Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all my experience of homicide in the courts … ’ |
| 2 | So , too , may seem my characterization of physics as the study of simplicity . |
| 3 | Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created . |
| 4 | What she wo n't want to hear is that I am cured of the madness which kept me from sleeping at night and the imagination which played havoc with my peace of mind during the day . |
| 5 | And when she 'd driven Billy , a pimply second-year , up to my hall of residence at the start of his fourth or fifth term , I 'd been on hand to help them unload her Mercedes estate car . |
| 6 | I know how they 're supposed to work , I know all about the importance attached to establishing a rapport and initiating trust and building confidence and all that shit ( and I 'm almost flattered they have n't done the old good-cop bad-cop routine , though maybe they just do n't do that at all any more because everybody knows about it from the TV ) , but I really do feel something for McDunn : he 's like my lifeline back to reality , my ray of sanity in the nightmare . |
| 7 | Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability . |
| 8 | Not then — to recall my point of departure in the previous chapter — knowing thyself , so much as knowing thy discursive formations — knowing them in the process of living but also inverting them ; reinscribing oneself within , succumbing to , and demystifying them . |
| 9 | well to be quite honest I 'll I 'll state my point of view at the moment . |
| 10 | So you know when you get in a meeting sometimes you 've got a point of view on an agenda item and you think how where am I gon na get support for for my point of view on the meeting ? |
| 11 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 12 | I had spent the few months before brimming over with excitement and anticipation for when my time would come to leave what had been my place of education for the previous four years . |
| 13 | The next day we followed my ball of string into the woods to show Tumbleweed our treasure . |
| 14 | I 've done my share of drudgery along the way — waitressing , skivvying , working in shops . ’ |
| 15 | as if even my memories of work on the glass were not memories but fantasies and fancies . |
| 16 | Ralf , instead of lolling there mouthing insults , fetch my pot of salve from the pantry and — ’ |
| 17 | ‘ When I presented my collection of Birds to the Zoological Society , Mr Gould kindly undertook to furnish me with descriptions of the new species and names of those already known . |
| 18 | I had hardly finished rummaging through my snapshots of cars of the '50s ( pictured here a fortnight ago ) when I was transported back another 10 years to the 1940s . |
| 19 | I greatly enjoy sitting down on a Thursday evening to compile a list of all the pleasant and even unpleasant things I have to do , and then luxuriate in my sense of achievement on the following Sunday evening when every item on the list is ticked off . |
| 20 | ‘ That has a lot to do with my state of mind at the time . |
| 21 | I do not remember now who wrote it , but it is no doubt from a modern German author , perhaps a philosopher , and it expresses exactly my state of mind at the beginning of 1958 . |
| 22 | We went to Edinburgh on our wedding tour and I thought it beautiful but I think that my state of mind at the time was such that I should have thought anywhere beautiful . |
| 23 | But here , my infliction of pain on the insect seems all too clear . |
| 24 | Oh Spilled my cup of tea over the tablecloth . |
| 25 | I packed my rucksack , signed the visitors ' book , left my list of sightings in the common room and said my farewells . |
| 26 | My trawl of invisibility in the Art Index has confirmed that until women became identified with feminism in the early 1970s they were as neutralised as their practice . |
| 27 | For all my lack of enthusiasm for the Hayes Society , it is my belief that this particular pronouncement at least was founded on a significant truth . |
| 28 | He did n't seem to take offence at my lack of enthusiasm for the system which had made religion into something you did in your home or in private or at its most social — in the privacy of a cubicle in Major TOM . |
| 29 | He looked at me with twinkling pity for my lack of understanding of the really serious things in life . |
| 30 | Partly because the sense of sight is the sense most extensively used in the practice of science , and partly for convenience , I will restrict my discussion of observation to the realm of seeing . |