Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was both strange and terrible to see the ghosts of each of my friends leave their bodies , then to watch those bodies rise and run into the nightwoods , in pursuit of their souls . ’ |
| 2 | It is the noise made by one of my sons playing his electric guitar . |
| 3 | ‘ For a short time one of my agents took his place . ’ |
| 4 | I just hope one of my customers pinches his orrery , that 's all . |
| 5 | Both her hands around my penis , cosseting it , restraining it , I licked her neck , the backs of my fingers prinked her pink nipples . |
| 6 | Sadly , one of my constituents lost his life in that tragic explosion . |
| 7 | Most of my guests enjoy their fame , but they have discovered that , enjoyable though the trappings of celebrity may be , there is a price to be paid |
| 8 | As a matter of fact , one of my pastures abuts your garden … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I heard one of my men calling my name . |
| 10 | Five of their friends followed their example and volunteered , making the celebrated ‘ Cambridge Seven ’ , who left for China in 1885 . |
| 11 | Do you have any idea of the number of Jewish organizations there are in my neck of the woods and how many of their organizers have my phone number on the kitchen wall ? |
| 12 | The Mason 's side will rue the day one of their players entered their own penalty area , as the resulting converted spot kick separated the two sides on the final whistle . |
| 13 | Lovers are the most sensitive animals on earth , though often the strength of their feelings warps their interpretation of the signals they receive . |
| 14 | They 're young and poor and the patriarchal culture they inherit and the conspicuous consumption of their contemporaries sanctions their irresponsibility . |
| 15 | The adenoidal whine of their accents dulled her hearing , and the smoke of their cigarettes made her eyes smart . |
| 16 | Burned by their experience of the volatility of the capital markets , many leading banks such as Bank of America and Lloyds are pulling back from the periphery of their systems to defend their home bases . |
| 17 | If the landlord prefers to covenant to maintain the outer half of all internal non load-bearing walls dividing the premises from other parts of the building and recovering the cost via the service charge , the tenant should ensure that any sums collected by the landlord from other tenants under the terms of their leases to maintain their half of the divisional wall should be deducted from the service charge . |
| 18 | If English is to be dropped , parents worry over the ability of their children to hold their own in the jungle of career-making , where a knowledge of English carries a premium . |
| 19 | Others had drawn their shawls across the faces of their children to shield their eyes from the sight . |
| 20 | Hamsters also show a strong reaction to artificial electric fields , and will change the position of their nests to avoid its effects . |
| 21 | The adenoidal whine of their accents dulled her hearing , and the smoke of their cigarettes made her eyes smart . |
| 22 | The desirability of continued economic growth has been raised by a number of economists over the past decade and the titles of their publications make their conclusions clear — Does Money Buy Happiness ? |
| 23 | But as the Sure Style axe fell , one of its salesmen continued his pitch while a retired docker , Edward Donnelly , plugged himself into a lung machine for vital treatment . |
| 24 | The present Constitution promulgated in April 1973 provides for a parliamentary system and a bicameral federal legislature consisting of a 217-member lower house ( the National Assembly ) elected every five years and an 87-member upper house ( the Senate ) elected every six years , with one-third of its members relinquishing their seats every two years . |
| 25 | At Camberwell Bobby Hunt formed the Bob Hunt 's Ragtime Band ( Bobby on trumpet , Oska on trombone , Monty Sunshine on clarinet , Terry Arthurs on piano and Denis ( ‘ Pip ’ ) Piper on a one-string bass made out of a wooden box and a broomhandle ) and which rehearsed at lunchtime in the pottery room , Minton helping some of its members to buy their instruments . |
| 26 | A company may by a special resolution of its members alter its memorandum with respect to the statements of its objects , subject to the power of the court to cancel the alteration . |
| 27 | At the OK Corral — as she preferred to call what some of its visitors termed her quim ( the phrase struck her as useful after she 'd seen the Western ) — some men proved themselves and others came to grief , and both kinds had male competitors on their mind and wanted to outgun them . |
| 28 | One piece of equipment I really liked on the Mercedes was the wiper system — a single arm that dips in the middle of its strokes to maximise its sweep . |
| 29 | ‘ We must beware lest unscrupulous people exploit these areas of misunderstanding and divert our attention from the really important task , which is our common defence of the kind of freedoms we hold so dear : the freedoms for which this noble university so proudly stands and for which so many of its sons gave their lives in foreign fields . ’ |
| 30 | It is relatively easy for a court using the formal language of keeping a body within the four corners of its powers to impose its own view as to what the authority should have done . |