Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [adj] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mains water tap was found to be turned on , and I gradually became aware of warmth emanating from the living room fireplace . |
| 2 | I once learned all of Iago in three days when I was in rep . ’ |
| 3 | I always find much of interest in each issue as it reaches me and if I do criticise from time to time , this is meant to be constructive and helpful . |
| 4 | You know I never thought much of religion ? |
| 5 | That ribbon of distress had knotted itself about her , tightening around her stomach which suddenly felt overfull of coffee and food . |
| 6 | Referring to the burden which subsidies placed on the state budget , Ben Ali said that " we can no longer do nothing in the face of the growth of the compensation costs , which alone absorb one-quarter of state expenditure " . |
| 7 | Apart from the general prohibition , Tyndale 's translations , especially the later ones , were found particularly offensive for their belligerent marginal glosses , which often followed those of Luther . |
| 8 | It is likely that many of the silver vessels from Ur which closely resemble those of gold were in fact made of electrum , a natural silver-gold alloy . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't think you ever thought much of revolution , ’ I tell him , sipping my whisky . |
| 10 | If you ever run short of money on holiday , you can cash personal cheques , or change currency and travellers cheques , at most of our l , 500 Travel Service and Representative Offices around the world . |
| 11 | However , there is a very considerable congruence between Marxist accounts and those of the new right who both identify much of expenditure on the welfare state as dysfunctional for capital accumulation ( see Mishra , 1984 ) . |
| 12 | The Brennans , who currently boast millions of album sales around the world , are better known as the Irish folk band , Clannad — while Maire 's younger sister Enya is also enjoying great success with a new solo album in both the UK and American charts . |
| 13 | Where either intellectual incapacity or lack of any actual connection means that we can neither intuitively nor demonstratively perceive a connection , then , ‘ though we may fancy , guess , or believe , yet we always come short of knowledge ’ . |
| 14 | What we 're saying on the whole is that we , we are moving south erm militarily we , we now control most of north China , we begin to move on to the into areas of very high tenancy where landlordism was thought to be at its extreme but all we 're doing is reducing rents and interest rents . |
| 15 | But erm , they did n't seem to go on the dole , they just seemed short of work and short of money , you see ? |
| 16 | They finally became aware of Dad and as the penny dropped they both stared at him speechless . |
| 17 | They also redecorated free of charge . |
| 18 | This letter is incomplete in the Darlington collection , but it obviously contained much of use to Bartram whose draft reply ( in the Library of the American Philosophical Society ) dated February 1759 stated that had the postage been three times more he would not have missed it . |
| 19 | He therefore seems capable of compromise . |
| 20 | He certainly learnt that of survival . |
| 21 | They smell each other , the cat , any other passing creature , all their human associates and anything else considered worthy of investigation . |