Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 2 | I took the advice of my lawyers not to accept the £10,000 offered by the Mirror . |
| 3 | ‘ I have informed the editors of each of my magazines accordingly to give you a mention . ’ |
| 4 | The results of this tour , so far as the ladies of the party were concerned , tended to confirm all my previous impressions of their valour and vigour , and also to the strengthening of my determination never to undertake or propose any arrangement from which the ladies must of course be excluded . |
| 5 | It is no part of my duty now to give any thought to the making of my own soul or the righting of what I have done wrong . |
| 6 | I would wear extra layers of clothing and pull the sleeves of my sweater down to hide my white , numbed fingers . |
| 7 | Oh no it was a usual thing you know , anybody 'd go out of their way then to help . |
| 8 | It is for broadcasting authorities to determine what constitutes the appropriate degree of impartiality , and they must not lose sight of their obligation not to include in their programmes matter which is likely to encourage or incite crime or be offensive to public feeling . |
| 9 | They notified the applicant of their decision not to appeal by letter dated 23 November 1990 . |
| 10 | And when we say , or the A N C and democratic organizations say , that you need a five percent vote to cross the hurdle to get in to the assembly and then you , you , you 're a member of their parliament so to say and then what do we hear ? |
| 11 | His ‘ Wares had left their billets and accomplished the first part of the plan , leaving some of their number behind to allay suspicions . |
| 12 | So they send one of their servants down to force it open , but he never comes back . |
| 13 | Most claimants at the time of their appeal will be too troubled and hassled by the more practical day to day problems of their plight ever to have the emotional energy to study the nuts and bolts of the machinery by which their appeal will be processed . |
| 14 | MORE than 140 angry Liverpool City Council tenants travelled to Westminster to lobby MPs over moves to put the management of their homes out to tender . |
| 15 | We have a lot of people prepared to give of their time voluntarily to help young people get the kind of training they require and to help them find jobs . |
| 16 | But she had n't needed this reminder of their time together to bring back other , painful recollections . |
| 17 | ‘ Irrespective of its ability either to discourage certain forms of behaviour , or to bring offenders to justice , the law should delineate and prohibit behaviour which is socially abhorrent . |
| 18 | And Singh ( 1977 ) , who has been an important protagonist in the debate over deindustrialization , defines it in terms of the economy 's ability to sell enough of its products abroad to pay for the nation 's import requirements , and to do these things while maintaining ‘ socially acceptable levels of output , employment and the exchange rate ’ ( p. 125 ) . |
| 19 | DESPITE its cost-cutting and job reduction programmes , British Petroleum went out of its way yesterday to keep shareholders happy at the group 's annual meeting . |
| 20 | I recently took my beloved Washburn EA30 out of its case only to find that , somewhere between a local theatre and home , I 'd managed to lose one of the plastic slide covers from the EQ ; a tiny thing , I know , but unless you 're Superman , totally unnoticeable from more than a foot away . |
| 21 | This Coal Industry Bill must be one of the shortest of its sort ever to come before Parliament . |
| 22 | According to Dr D.W.F. James , the then Director of the Polytechnic of Wales , the government 's decision was a reflection of its desire not to rock the boat and was connected with arguments about the Welsh language , arguments which had already saved Bangor Normal College from merging with the University College of North Wales so that it could develop as a Welsh medium teacher-training college . |
| 23 | Directive , the court holding that in such a case the member state is obliged to make good damage suffered by individuals as a result of its failure so to do . |
| 24 | Blanche was still suspicious of her decision not to tell earlier of the quarrel with her father on the night of his death . |
| 25 | She had spent a lifetime obeying the rule of her childhood never to give way to her feelings in public , and like many . |
| 26 | Nigel was looking forward to the occasion and Gina had promised to be especially nice and polite as long as she could have one of her friends there to make up a foursome . |
| 27 | The pictures of her life yet to come were as vivid , and yet she could see no meaning in them . |
| 28 | It was a good hit , and she had to use all of her concentration not to go down . |
| 29 | I thought she 'd just popped out of her house like to have her hair done . |
| 30 | It was on the tip of her tongue then to ask if he had managed to dispatch the papers to whoever they were destined for , but she held back the question before it got uttered . |