Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [pron] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had Furlanetto done his homework on the great singers of the past , simply in order to try and absorb something of the tradition in double-quick time ? |
| 2 | He cared enough about his loathsome , drunken and violent third wife , Mayo Methot , not to leave her until he knew she had gone to the furthest extremes to try and cure herself of the alcoholism that threatened to ruin both their lives . |
| 3 | Napoleon marched through it on his way to Moscow , but today the road is used by those who wish to avoid the pressures of autobahn driving and see something of the pleasant , rolling countryside of Westphalia . |
| 4 | That remi you 've C Cynthia saying that reminds me of the other thing that came out in feedback . |
| 5 | This type of joy is not superficial , for it is a costly experience , gained only through suffering and sharing something of the crucifixion of Christ . |
| 6 | Lawrence has demanded a battling performance after a Watford defeat that reminded him of the FA Cup knockout by Portsmouth . |
| 7 | Polly pushed her arms through the webbing straps that reminded her of the restrainer her eldest sister used to stop her adventurous offspring clambering out of their prams and buggies . |
| 8 | By converting land into pasture for several years , the land has a chance to recover and rid itself of the heavy level of chemicals in its soil . |
| 9 | The child of one of her lodgers died in her house in April of an undiagnosed heart complaint — the tiny thing 's heart simply stopped as it lay in its cot — and though she was sorry for it and sympathetic to the last degree she was aware that inside herself she shrugged and felt none of the horror and distress such an event would once have caused her . |
| 10 | This would be a good point to stop and remind yourself of the kinds of situations and issues which have caused you conflict in the past and may be doing so at present . |
| 11 | Her hair had been re-styled and had nothing of the incompetent dye job that had once been her most eyecatching feature . |
| 12 | If we look at each of the consonants just mentioned and see which of the features each one has , we get a table like this , where + means that a phoneme does possess that feature and — means that it does not : |