Example sentences of "and [verb] of [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary source of their superior financial performance is capital gains from acquiring corporate assets and activities that , under present ownership , yield less than their opportunity values , and disposing of them at their higher market values . |
| 2 | ‘ For cutting animals up and disposing of them in a public place . ’ |
| 3 | He seizes him and disposes of him in the river like the previous three bodies , and finally gets his pay , the wife being all the more glad for having got rid of her repugnant husband . |
| 4 | Pau retains a circle of Anglophiles who cherish the British connection and speak of it with affectionate admiration — not the most widespread of French responses to us . |
| 5 | I have already used the term ‘ boards ’ several times , and much will be seen and heard of them in book-collecting . |
| 6 | And talked of me to him . |
| 7 | I 'll have to spirit you away to my cave , and dispose of you on the white-slave market , just like wicked old Hasan . ’ |
| 8 | We will demonstrate your new machine , make sure you are happy with it and then , should you so wish , we 'll take away your old machine and dispose of it for you . |
| 9 | In fear she sat and thought of everything before her . |
| 10 | I remembered what Lili had said about brides being gift-wrapped , and thought of them in their boxes . |
| 11 | I read The Second Sex and A Room of One 's Own at the same age , and thought of myself as a feminist , although this had to remain a privately held conviction for several years more . |
| 12 | He told me how well he remembered my mother as a refugee in his home and how much his parents and grand father had liked her and thought of her as part of the family . |
| 13 | One answer to this could be that articulate Europeans , however much they differed , were formed by a common educational heritage and thought of themselves as Europeans when they looked at the rest of the world . |
| 14 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 15 | The villagers hold them in awe and think of them as men of the world . |
| 16 | As an illustration of what we are trying to unearth , let's go back to Muriel 's situation again , and think of her in relation to this exercise . |
| 17 | MOST Mexicans refer to the Yucatan peninsula as ‘ the south-east ’ , and think of it as a poor relation memorable only for its Mayan ruins and the resort of Cancun . |
| 18 | I think about the year that 's gone past , perhaps , people who 've passed out of my life , and think of it as a new beginning , and I wish as Scots that we would hold on to it and perpetuate that tradition and get away from gathering around the T V in Hogmanay . |
| 19 | We call it now , the Battle of Britain , and think of it as a great victory . |
| 20 | Abdu retained a great loyalty to his former mistress and spoke of her with reverence . |
| 21 | He was contemptuous of those who could think and talk of nothing but party politics and political careers , but his own talk ( and presumably his own thought ) was much about the penumbra of government and the idiosyncrasies of politicians . |