Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told in my training at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene that Patrick Manson , one of the school 's founders , was unsuccessfully sued by a Chinaman for loss of living when he worked in Amoy , China . |
| 2 | It was during those months of waiting that she felt in her heart that her husband was once again seeing Camilla . |
| 3 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 4 | In this case , it is another way of saying that we wish to be governed neither by elected representatives nor by our own countrymen . |
| 5 | All of which is a roundabout way of saying that what matters in this world is asking the right questions , rather than knowing the right answers . |
| 6 | Right , so me and Jim had a chat the other day just looking at the the roadside entries and the counts and I was sort of saying if we work on the basis that we want between ten and twelve people , twelve people maximum |
| 7 | And I mean he took a lot of rehousing cos he come from a a a family that had n't really cared for him . |
| 8 | I become aware when parts of my body become tense and , more importantly , I know now how to ‘ relax ’ them , and when my body is saying that it has had enough I am able to leave things till tomorrow instead of insisting that they have to be done today . |
| 9 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 10 | He says he was thinking of chasing but they shot at him again . |
| 11 | So I was able to release these two successfully , and had the satisfaction of knowing that they approved of the site I 'd chosen . |
| 12 | This means that you have the peace of mind of knowing that whatever happens to general interest rates , your return will remain the same . |
| 13 | Still hammering away , the Institute has the satisfaction of knowing that it has at last brought home to the Ministry of Health , within whose purview this question comes , that things are not what they ought to be , and Dr Eichholz , who has just retired from the Chief Inspectorate of Special Schools , is at its request making a special enquiry . |
| 14 | As it is there are thousands of girls like me , and at least we have the comfort of knowing that he belonged to no one , and can belong to no one . |
| 15 | All voiced sounds are likely to lose a certain amount of voicing when they occur at the end of a word or at the beginning . |
| 16 | " A more thorough understanding of how teachers can evolve new ways of working as they move from tacit knowledge to practical principles will also contribute to making in-service education more effective . " |
| 17 | Allied to , but different from , acknowledging the need securing commitment is a matter of ensuring that everyone connected with the operation is personally committed to maintaining standards . |
| 18 | The palaces of meaning that she built with Friend in the endless night inside her — what were they for ? |
| 19 | A group of , say , four machines gives you a pretty good chance of hitting where you want at least once every turn . |