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Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I shook the rain out of my hair and wiped my feet on the doormat , then stepped into the porch and tried the inner door .
2	Instead he took the wineskin from the horn of my saddle and forced me to drink .
3	‘ You and your little nerves , ’ he said and he put his fingers in the back of the collar of my dress and pulled it slightly as though I was a recalcitrant dog .
4	Slowly , I took my fists out of my pockets and opened them empty .
5	It broke the concentration of my players and led them into serious defensive errors .
6	‘ I had got part way up the tree when the bear grabbed one of my shoes and pulled it off , ’ she recalled .
7	He drew my arms around him ; he kissed the palms of my hands and drew my arms around him without speaking .
8	However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ?
9	Dad marched over , pulled my hands out of my ears and forced them down to my sides .
10	The decorations shone on the walls and I loosened the buttons of my tunic and slipped my tie down a few inches .
11	Then Flashman turned on Turvey , who said : ‘ Flashman grabbed the flash at the top of my camera and bent it deliberately .
12	I got my wallet out of my pocket and held it up in front of my eyes .
13	I went to the door of my room and opened it .
14	He snatched the cloak out of my hand and threw it on the bed .
15	And thus I was brought , by the gracious providence of God , to that place which had the chiefest of my labours and yielded me the greatest fruits of comfort . ’
16	Suddenly , salvation : Jo took hold of my arm and dragged me away , giving several extremely good reasons why we should leave as soon as possible .
17	That seemed to have been what he had in mind , as he put a paw on the back of my neck and bent me forward until my face was squished into the table top .
18	I tried to back down the stairs but Nelly kept hold of my frock and prevented me .
19	This brought the chucker-out to see what the commotion was about , but luckily he could n't tell what row it had come from because the old woman snatched me up by the hem of my frock and sat me on the seat .
20	I could not use the word though ; its power caught in the back of my throat and held me , voiceless .
21	Now he could understand why the Finns came running out of their saunas and rolled themselves in the snow .
22	He spoke of the research evidence of the few people who are gi who are given money for care , taken up after the settlement of their cases and added his own experience .
23	Only Raimundo 's lurchers responded when she combed the burrs out of their coats and fed them bits of meat .
24	She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs .
25	Fortunately , the young men soon recognised the comparative worths of their parents and paid their mother great respect .
26	After the besieged had licked the corners of their mouths and sucked their fingers clean one by one , the cold ocean of hunger closed over their heads again with scarcely a ripple to be seen .
27	Women in thick , serge dresses and wooden clogs gathered at the doors of their houses and watched us pass whilst half-naked children ran behind us , screaming in their patois for a sou or something to eat .
28	Then the Christians stood up in front of their barricade and put their arms round each other 's shoulders .
29	far from being crushed as a nation by the Russian conquest , the Yakuts succeeded in adapting to the ways of their conquerors and extended their own influence over their Tungus and Yukagir neighbours , not to mention the Russians themselves .
30	Their goals switched the spotlight back on the Ipswich title challenge as they moved to within seven points of their rivals and had their odds halved from 50-1 to 25-1 .