Example sentences of "of [noun] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Forest of Dean they also took housebote and haybote and a tree trunk at Christmas , under the supervision of the verderers and other Forest officers : they employed men to make some of this wood into charcoal and to operate travelling forges for the smelting of iron , and were answerable to the Crown when these workmen took wood in the forest to which they were not entitled . |
| 2 | David Speedy 's goal enough to get all three points for Leicester and I think on the balance of play they just about edged it but Forest put up a marvellous performance in the second half especially when they had to make er changes and things did n't go well for them . |
| 3 | In my 14 years of support I finally got to come close to her in 1991 at Wimbledon when she took time out to meet her fans . |
| 4 | Yeah , it depends , yeah it depends wh what type of system of support you actually employ er some systems of support burden tax payers other him er . |
| 5 | For a number of reasons they normally fail to reproduce , and are present only for the lifetime of the individual(s) . |
| 6 | To add insult to injury , he had even turned down paying pupils in order to give free lessons to Aloysia ; and with supreme lack of tact he even described how he had begun an aria for the tenor Raaff , only to turn it into one for Aloysia instead . |
| 7 | I drank fears like wormwood , yea , made myself drunken with bitterness ; for my ever-shaping and distrustful mind still mingled gall-drops , till out of the cup of hope I almost poisoned myself with despair … |
| 8 | He smiles slightly at the vague feeling of hope he now feels . |
| 9 | That was one line of conjecture she certainly did n't need to pursue . |
| 10 | Then when he wanted it to go again he used to get the th the belt , the leather belt , and er sort of hook it on to the lower end of the cast iron pulley and follow it round until it went on . |
| 11 | for a short period of time which will have the same affect of building it up over the twenty five year period and you can use the money for er er other things . |
| 12 | Broadly speaking , they fell into two groups : those who identified with countries where right-wing totalitarianism was in power , such as Germany , Italy or Portugal ; and those who revered the kind of conservatism they most readily associated with the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | In Hedley Byrne , however , the House of Lords considered that , for a duty of care to exist , it was sufficient to establish that the professional ought to have known that the third party would rely on his statement , Lord Reid put it this way : ‘ I say ‘ ought to have known ’ because in questions of negligence we now apply the objective standard of what the reasonable man would have done . ’ |
| 14 | This led him towards ideas of conservation of energy , and of a unified field ; he believed that light and magnetism must act upon one another , and to the astonishment of contemporaries he indeed demonstrated that a magnetic field will rotate the plane of polarization of polarized light . |
| 15 | Or you can simply sabotage the thing by coughing loudly and exploding all over the place and then of course they simply ca n't use it . |
| 16 | The acceptability of wishes and attitudes is not based upon such conformity , though of course they normally lead to the effort to produce it . |
| 17 | Of course they not only reflect ageism in society but help to reinforce it and make it acceptable . |
| 18 | Well , he 's also actually very smart , so I think that he will do something , but I do n't think that that kind of deco constructivist inspired pastiche of styles , all reactionary , adds much , but of course they probably think that just doing , you know , just being content with typefaces available in nineteen twenty-five ads , but I do n't know . |
| 19 | I 've mentioned one or two kinds of very simple films , but of course they soon became much more erm elaborate in a , in a simple way elaborate . |
| 20 | Of course they really were avoiding me , but at the time I thought it was true and it sounded great ! ’ |
| 21 | Of course they never guessed . |
| 22 | It is criticized by the Tories and the media and of course they never explain how it works , so it is not surprising that the general public is suspicious of it . |
| 23 | Of course they never came out and he was left with three digital watches which , in the cold light of day , turned out to be worth approximately 99p each retail , 30p wholesale . |
| 24 | Although of course they still cause considerable pain to any animal caught in them wild or domestic . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course they still have time and may be using that to prepare their case . ’ |
| 26 | Well , no , we are governed by our Annual General Meeting , but it 's not unrealistic to ask for double figures , because basically we were talking in that vein last year , and of course we eventually settled for 8.8 . |
| 27 | I do n't know if he left the King 's Troop and went into the First er Regiment Royal Artillery , but erm I went to Germany and of course we just lost contact . |
| 28 | Of course we also have to recognize that in the kind of world in which we live , it is possible to have inward peace and security and yet to suffer from various problems with our bodies . |
| 29 | PP : You had every right to retire if you wanted to , but of course we also had the right to try and persuade you not to . |
| 30 | Cheaper to us , erm the trouble with it is of course we never actually add it in . |