Example sentences of "of [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It spent four weeks at the top of Off the Record 's local artists chart last summer and after a recent re-release , sales topped 1000 . |
| 2 | In those days — we 're talking 1890 to about 1915 — there were hundreds of different brands and varieties of guitars being made in the United States , but it 's hard to say for sure that any of them were actually distributed in Hawaii — it was kind of off the beaten track . |
| 3 | She 's had a lot of off me today . |
| 4 | Well , I did n't mind it was quite interesting , for one thing erm we were sort of off the beaten track here and although we 're in the town you might say , we 're out of it , we 're in the country are n't we ? |
| 5 | I mean it 's going in and out at the right places but it 's also to do with childbearing O K. So George is changing the subject there completely kind of off the wall is n't he , er this comment ? |
| 6 | you know that s some do n't really have a great deal of problem , others really do have a sort of off work for two or three days every month and it 's not a bundle of laughs because , you know , that really must be difficult , but they , they get a rough idea of how it for them |
| 7 | She 's asked for the icing of off our cake not our cake and she 's not having it . |
| 8 | and of course her mum moved to Cornwall and Deborah bought the house of off her , a bit cheaper than they would have bought on the they moved down to Cornwall and they bought a much smaller house , much , much smaller . |
| 9 | In the early days of Soviet rule it was not unheard of for remote journals to attack Izvestiia and the Central Committee . |
| 10 | This landlocked location is n't the first place you 'd think of for a diving school but the Diver Training College is proving to be very popular . |
| 11 | It is by no means unheard of for a band to be offered a deal on nothing more than a ‘ concept ’ . |
| 12 | The best method the Mafia can think of for distributing its heroin in America is a chain of pizza parlours , where the sons of top mafiosi are frequently offered jobs as a favour to their fathers . |
| 13 | Nigel did n't get any attention to speak of for the rest of that day . |
| 14 | There is also the name Angel Kirvor , which was the first pseudonym we thought of for our combined poems . |
| 15 | And the pretty new mugs were a symbol , something Dorothea would never have found or thought of for herself , for they were hand-thrown pottery , and she had always been brought up to fine-spun china . |
| 16 | The streets are full of For Sale notices , although close inspection shows they refer to repossessions in which Southend is the third worst case in the country outside London ; the local paper carries two pages of bankruptcy notices a week . |
| 17 | Our laws will give all the guarantees one can think of for any democratic country . ’ |
| 18 | In 1984 he had nothing left to prove — he was successful , shooting stock shots for The Image Bank , which he 'd been a director of for six years . |
| 19 | No one in the CRA delegation understood that it was unheard of for a non-Unionist procession to enter that area . |
| 20 | Although Dionysius ' system was the origin of the AD sequence that we now employ , it was not made use of for nearly 200 years , the oldest known work in which it is employed being Bede 's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation , of the early eighth century . |
| 21 | Riding 's governing bodies should be paying more attention to clothing as ‘ equipment ’ important for safety and performance instead of for appearance 's sake . |
| 22 | We had not seen a town to speak of for almost two weeks . |
| 23 | … to ensure that redundancy is not used as a pretext for getting rid of employees which some manager wishes to get rid of for some quite other reasons , eg … by reason of personal dislike . |
| 24 | When cooking , many people check the contents of for example bottles and packages by smelling or tasting them . |
| 25 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 26 | This type of machine was used for the digital sound recordings made by the Nippon Columbia company in 1972 , instead of for video . |
| 27 | Perhaps you can wrap fish and chips in computer output , but that , it seems to me , is the only asset I can think of for ordinary domestic life . |
| 28 | It 's the only reason I can think of for her to get so much wrong . |
| 29 | It is almost unheard of for anything to be marked with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 30 | The most obvious , though inadequate , analogy I could think of for my situation was to be a light-skinned black person who identified with white people all her life , who had ‘ passed ’ as a white person for years and who had suddenly discovered the reality of Black Power . |