was still gagging up the last few dregs when somebody punched me on the cheek , sending the other side of my head banging against the metal wall of the shelter . |
| 18 | So it was an immediate retreat to Fort William for celebratory pakora and a chicken breast curry , where I changed out of my walking gear into some jeans to look like a local . |
| 19 | Mr Nicholls did most of my church work for me . |
| 20 | Two different frictions made the soles of my life grate upon the uppers of my loaf . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's funny , I 've spent most of my life thinking of advertising as a sort of dirty business , but in fact the same mechanisms work : you get input from someone , you get inspired and you give back . |
| 22 | I loved you for thirteen days of my life , and did n't the rest of my life count for anything ? ’ |
| 23 | Nevertheless the ridding of my skin complaint by necromancy coincided with a shift in emphasis as far as my instruction was concerned . |
| 24 | As an Englishman I express my subordination to the political authority under which I live by paying a certain fraction of my money income to the appropriate official . |
| 25 | One Monday morning I lay in bed looking out of my skylight window at nothing in particular ; there was n't anything to see except sky because the window was merely a hole in the roof which you could open or shut with a long wooden handle . |
| 26 | So if I short er short circuit the rest of my cross examination on these various policies that you say er we 're in erm we 're in some measure of conflict with , your answer would be in in relation to E N V Eleven and E N V Twelve which you also cite , do I put it fairly your answer would be this ? |
| 27 | By the time I was ten , swimming had become my main occupation , and I spent most of my time butter-flying across the pool , swallowing large gulps of water in my excitement . |
| 28 | The stars of my age group in those days were Mike Powell and Mike McFarlane . |
| 29 | The pot-bellied tosser told me that the club wished to make a gesture in recognition of all I had done for the ‘ Stiffs ’ during my spell as manager , and after much discussion it was agreed that they could best show their appreciation by raising the price of my season ticket for next year by 25 per cent . |
| 30 | ‘ When I was a boy in Harlan County we were real poor and every morning I used to wake up and look out of my bedroom window at this mountain called Gray 's Knob . |