Example sentences of "of [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But of course we know something about it , do n't we ? ’ |
| 2 | ( Of course we understood none of this really , we just thought she was fabulous ; when she left us , simply left us , taking only the jewels , we were terrified and had no idea of how to keep things going . |
| 3 | And of course he meant something probably rather different from what the popular meaning is . |
| 4 | Of course he knows nothing about my real desires . |
| 5 | Of course you know nothing about them . |
| 6 | ‘ If you have a bad result like we had against Norway then of course you need something like this tour . |
| 7 | It 's important , too , to remember to keep volume levels consistent , unless of course you want one setting to have significantly more oomph as a soloing channel . |
| 8 | And of course you meet something coming the other way wrong side of the road . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course it had nothing to do with the ruby itself , the real cause was their all being so insanely superstitious . |
| 10 | But of course it does nothing to improve employment rights for men or women who may be temporarily incapacitated . |
| 11 | The first thing that George found was that the work of fracture of wood was quite exceptionally high , although of course it has nothing resembling a dislocation mechanism to help it . |
| 12 | ‘ Of course it means something to me — but I know you 'll survive . |
| 13 | then you know I 'm not sure either whether of course I mean one would hope that erm the institute would have certain requirements about the erm practical period that you |
| 14 | But of course I said nothing — to retaliate would have been considered insufferably rude — and walked on , pretending not to have heard , while my aunt proceeded to pass similar , though less unflattering remarks on the physical appearance of my sisters . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course I know nothing about the process of childbirth , ’ she said , with an austere expression about her lips … . |
| 16 | And learning together as we 've been reminded more than once than this morning engages us all irrespective of age , irrespective of experience it engages everyone and it 's worth emphasising that the quality of learning does not depend upon the size of a congregation ! |
| 17 | Every time we save a bit of money we find something we have to spend it on . |
| 18 | During times of recession he did everything possible to avoid making men redundant , preferring that all should work short time . |
| 19 | For Euripides , understanding generated all enjoyment and creation , but at the heart of tragedy he saw something inexplicable and altogether " incommensurable " with the workings of reason . |
| 20 | ‘ When everyone started to sing Flower of Scotland it gave everyone a great lift . |
| 21 | I 'll bet , ’ he added , ‘ that for all your years of book-learning you know nothing about strapping on a pair of waders and getting out into the stream , feeling the water swirl around you — or how to bait a hook — ’ He pulled a small plastic box towards him . |
| 22 | The problem may not be so much that when we talk of God we say nothing , as that we say too much — we say things that seem to combine irreconcilable images that can never be focussed upon one ‘ being ’ . |
| 23 | And he had this two bags of sugar you know one that was and he was gon na light his pipe and he threw us and he could n't get off and it strangled him . |
| 24 | Of Merovech he records nothing other than his supposed descent from Chlodio and that he was the father of Childeric . |
| 25 | It is n't that God is unreal ; lack of commitment his made everything unreal . |
| 26 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 27 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 28 | A little later , she glanced again at the book and said : ‘ A side of life I know nothing about . |
| 29 | As a rounded account of the rise of Saddam it has one serious failing in that it pays far too little attention to the economic and social development of Iraq over the past 20 years . |
| 30 | Through the haze of steam she contemplated nothing much at all , and gradually felt some of her tension and wariness disperse . |