Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dare say it 's silly of me but I thought we 'd wait till the coast was clear , so to speak , ’ she ended , smiling at her own accidental pun . |
| 2 | It shocked the life out of me when I realised you were a virgin . |
| 3 | I went no you 're not , I thought you were taking the piss out of me when you said it . |
| 4 | More than sixty years after the event , while watching a child of his own try out his first steps , he suddenly stated in reminiscence and satisfaction to his most intimate Spanish friend , ‘ I remember that I learned to walk by pushing a big tin box of sweet biscuits in front of me because I knew what was inside . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The bike skidded on past ahead of me and I followed it in to the side of the road . |
| 6 | Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in … |
| 7 | There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had . |
| 8 | " If you wore iron boots on your feet , you would wear out twelve pairs of them before you found her ! |
| 9 | Aidan was a better authority on women than any of the rest of them so they followed him willingly . |
| 10 | I remember a go , a go with some of them that I thought I could do , but realised I ca n't do , do you know what I mean ? |
| 11 | She said she was gon na get hold of them but she said she 's got ta |
| 12 | We left 406 in October 1943 , and that was the last I heard of them until I received my Spring 1991 issue of Air Mail when I spotted that 406 Sqn were having a 50th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion in earlyh May at Shearwater Forces Base , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia . |
| 13 | You used to surprise some of them because they thought they 'd done it before you 'd notice . ’ |
| 14 | What happened to the rest of them when he left them on Epping 's still rustic station , at the extreme eastern end of the Central Line , was their business or misfortune . |
| 15 | In Isaiah 63:10 , 11 we read that the people on whom God had set his love ‘ rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit ’ , although he had put his Holy Spirit in the midst of them when he rescued them from Egypt . |
| 16 | Many of the small boats which usually travelled its waters were moored for the night and The Sandhopper passed a number of them as it made its way up river . |
| 17 | Some of them and they made them Leslie and Eric and James , Jimmy and Andrew and Jim and Georgie and Jim and them , they worked in the Wintertime you see and made the barrels . |
| 18 | It was like a rubbish dump , and yet there 's good old erm , grounds man , as soon as the had gone , they were down there , there was half a dozen of them and they got it cleaned in two days . |
| 19 | But I got talking to one of them and he told me he 'd just come out of prison where he 'd done time for soliciting . |
| 20 | Having reached his destination , he remembered the message that he had been asked to give to his hostess : ‘ I travelled down with an uncle of yours and he told me to give you the following message , ’ he said . |
| 21 | He bustled in one day , rubbing his hands , a fashion of his when he had something unpleasant on his mind . |
| 22 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 23 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 24 | ‘ He 'd take far more notice of you if you rang him , Inspector . |
| 25 | I meant to be fond of her but I found her tiring . |
| 26 | Such was Kylie 's hatred of what she called ‘ pirate ’ pictures of her that she instructed her lawyers to look into ways of suing those who published unofficial photographs of her on the myriad items of memorabilia that filled shops all over the world . |
| 27 | ‘ Now , Taggy , you know well it is because of her that he had nothing . |
| 28 | They were almost right on top of her before they saw her . |
| 29 | They wanted to get rid of her because they thought she was an interfering busybody . |
| 30 | takes the mick out of her and I started him |