Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sobered , thinking of sagas I had heard of wolves , but my father hushed me . |
| 2 | This conviction arose from the literature study as well as from the great deal of experience we had acquired in the shock treatment of these depressions ’ . |
| 3 | Like all Trolls they will eat anything and through force of circumstance they tend to eat a lot of rocks . |
| 4 | This is the earliest mention of tennis I have come across , and it is nice to know that even at this early age a sporting rivalry existed between the two villages . |
| 5 | I have also complained to you continually about the loss of orders I have taken from my customers , ie back orders which get lost on the computer or they are not delivered due to the lack of stock . |
| 6 | The Russian Government had purchased firearms , and the plaintiff claimed that this was a result of influence he had exerted ; if this were true , he would be entitled to commission on the sale value . |
| 7 | What 's interesting also growing cos the election employee representation is something which trade unionists are beginning to face as a result of initiative they 'd taken by U K employers . |
| 8 | He was seated on the sofa sifting through a batch of papers he had taken from his attache case . |
| 9 | My multiple personality required multiple scripts , and from my study of graphology I tried to create individual scripts that conformed to the analyses of heavy down-strokes , ‘ pasty ’ loops and uncrossed ‘ ts ’ : I was especially interested in ‘ pasty ’ strokes , which are supposed to indicate a rich sexuality , and disconnected letters , indicative of ‘ inspiration ’ . |
| 10 | On June 11 , as she visited a hospice in Southport , Merseyside , the facade of bravery she had managed to sustain crumbled and she burst into tears . |
| 11 | Had she been wrong , after all , Lisa suddenly wondered , about that underlying lightness of mood she had sensed in him ? |
| 12 | But in the years preceding the outbreak of war it had become by far the largest single retailer . |
| 13 | Relations between working class husbands and wives never lacked affection and it may well be that the poor , early twentieth century working class wife derived as great a satisfaction from the mix of activities she undertook to sustain her family as her modern counterpart does from , typically , a part-time job and the performance of less arduous domestic tasks ( with varying degrees of help from her husband ) . |
| 14 | We took four or five weeks to get across the Atlantic , being pursued by enemy submarines — all very worrying ! — and while Ben was setting Auden 's Hymn to St Cecilia and writing A Ceremony of Carols I started to put the Grimes scenario into shape . |
| 15 | born free look at merito I 've got a merito for every piece of work I 've done |
| 16 | The proof of this statement is so simple and elegant that it is the one piece of mathematics I have permitted myself in this book . |
| 17 | Maggie put a hand in her coat pocket , and with the tips of her fingers touched the piece of scrimshaw she 'd found in the mud where their house had once stood . |
| 18 | Bring a piece of furniture you wish to restore ( check suitability when you book ) and wear old clothes . |
| 19 | Another piece of equipment we 've got is a pocket notebook , we write down everything we do . |
| 20 | Virtually any piece of equipment you care to name can be hired these days — from access towers and cement mixers , to drain cleaners , wallpaper strippers and the humble stepladder . |
| 21 | The flash of hope in her eyes made him wish he could report a more substantial discovery than the meagre piece of intelligence he had to contribute . |
| 22 | there 's that piece of bread you left look |
| 23 | Dyson broke off in mid-explanation , frowning at a piece of copy-paper he had taken out of a little brown envelope marked ‘ J. Dyson Esqre . ’ |
| 24 | The strongest piece of evidence we 've found so far is that piece of chain , which ties in with the attack on the gipsy girl . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's a piece of teak I 've carved into a hex sign up there , ’ he pointed out . |
| 26 | He began jocularly by saying that he rose to address them with some apprehension , reminded of a piece of graffiti he had seen on a Whitehall notice board which had read , ‘ I used to be indecisive … but now I 'm not so sure , , which brought a few chuckles from the floor . |
| 27 | But when he was invited to play a piece of music he had composed for the Princess Royal to her when she visited Edinburgh , they rapidly found out . |
| 28 | I took out the piece of parchment I had found on the corpse . |
| 29 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
| 30 | It was not a note but a long letter explaining everything , as long and taking her as long to compose as the last piece of writing she had done , an essay comparing and contrasting Verdi and Wagner and their operas . |