Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The counterfoil is a record of me casting my vote and forms part of the calculation of the number of votes cast . |
| 2 | As a businessman , it would be foolhardy of me to pour my own money nilly-willy into the club and so I am constantly on the look-out for companies willing to risk investing in a lowly but forward-looking team . |
| 3 | Joe paused , contemplating the idea of me sealing my fate with such obvious enthusiasm . |
| 4 | I suppose it was a little thoughtless of me to allow my scalpel to flash and flicker quite so close to Rory O'Hagan 's fly buttons . |
| 5 | Her baby 's motionless observance of me observing his mother must have woken her . |
| 6 | And er she says like when I think of me keeping her child overnight and all before it 's in hospital and running down to hospital three or four times when he was in the hospital , and taking him sweets and all , and she says she 's treating me like shit . |
| 7 | I suppose I should be flattered that you gave me an ‘ A ’ — though I 'd be better pleased if you thought enough of me to send my flowers in person , instead of by remote control . |
| 8 | Brave of me to confront your dragon . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps it was unwise of me to keep my suspicions to myself . |
| 10 | But he insisted : ‘ There 's no chance of me changing my mind . |
| 11 | Minor thefts , for example , may not be reported as the victims feel there is little chance of them getting their goods back or of the offender getting caught . |
| 12 | But he was so scared of them getting his own father that he had given them no names at all , not even his own . |
| 13 | After all , most of them take their lead from our very own Golf . |
| 14 | Now I do n't know if you 've been brought up on a diet of men who jump in and out of bed with whatever women take their fancy , but if you have then I suggest you go find one of them to satiate your appetite . |
| 15 | All of them owed their existence to the efforts and generosity of private citizens and clergy ; most of them were similar to Joseph Watson 's asylum . |
| 16 | By the time students reach the stage of taking their final examinations , most of them know their subject pretty well . |
| 17 | These catfish have been bred in captivity in tanks containing African Rift Valley cichlids , although there have been one or two reports of them scattering their eggs in the substrate in the usual Synodontis fashion when no cichlids were present . |
| 18 | More significantly , it counterpoised the acquisition of land by the church — ‘ whereby the services which are due from such fees [ i.e. freehold ] and which were provided from the beginning for the defence of the realm are unjustifiably withdrawn and chief lords in respect of them lose their escheats ’ — with the good of the realm , for which the present ban is imposed . |
| 19 | One of them gets his timing wrong . |
| 20 | Many of them enjoyed their work experience in Picardy so much they are going back for more in their summer holidays . |
| 21 | Both of them enjoyed her lessons . |
| 22 | they have free travel on the trains , wherever they like to go , they have secretarial allowances , and some of them use their wives as their secretaries . |
| 23 | Researchers at the Tel Aviv School of Medicine asked 46 of them to take their babies ' temperatures and monitor their symptoms in the two weeks before the eruption of their first tooth . |
| 24 | The Argentines are still ethnically the same , the population still predominantly Italian , most of them havin' their roots in the south of Italy and in Sicily . |
| 25 | All three of them drank their cocoa with pleasure . |
| 26 | In this way , the organizational climate interacts with the men 's personal qualities to predispose the majority of them to define their role as one of community service . |
| 27 | I 've tried loads of different mousses but most of them irritate my skin . |
| 28 | None of them betrayed their feelings , however , as they paid obeisance to the Prince , who gravely offered his hand in turn to Mr Scrooge , Dr Marigold , Mr Weller and Miss Nell . |
| 29 | generally speaking the nation had good ears , they knew what was what and they listened quite well , hear you deaf ones he 's describing them and look forth to see you blind once verse twenty it was a case of seeing many things , but you did not cheat watching and Daniel , verse twenty five , look it says there a little phrase near , half way through that he took no note , the nation took no note of what was happening at that time , but we know what happened to them , many of them , thousands , a million of them lost their lives did n't they ? |
| 30 | Because they were overthrown and the others were taken off into captivity into battle life , and what a life they had , the one of slavery , so at that time because they took no note , because they were destiny instructions to Jehovah for his word and again want to see , they had eyes , but they just did n't want to see it they knew , all the whys and wherefores and what the responsibilities were , but they did n't measure up to them and because of that many of them lost their lives , and if they did n't they were taken into captivity , Jeremiah four , in verse twenty two , again another prophecy sent to them exactly over the same message , the same reasons describes to them as being a , er people that is foolish and of me they have taken no notice Jeremiah four and verse twenty two . |