Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Start from the layby next to the Dundonnell River which is two and a half miles south of Dundonnell on the A832 . |
| 2 | The town centre is a huge jumble sale : combs , mirrors , ballpens , lipsticks , exercise books , clothespegs , Chiclets , knickers , buttons , baseball caps , sweetcorn , dried fish , the Encyclopedia of Sex ( in eight Roneo-ed pages ) , belts , scissors , batteries , plates , machetes , crucifixes , razor blades , padlocks , strips of mango in plastic bags , everything well-fingered . |
| 3 | It will be overseeing the installation of a small-scale hydro-electric generating scheme bringing heating and lighting to the village of Mango in the foothills of the Karakoram range . |
| 4 | Looking back through the old progs I do n't see much sign of Forrester at all ! |
| 5 | ‘ It was pigs of majors like you . ’ |
| 6 | When the householders learned that the completion of the contract marked the start of Ron 's retirement after 35 years , they clubbed together to buy him a carriage clock and bottle of whisky as a thank you gift to remember them by . |
| 7 | At one end of the heavier door , now held up on trestles , Donald had hefted a stone jar of whisky into position and Donald McLaggan was drawing off cupsful and handing them out . |
| 8 | Freddie poured a measure of whisky into a coronation mug . |
| 9 | I poured a slug of whisky into the glass . |
| 10 | EIGHTY factory workers were looking forward to a very merry Christmas — until their boss gave them just one bottle of whisky between them . |
| 11 | The curse was only employed twice — once against the magistrate who fined my father £100 and took away his publican 's licence for receiving a stolen lorry load of whisky during the war . |
| 12 | Eventually the yacht 's crew was arrested near Bristol and we unloaded the yacht in their absence , taking off twenty four cases of whisky during a hilarious evening operation involving our respective motor boats to ferry the goods back to Poole Quay . |
| 13 | She got up and poured herself a glass of whisky without asking , and my mother did n't seem to mind . |
| 14 | He had an electric kettle , some lemons , a pot of honey and a bottle of whisky beside the bed , to make himself soothing drinks . |
| 15 | They estimate an average annual consumption of 15 litres of whisky per head of the adult population . |
| 16 | Some widows who have been moderate social drinkers begin to drink more during bereavement , in order to take the edge off their emotional pain ; but this of course creates more problems than it ever solves , so you should never encourage your elderly parent to start taking ‘ tonic ’ wine for her ‘ nerves ’ or a tot of whisky at night to help her to sleep , for you may be helping her to establish a habit that can easily get out of control and become very hard to break . |
| 17 | Hence the glass of whisky at the dispatch box rather than mineral water : A premature celebration ? |
| 18 | Turning her head slightly she looked at the cut-glass decanter on the bedside table — it was a little less than half full , which meant that she had drunk three … no , four glasses of whisky at some time during the night . |
| 19 | I used to get bottles of whisky at Christmas and so forth . |
| 20 | David Perry , 35 , of Buttermere Avenue , Orford , Gary Toony , 25 , of Kendal Avenue , Orford , and Steven Lea , 27 , of St David 's Drive , Callands , all Warrington , admitted the theft of cases of whisky at the town 's Crown Court . |
| 21 | The ongoing vigorous policy of offering paddock admission ( £7 per head ) at £10 per couple and Club enclosure facilities ( £12 individually , but £20 for couples ) , plus various theme days and a draw for a gallon of whisky at each fixture , will help to continue the success story . |
| 22 | If you have n't got a bottle of whisky at home or I 'm sure your mum can get one on the way in way in tomorrow ca n't she ? |
| 23 | I would naturally consider sympathetically any invitation to take part in clinical trials requiring ingestion of whisky for medicinal purposes . |
| 24 | He laid the pistol down and crossed to the drinks cabinet , pouring glasses of whisky for himself and for Carol . |
| 25 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 26 | Soon she was pouring herself a glass of whisky for breakfast , instead of a cup of tea . |
| 27 | You could buy salmon , which I suspect could have come from the King 's Reach skirting Balmoral ) for 2/6d a pound ; and there was no dearth of whisky for which I had yet to acquire a taste . |
| 28 | Lord ‘ Bertie ’ Denham , the bluff and genial Chief Whip who floated between the Lords , White 's and Pratt 's proffering a glass of whisky to any peer tempted to vote against a government bill , likes to maintain that there is no inbuilt Conservative majority in the Lords , and during the first two Thatcher terms the government did indeed lose 111 votes . |
| 29 | How do you forecast the volume and quantity of whisky to be produced now compared to the quantity needed in three to 25 years time ? |
| 30 | Peter and Nick were sitting on the sofa sharing a bottle of whisky with Sara 's backgammon board between them . |