Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He successfully reformed the service on the Continent , setting up fixed and regular posts for the speeding on of the portmantle or packet , in place of the irregular messengers and carriers who had travelled the whole distance . |
| 2 | Once the action and reaction grievance-violence-remedy of grievance has been set up , it goes on of its own accord . |
| 3 | Erm yeah er mm yeah no I 'm quite intrigued myself about this , this idea that erm somehow it 's heterosexuals who trus who are trustworthy and that , you know , once you have a sexuality that 's different from heterosexuality then you ca n't be trusted with children and you , you know you , you ca n't be trusted to er you know I do n't know , run boys ' clubs , you ca n't be trusted in , in a , you know , it 's sort of , it 's almost like , like erm er it , it almost flies in the face of evidence that the vast majority of sexual abuse that goes on of one sort or another is , is heterosexual , it 's |
| 4 | The extraordinary stories of oddball training methods , holidays on the job , the wilful behaviour , the bringing down of star players . |
| 5 | Some , at least , of the graptolitic black shales are what we can recognize , with the hindsight of plate tectonic theory , as the deposits laid down of the edge of the continental shelf , in a truly oceanic environment . |
| 6 | The stepping down of the government followed resignation calls from all five of East Germany 's minor political parties , and from a deputy minister of culture . |
| 7 | The Forum sought to link the creation of the new government to the stepping down of President Gustav Husak , a key demand of the opposition . |
| 8 | Only that essential easing down of training should deviate from the norm . |
| 9 | Yet he certainly taught the relativity of earthly authority , and even that by his bringing in of God 's kingdom the Mosaic law and Temple cult ceased to be final . |
| 10 | Here a wide entrance , guarded by boarded doors from the street provides for the bringing in of Corn , Hay , Straw , & c … receptacles for soiled litter and stable sweepings are provided . |
| 11 | Trinity House was ordered to remove the navigation buoys from the Thames estuary ; the militia in the south-western counties was called out , seriously disrupting the bringing in of the harvest ; Essex , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between them raised 22 troops of cavalry who occupied Hounslow Heath ; while the foot from Kent and Surrey were mustered at Blackheath . |
| 12 | Here too they follow Richards , who used the same term to characterize the ‘ bringing in of the opposite , the complementary impulse ’ ( Richards 1967 : 197 ) , which he held to be characteristic of all great poetry . |
| 13 | And in this sort of instance , I mean Tidworth , with the , with bringing in of North Tidworth it 's important that we do have extra accommodation , the police are doing it within their , within their remit . |
| 14 | Over the eight years of the project the reduction in inequality between different socio.economic groups was consequent upon an improvement in scores attained at the bottom end of the distribution and not the levelling down of those at the top . |
| 15 | Rub down of the port intake area was underway when this shot was taken . |
| 16 | And how long w would he take t t t to thatch on of those then ? |
| 17 | And as if on cue , reports have just come in of tracks and sightings of live rhinos in two Sumatran reserves — Way Kambas and Berbak Game Reserve in Jambi — where they were believed extinct . |
| 18 | There were reports of other attacks to the north and west , but still no word had come in of Lionan or Mullach , and Murtach 's patrol had not sighted them . |
| 19 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 20 | Implementation is for planning and installing hardware and software , producing documentation and training , a handover to new systems and winding down of old systems . |
| 21 | Reports began to come in of successful strikes on other vehicles . |
| 22 | But erm no we there were , there were all sorts er there was , they used to come in of course from the country . |
| 23 | Er now after about two years , er you got more proficient and then , of course , you could also help with the stripping down of the waggons . |
| 24 | FERGIE may have found it difficult to learn Her Royal Lessons , but you do n't have to be a fitness connoisseur to see that she has learned a thing or two about keeping in Of course her title of the Disappearing Duchess takes on a different meaning now a year ago it referred to her ability to lose five stones of regal flab . |
| 25 | but the melt down of a cast-iron relationship |
| 26 | With democracy the keeping down of rebels is not usually needed . |
| 27 | Had the laundries been at the Riviera end all the detritus from the other businesses , the discarded vegetables and smashed fruit of the greengrocers , the scales and fish heads and guts deposited on the street by the two fishmongers , would have passed by and probably soiled some of the clothes as the intermittent hosing down of the street caused all this muck and filth to edge its way slowly down towards the Bay . |
| 28 | nip down of a a weekend , collect it and then |
| 29 | That car could not have tipped over of itself . |
| 30 | Does n't your outside tap come off of me ? |