Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [noun prp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the death of Lucius Titius , Publius Maevius again demanded from the heirs of Lucius Titius either the office or its price . |
| 2 | But the garrison , distressed by the revelation that Dr McNab had actually written a description in his diary of his own wife 's death by cholera , feared that in the case of Dr McNab even the caricature of a Scot might be mild in comparison with the truth ; they could think of few less tantalizing prospects than that their deaths should become medical statistics . |
| 3 | These contain layers of Gallium Arsenide only a few atoms thick and are supplied by Sheffield University . |
| 4 | These contain layers of Gallium Arsenide only a few atoms thick and are supplied by Sheffield University . |
| 5 | We take the mickey out of Mr Brown quite a lot , actually . |
| 6 | And was that sublime trip I made around the celestial skyline embracing the deep recesses of Cwm Llan just a dream ? |
| 7 | He was at the garden party on Guy Fawkes Night in 1938 when the honourable member for Stockton , Harold Macmillan , burnt Chamberlain in effigy , and he earned the thanks of Bob Boothby later the same evening when he happened upon him making love to Macmillan 's wife against a turkey-oak tree — and went deaf and blind . |
| 8 | I certainly do not share the view of Charles Plummer nearly a century ago ( when the fate of Napoleon III was still fresh enough to point an implicit moral ) , that Charles the Bald was " a typical Frenchman in many respects , intellectually clever but caring only for the outward pomp and circumstance of empire without the strength of character to grasp and hold the reality of power " . |
| 9 | Mother , on the other head , goes to Bernard of Anlaby Road once a fortnight , where she 's ceremonially washed , lotioned , rollered , dried , combed-out and lacquered for roughly the price of my pansy-brain shampoo . |