Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun prp] [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 He was at the garden party on Guy Fawkes Night in 1938 when the honourable member for Stockton , Harold Macmillan , burnt Chamberlain in effigy , and he earned the thanks of Bob Boothby later the same evening when he happened upon him making love to Macmillan 's wife against a turkey-oak tree — and went deaf and blind .
2 But the garrison , distressed by the revelation that Dr McNab had actually written a description in his diary of his own wife 's death by cholera , feared that in the case of Dr McNab even the caricature of a Scot might be mild in comparison with the truth ; they could think of few less tantalizing prospects than that their deaths should become medical statistics .
3 If a Savage Orc shaman is with a Mob of Savage Orcs then the power of their tattoos is enhanced still further , while the wild energy of the Mob increases the Savage Orc shaman 's own power .
4 The five committee members of the Literary Lionisers were subdued ; they had talked about the horrors of Saturday night incessantly the day before .
5 After the death of Lucius Titius , Publius Maevius again demanded from the heirs of Lucius Titius either the office or its price .
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