Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I quickly exhaust my quota of courage out on the roads when seated on something flighty . |
| 2 | He said well from my point of view anyway at least he said just disregard that completely he said and we will do it on what you earnt , so he said all I can is erm just put in as many hours as you can to get your wages up on that side erm and then by the time we look at that he said , the end of February obviously you 'll have December , January and February which will be good months there , I said yeah so he said well then you know erm a hundred pound here and a hundred pound here he said , it all helps to keep the figure up for you so he s |
| 3 | The route has been described to death and there have been so many accounts of the leading objects , I am inclined to be silent till I reach some spots where fewer pens have essayed to give to the world their portraiture , allowing the sketches engraved to leave my mite of tribute alike to the noble natural architecture of the Isle of Caves and the art treasures in the Isle of Ionic Crosses . |
| 4 | Milan was always jealous of its measure of independence both of emperor and pope ; Milan and St Ambrose was the most active and powerful of all the traditions to rival Rome and St Peter . |
| 5 | The problem is as they know in their heart of hearts much of what they propose this year is not sustainable in future years . |
| 6 | Sociobiology therefore extends its field of analysis well beyond the individual organism . |
| 7 | If we sample one of these cavities in which the process is er which produce boils er are going on , almost inevitably we find this organism staphylococcusorius and offspotulates have been clearly fulfilled with organism and this disease most notably by a bunch of of medical students who are subjected to all sorts of tortures by their professor of microbiology back in the nineteen fifties . |
| 8 | When she was level with the edge of the thatch , she stopped and leaned over with well practised ease to take her tin of money out from its hiding place under the thatch . |
| 9 | We have made as we intended to do , if you remember we er advertised widely in accordance with our equal opportunities policy , er for that post but also I think in accordance with equal opportunity we wanted to give people the er chance to develop their range of skills internally for some of the er lower grade posts and therefore er initially the other posts er have been advertised internally and we filled the temporary er assistant administration erm post er internally . |
| 10 | Then erm names , babies I if a baby 's christened Timothy er it gets called Timmy or Nicholas gets called Nicky , which sort of ties in with the biscuits being called bickie and horsie and doggie and all this sort of ee things that you say to babies . |
| 11 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 12 | The issue of whether publication in one place meant that the information lost its quality of confidence everywhere at that time arose in Exchange Telegraph Co Ltd v Central News Ltd [ 1897 ] 2 Ch 48 . |
| 13 | She grabbed her train of thought just in time and hauled it back . |
| 14 | I wonder how many millions of logos are black and white and how many thousands of artists limit their use of colour purely to black and white , which is not in fact true of Joseph Kosuth . |
| 15 | It was when the community of Muslims had progressed to the second caliph — another companion of Muhammad 's named Omar ibn al-Khattab — that Omar 's Arab followers , already having to confront the resistance of the Byzantine emperor to their efforts to expand their area of influence northward into Palestine and Syria , found their drive for conquest opposed by the Persian empire . |
| 16 | After , she did not get into bed , but took her volume of Tennyson through into the sitting-room . |
| 17 | In a few minutes , Robert Maxwell 's widow puts her collection of hats up for auction . |
| 18 | But in the 1990s many citizens , particularly among the English ( who tend to be less conscious of their ‘ Englishness ’ than the Scots and Welsh are of their national identities ) , do not even feel British : it has been commented that the British lost their sense of identity along with their empire and have not yet found another identity . |
| 19 | Many players totally ignore the triplet subdivision approach , and end up developing their sense of time only in relation to eighths and sixteenth grooves . |
| 20 | The melody of the Adagio from Dvořák 's ‘ New World ’ Symphony owes its air of peace largely to the static harmony , which begins to move beat by beat only when there is a climax . |
| 21 | However , a person who based his or her sense of worth entirely on achievement would be much more likely to succumb to depression in the event of such employment problems . |
| 22 | The shares , which yield over 6% , climbed 3p to 239p , a whisker below their peak of 244p back in May . |
| 23 | For he later wrote the enigmatic poem To a Sea-cliff ( Durlston Head ) with its suggestion of estrangement even in the first year of their married life . |
| 24 | Kelly pushed her cup of tea away from her . |
| 25 | After I had left her she had spilt her cup of tea all over the bedclothes , which had soon become not only wet but cold and wet . |
| 26 | And I would willingly put it on another account , that the dumping of so much steel in the bowels of men , during our Civil Wars , hath hindered their digging of copper out of the entrails of the earth ; looping these peaceable times will encourage to the resuming thereof " |
| 27 | A student of mine who saw the Hollywood film Witness , which featured the Amish community , wondered whether we should think of their way of life not as a residue of the past but the way of the future ! |
| 28 | This has led to a position where politically opposed groups are united by their view of race exclusively in terms of culture and identity rather than politics and history . |
| 29 | By taking the ‘ contextual ’ norm as one of his defining factors , he avoids this difficulty and locates his framework of analysis firmly within the text itself ( see Riffaterre 1959 and 1960 ) . |
| 30 | Think so ? said Coffin to himself , running over his litany of suspects again in his mind . |