Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun prp] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six years later Harold Rosenberg , thinking of Pollock and praising him , wrote : ‘ The modern painter begins with nothingness . |
| 2 | An advocate of home rule and agrarian reform , Walsh 's support for the controversial ‘ plan of campaign ’ earned him the displeasure of Rome and cost him the cardinal 's hat . |
| 3 | These stated : ‘ Everybody who calls himself or herself a Christian must now rally to the side of Christ and defend Him , not only with their rosaries and prayers but by protesting in a public and persistent manner against this film . ’ |
| 4 | Wait until I 've shown you the fabulous coast of Jutland and taken you to the island of Fyn where I was born . |
| 5 | Westmacott saw tracer at low level in the direction of Luqa and thought it was fire from an enemy aircraft — in fact it was the airfield 's own machine guns engaging the intruder . |
| 6 | Peach retired in 1905 after 43 years service in a career which had taken him into nearly every part of Scotland and brought him world-wide recognition as an outstanding field geologist . |
| 7 | With a bit of luck , Viola might accept the existence of Gina and ignore her as he did . |
| 8 | My aunt and my mother were particularly fond of him , and when he had a stomach upset they fussed over him all the time , preparing special bland food for him , making him swallow Milk of Magnesia and advising him not to drink too much Christmas sherry . |
| 9 | His 10,000-mile electoral odyssey , which started in Mrs Thatcher 's birthplace of Grantham and took him to more than 60 constituencies , finally brought him to Dulwich , just up the road from his predecessor 's Prime Ministerial bolthole . |
| 10 | A Rhodian , Menodotus , collaborated with another Rhodian to forge a bronze statue of Apollo and pass it off as a work of the early fifth century BC . |
| 11 | Looks for the support of Graham and finds it . |
| 12 | Mr Tsvangirai 's detention came a day after his Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions denounced the government 's closure of the University of Zimbabwe and accused it of unleashing ‘ brutal state force ’ against opponents . |
| 13 | In setting himself such a standard , Herbert sought to fulfil the ambition expressed when he was ordained : ‘ Though the iniquity of the late times have made clergymen meanly valued and the sacred name of priest contemptible ; yet I will labour to make it honourable , by consecrating all my learning and all my poor abilities to advance the glory of God that gave them . ’ |
| 14 | The Germans were now faced with an insoluble strategic problem , perceived but not resolved by von Schlieffen : they had insufficient strength to wheel west of Paris and subdue it . |
| 15 | In response to his prompting remark that ‘ the Jewish problem still has n't been cleared up ’ and ‘ we hear nothing at all about what sort of solution is imagined ’ , only three Party members ( 5 per cent ) expressed open approval of the right to exterminate the Jews , with comments such as : ‘ The Führer has decided upon the extermination of Jewry and promised it . |
| 16 | ‘ On your pins , Nero , ’ he bawled , taking hold of Owen and jerking him upright . |
| 17 | Get hold of Topper and send him round to Rhoda Brocklebank . |
| 18 | And he said he did n't know that , that he would get hold of Sen and ring me first thing , thing in the morning er , to tell me why Sen has n't paid . |
| 19 | ‘ So then I grab hold of Christine and drag her out . |
| 20 | He had grabbed hold of Cliff and had him halfway over the ship 's side and would have dumped him into the dock had he not been restrained by a couple of his workmates . |
| 21 | Hindley immediately took hold of Heathcliff and pushed him upstairs . |
| 22 | During a week of nightly attacks on foreigners in Saxony on Sept. 17-23 , police had to evacuate some 250 people , mainly from Romania , Yugoslavia , Vietnam and African countries , when right-wing elements including skinheads and neo-Nazis besieged their hostel in the town of Hoyerswerda and pelted them with Molotov cocktails , steel balls and other missiles . |
| 23 | The French quickly took the town of Killala and made it their headquarters . |
| 24 | But then more came , right to the site of Callanish and disturbed it , digging at the soil and making mounds ; changing the powers . |
| 25 | The Fenari clan seem 's not to have forgiven or forgotten this slight , for Molla Fenari 's sons later challenged a decision given by Molla Yegan as kadi of Bursa and caused him to be examined by a of the ulema . |
| 26 | Cut out or draw a picture of Freda and glue it on to the bookmark . |
| 27 | Ideally , breakfast on half your daily portion of Fibre-Filler or have it mid morning if you dislike eating early in the day . |
| 28 | Such suspicions were reinforced when he made this pampered favourite Duke of Lennox and granted him the revenues of Arbroath abbey . |
| 29 | He neither sought the captaincy of England nor flaunts it . |
| 30 | He neither sought the captaincy of England nor flaunts it . |