Example sentences of "[noun] of [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had Nelson Mandela giving a rally at two in the afternoon on the steps of City Hall or wherever it was , and at three they had a colour photograph of him out on the streets . |
| 2 | I saw that photograph of you both in the paper . ’ |
| 3 | There was certainly no indication of it anywhere in the village . |
| 4 | From what I saw the other day , you already have a full biography of me down to the very last detail , even though you 'd missed one or two relevant facts . |
| 5 | She 'd seen no trace of anyone else in the village , and no sign of anyone along the afternoon 's walk . |
| 6 | He also studied — between Helvoetfluys and the Brill — the production of madder , Rubia tinctorum , used in dyeing and ‘ took some minutes of it down upon the spot . ’ |
| 7 | There was a flicker of something else in the shadowy gaze now . |
| 8 | My eyes were drawn to it as if the Officer had left part of himself here on the grass . |
| 9 | Returning to Iraq 's frontier with Iran , and to the part of it closest to the PUK heartland around Suleimaniyah , we may now look a little more closely at Val Fajr No 4 . |
| 10 | She made no backward glance to signify the presence of anyone else in the room . |
| 11 | " How strange it is , " mused Fleury , feeling the futility of everything yet at the same time enjoying the feeling , " that these millions of wings , with all their wonderful machinery of nerves and muscles , should be made to serve the purpose of a single flight . |
| 12 | When they get hold of me twice in the one day you say hang on I 've just given to you the bus ! |
| 13 | He moved towards and took hold of her gently by the shoulders , forcing her to turn and look at him . |
| 14 | He must have been well placed to advance from the re-establishment of his supremacy over the Picts in 672 to the imposition of it also on the Scots , and an opportunity may have been provided when Domangart was slain in 673 and his nephew , Máeldúin , son of Conall Crandomna , became king . |
| 15 | Self-evaluation , no matter how carefully the staff and governors try to be objective , lacks the valuable insight of someone genuinely on the outside looking in . |
| 16 | One thing in particular that frightens the business community is the possibility of an elected regional assembly for the north-west , with powers to tax , which would inevitably be dominated by the cities of Liverpool and Manchester , to the detriment of everyone else in the area . |
| 17 | One is to a large extent the consequence of something deep in the Greek character . |
| 18 | ‘ They said things of you out in the Indies … |
| 19 | Tony surprises an oncoming motorist by assuming a position that leaves his legs on the gravel road but takes the rest of him down among the lake-side vegetation . |
| 20 | For although Cabezón 's compositions first appeared in print in Luys Venegas de Henestrosa 's Libro de cifra ( figure notation ) nueva para tecla ( keyboard ) , harpay vihuela ( Alcala , 1557 ) , and the rest of them only in the Obras de musica published posthumously by his son ( Madrid , 1578 ) , no doubt many had been written as early as the lute pieces in Narvaez 's Delphin de musica ( Valladolid , 1538 ) . |
| 21 | I went along to Brigade H.Q The Officers and other ranks were looking just as knackered as the rest of us out in the orchard . |
| 22 | ‘ The rest of you back behind the campfire . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That must be why we have to stop the ceremony — to make sure he ca n't tap the mental energy of the congregation and use it to supplement the Old One 's autonomic functions enough to pull the rest of it out of the Vortex , ’ Ace finished , and sat back with a cheery grin . |
| 24 | That 's another stud of his all along the estate . |
| 25 | This poem foreshadows the method of the later , greater poetry of The Waste Land in trying to hold the most primitive and most developed in one by letting the former show through the latter and the development of one out of the other be seen . |
| 26 | The power of the platform 's weapons and the threat they posed was enough to give anyone pause for thought , but now they appeared somehow more lethal because they were unseen — concealed behind gunports which had been engineered to such fine tolerances that Rostov could detect no hint of them anywhere on the curved metal skin . |
| 27 | God knows how much there still is down there ; I 've seen great stacks and bales of it still with the Royal Navy markings on it , and I 've dreamed up any number of ways of getting at it , but short of tunnelling in from the shed and taking the cordite out from the back , so that the bales looked untouched from the inside of the cellar , I do n't see how I could do it . |
| 28 | It is not at all unlikely that at the conquest , Mehmed II appointed someone mufti in the newly conquered city ; and since the sources seem not to mention the appointment of anyone else to the post , it may possibly be that it was made an for Hizir Bey . |
| 29 | As it swung against the wall , there was a thud of something hard in the pocket . |
| 30 | I hope there will yet be occasion to make use of them again in the same cause , even if we must wait now for a better opportunity . |