Example sentences of "of [indef pn] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Algy said , sitting on a low tapestry footstool by her mother 's chair and putting her forefinger on Lady Grubb 's big garnet ring as if she were pressing a doorbell , staring up at the implacable old head and thinking of nothing but of how to get her to look at one of the two people in the room . |
| 2 | In part this was due to the recent unification of the kingdom ; he and his successors were felt to be kings not of one but of a group of kingdoms . |
| 3 | We were orientated on how to get rid of everything except on where to throw up ( because there are no rugs ) or what to do with it after you have done so . |
| 4 | The garrison , in spite of everything and without the assistance of the Collector , continued to labour between one downpour and the next to prevent their walls of mud from oozing back into the plain from which they had been dug , but the number of men available to wield a shovel had suddenly begun to decrease alarmingly . |
| 5 | More realistically , the papal Curia thought that when the full ideal was unattainable , it was better to be content with what could be salvaged than to be left empty-handed : the precise opposite of Anselm , who ( as he told Queen Matilda ) would as soon be deprived of everything as of a little — ‘ and I say this not for love of property , but for love of God 's justice ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Allen taught me it is easier to hide in front of something than behind it . ’ |
| 7 | I ca n't think of anything except for the biscuits because I 've run out of biscuits . |