Example sentences of "of [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The serial strategy involved thinking of or placing your finger on an imaginary scale and moving backwards and forwards along that scale as adjectives were successively read out until a final impression was reached ; ‘ after the first adjective I rated the person in my head , then moved backwards or forwards along the scale after each attribute ’ or ‘ 1 . |
| 2 | I know this was the first time they 'd ever thought of or considered themselves as artists , before that I guess they just thought they were lucky . |
| 3 | I 'm sure that Ruth searches her heart , she , she may of made her decision lightly way back to go with Ruth er , to go with Naomi but not now , its a heart searching decision she makes , the choice before her , do I go back or do I go , do I go on , do I go back to Moah with its familiarity with all the things I am aware of or do I go on into the unknown with my mother in law and with her god Auper makes a choice and she goes back and Ruth had , Ruth says no and she makes the commitment and she says there , in verse sixteen , do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you , for where you go I will go and where you lodge , I will lodge , your people should be my people and your god my god and its those last few words that makes all the difference , your god will be my god , I will not be a stranger there , I will not be an alien there , I will be part of your people , and the only way she could be part of Naomi 's people was for Naomi 's god to be her god , that was the thing that kept , that was , that was the common denominated should all of Naomi 's people , because they all belonged |
| 4 | He still insisted he had done nothing to be ashamed of and said he had been cleared of wrongdoing by his ‘ constant friend ’ Mr Major . |
| 5 | We then take those kind of and use it in an ocean to create the state of the ocean . |
| 6 | The fact remains that most health professionals would still speak of and regard someone like Arthur B as an old man with a stroke , not a disabled person with rights and entitlements . |
| 7 | Up until now researchers have taken on the guise of distant experts who hand down their findings , leaving practitioners with the task of making sense of and using them . |
| 8 | Much later in the debate , and in time , the same " raw data " were transformed yet again , this time seen as the negotiated outcomes of actors " methods , particularly the police and coroners , for making sense of and constructing their courses of action which are only imperfectly , if at all , reflected in the figures . |
| 9 | b ) Family Membership — Please take note of and advertise our new FAMILY MEMBERSHIP which will be introduced in OCT. 1988 . |
| 10 | The great Italian poet Leopardi had this to say : ‘ Works of genius have this intrinsic property that even when they give a perfect likeness of the nullity of things , even when they clearly demonstrate and make us feel the inevitable unhappiness of life , even when they express the most terrible despair , nevertheless … they always serve as a consolation , rekindling enthusiasm , and though speaking of and portraying nothing but death , restore to it , at least for a while , the life that it had lost . ’ |
| 11 | The buck thrashed and spat and made a high keening noise I did n't think rabbits were capable of and beat its legs on the ground . |
| 12 | An important factor in avoiding pre-marital pregnancy would seem to be the girl 's own attitudes and behaviour in taking control of and planning her life . |
| 13 | When he put one on he sort of and pulls them down , erm to his ears so that |
| 14 | But to take some fact that a novelist has written of and to add it to the mishmash at the back of your mind and then to reproduce it as part of the web you eventually weave : this is the process of creation . |
| 15 | She ends by considering how teachers can create a classroom climate in which children can make use of and extend their own ideas . |
| 16 | In the final instance the golfer could simply refuse to work with his agent , who would then be faced with the problem of whether to sue his erstwhile client — a very expensive , long-winded and unsatisfactory process . |
| 17 | THE question of whether to use our own labour or contractors ' is a tricky one . |
| 18 | The band had a policy of not turning down any gig offer , regardless of whether playing it would be profitable . |
| 19 | Pragmatists maintain that such checks are not merely tricky but also always leave the same option of whether to accept their apparent results . |
| 20 | Model styles can vary considerably , but there are certain general points to be conscious of when constructing them , ie : |
| 21 | At this point in the theory , the Nirvana principle is conceived of as deriving its energy from the death instincts , and the pleasure principle serves these too sometimes , and therefore it loses its former primacy in the unconscious life of man . |
| 22 | Any pain you can conceive of as hurting in just the same way as yours hurt must be conceived of as hurting you . |
| 23 | Utilitarianism is often thought of as challenging us to rethink the ethics of the common sense of our society . |
| 24 | It would have been thought of as demeaning their authority to have to explain their actions . |
| 25 | We feel that we will be criticized if an old person is found in less than perfect conditions , and we will be thought of as neglecting them . |