Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of us are labouring under beliefs which limit our potential , or create personal trauma and suffering , or which deprive us of the magic and joy of being alive . |
| 2 | Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record . |
| 3 | Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale . |
| 4 | The severity of her head injuries — when found she had lost 75 per cent of her blood and remained unconscious for almost six weeks — meant that she remembered nothing of the attack . |
| 5 | A special ‘ Old Town Walk ’ leaflet is available to ensure that you miss none of the highlights ! |
| 6 | Portlington was a public school so minor that you got none of the cachet for having been there that is the real point of an English public school education . |
| 7 | ‘ We have reason to believe that you recently broke into Taigh na Tuir , the house belonging to Mr Hamilton here , and that you know something of the whereabouts of two valuable guns . ’ |
| 8 | Reworking the question into a related generalisation , on the other hand , shows that you understand something of the complexities it contains . |
| 9 | She and Susan had rooms adjoining , so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house . |
| 10 | ‘ So you heard none of the commotion when Sarah Parker roused Dr Darnell ? ’ |
| 11 | Several customers had similar tales to tell although there seemed none of the panic of the previous year , only a feeling that war was inevitable and a preoccupation with details . |
| 12 | getting compurgators to swear that they believed him to be oathworthy , although they knew nothing of the facts of the case . |
| 13 | Though such rumours can not be proved , they are so endemic that they suggest something of the sort has been occurring . |
| 14 | He had something of the solitary about him , something of the dreamer , although he had none of the dreamer 's physical clumsiness . |
| 15 | My view would be that it does nothing of the sort and that if we think it does we delude ourselves . |
| 16 | Expecting to find a look of mockery on his face , she was disconcerted to see that it held nothing of the sort . |
| 17 | The matches are made of a wood so flimsy that it reminds me of the balsa with which I tried , unsuccessfully , to build model aeroplanes . |
| 18 | The fourth and most important implication of the placebo response is that it reminds us of the beneficial effect of the successful physician-patient encounter . |
| 19 | Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing . |
| 20 | She knew , from how he had said , " there is nothing wrong with a comfortable life , " that he felt none of the revulsion she did . |
| 21 | It was n't until almost his last breath that he told her of the board beneath his bed and what was under it , assuring her he had saved it for her . |
| 22 | Starkey said yesterday that he knew nothing of the move and as far as he was concerned he was still on Cacoethes . |
| 23 | His embarrassment about self-disclosure gives the impression , belied by his other books , that he knew nothing of the mystery that grace works by means of human weakness , not by side-stepping it . |
| 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 | Major insisted that he knew nothing of the BCCI fraud before June 28 , 1991 , when he was informed by the Bank of England . |
| 26 | Just tell them about this product , what it can do , and I assure you of the results . |
| 27 | Again I accept the constant parental care has been of the highest calibre and I remind myself of the many tributes to the quality of that care in the evidence before me . |
| 28 | ( a ) The prohibition in paragraph ( 2 ) of this rule shall not apply to a business consisting of a management consultancy or a company secretarial service and which offers none of the services specified in that paragraph save the drafting of documents under sub-paragraph ( 2 ) ( j ) and the giving of legal advice , provided such drafting or advice is ancillary to the main purpose of the business . |
| 29 | ‘ But I do deny it and you know nothing of the sort ! ’ |
| 30 | Imagine the very best episode of ‘ Hill Street Blues ’ inspired with the depth of ‘ King Lear ’ and you have something of the flavour of this wonderful film . |