Example sentences of "[verb] of [noun sg] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will let me know of course if you think it better to discontinue this when I start the new treatment . |
| 2 | We had only known Sinar Surya as a lumpish extension of the land — as dependent on it as a baby is on its mother ; now she had come of age as she surged south to a thrilling new rhythm , new smells and new sensations . |
| 3 | People say of Monsoon that he has a fortune buried in a burnt-out refrigerator on one of the many little islands standing knee-deep in the sea . |
| 4 | I could of roared of laugh when she won when Joyce won that raffle you know , all little bits of this and little bits of that you know , and there were a Christmas pudding on the , er , well you picked what you wanted well |
| 5 | Penry 's fingers bit into her flesh cruelly for a moment , then his face drained of expression as he released her . |
| 6 | All too typically I saw enthused teachers returning from training , armed with new perspectives who became progressively drained of optimism as they faced non-understanding in colleagues , shortage of resources , lack of follow-up support , and who ended up despairing and cynical about possibilities of real change . |
| 7 | Biogeography provides the most obvious area in which the significance of human activity should be particularly demanding of study and there have been two particular themes , albeit increasingly related , which have proceeded in this direction . |
| 8 | Ye only need about three goes of crack and ye 've got yerself an addiction problem . |
| 9 | She smelled of booze and I adored her . |
| 10 | ‘ I had heard of Genesis but I had never heard them . |
| 11 | Just after eleven , more people began to arrive as the pubs chucked out and so Dosh and I ( or maybe it was Freddie ) moved upstairs where we 'd found another front room which had been stripped of furniture and somebody had run a pair of extra speakers off the disco in the lounge . |
| 12 | To feed Mr Kronweiser false letters and die of laughter as he lapped them up . |
| 13 | When he says of Bilbo that he gave up the Ring ‘ of his own accord : an important point ’ , he may be saying only that Bilbo ca n't have become too badly addicted , or more moralistically that Bilbo 's good impulse will help his cure . |
| 14 | And so why have the MPs taken it upon themselves now , remembering of course as I mentioned early , that they are on a minimum of thirty one thousand pounds a year . |
| 15 | Agnes chose quiche Maxim had n't been in Washington long enough to tire of seafood so he took crab . |
| 16 | But there 's another another use of metals erm two sticks about say about one 's made of wood and one 's made of copper . |
| 17 | He still had the scar now , twenty years later , a long thin groove down the inside of his right forearm , as if he was made of candlewax and someone had run their fingernail the length of it . |
| 18 | His single-breasted suit was made of mohair and he flicked a trace of ash off his trousers with a perfectly manicured hand . |
| 19 | He tossed it aside as if it were made of straw and she knew she would be lost if he touched her . |
| 20 | Yes some erm some light , electric light fittings are made of plastic and they like bad fish after |
| 21 | Now it could be said of course that we do n't offer the same kind of very intense opportunities that are on offer to undergraduates , but in some senses , and many adults have testified to this , this is an advantage , because it enables people in their own time , and sometimes over a fairly prolonged period , to explore with a tutor , a scholar , the kind of interests that they have in the issues that have concerned them in society . |
| 22 | A man who tempered sentiment with business sense , it was said of Guillaume that he revealed the price of a painting with the same air of awed reverence that he mentioned a woman 's age . |
| 23 | Painting , architecture ( as its most pure ) , and literature have a definitive form or text , and although the same can be said of drama whilst it remains on the printed page , its conversion to the performing medium allows a great deal more flexibility than music ever can . |
| 24 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
| 25 | By and large , those who approved of conscription when it came did so because they believed that it was everyone 's duty to serve in the armed forces in any case . |
| 26 | ‘ His aunt would 've died of shock if she 'd thought there was anything going on . |
| 27 | By using this facility it is possible to create a totally new garment simply by combining pieces from other garments , providing of course that you remember to make any necessary alterations to ensure that the pieces will fit together correctly ! |
| 28 | Yes , the time of day will depend of menu that you offer but what else will it consider ? |
| 29 | Paulos is a professor of mathematics ; his book , he owns , was born of indignation and he writes with passion , tempered however by good humour . |
| 30 | Have always been interested in intelligence , escaped the germy epoch of Freud and am so bored with all lacks of intelletto that I have n't used any discrimination when I have referred to ‘ em … . |