Example sentences of "[adv] of [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , apropos of Wedding presents I often think that the deepdye polyester is not necessarily the best buy for newly weds when you come to think about it . |
| 2 | I wept not , so of stone grew I within . |
| 3 | Because future bonuses depend on future profits earned by the GRE Life Fund , we can not of course tell you precisely what your lump sum payment would be . |
| 4 | It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length . |
| 5 | Adam Verne-Smith , unwinding in Puerto de la Cruz , did not of course see it . |
| 6 | When I thought I 'd run out of things to say I asked the front two rows to move back and the whole place started buzzing . |
| 7 | After the patient has run out of things to tell you on his own initiative make enquiries into each of the sections covering the particular complaint of the patient . |
| 8 | Being out of school gave him a wonderful feeling . |
| 9 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 10 | Colleagues covered for me when I slipped out of work to do them . |
| 11 | That so far the outlaws had left them alone and kept out of sight troubled them all , this was so unexpected that it increased their fears rather than diminished them . |
| 12 | Hanson was let out of Leyhill to give him a chance to get used to life outside prior to release . |
| 13 | I admit my man was out of order tackling it in the way he did , for which he will be disciplined , I assure you . ’ |
| 14 | And , as Bukharin pointed out , such products — armaments — are non-reproductive , and this combined with the fact that they are paid for out of surplus-value makes them non-productive of further surplus-value . |
| 15 | Donegal 's insistence on playing the short ball out of defence cost them at least two points , a luxury they could never afford in a close scoring game . |
| 16 | Christ identifies with us , and in the garden of Gethsemane he cries out of loneliness fur us . |
| 17 | His mouth was clasped to her breast but she had long since run out of milk to feed him . |
| 18 | The fire burned hugely ; Silly-Willie had been kept out of bed to feed it . |
| 19 | So I dived out of bed to jot it down right |
| 20 | Jackie Out of Soho reviews it in short exclamation-marked bursts |
| 21 | They could think what I done was totally out of order.I mean it was only forgery , but they could think it was , you know … |
| 22 | An Oxfordshire branch of a travel agency which has announced it 's going out of business says it 's continuing to trade . |
| 23 | Here are some : To get out of trouble To get someone else out of trouble To make us look better than we are Try to think of some more . |
| 24 | He paid one of them £300 ‘ who , because I employed another to fit up my last room , out of pique arrested me for the balance . ’ |
| 25 | He was educated privately at home , and never knew there were other deaf people in the world until he came across the manual alphabet in one of the publications he was reading , and out of curiosity mastered it . |
| 26 | One day not long afterwards , Hopper got a call from Nicholson ; he was telephoning , he said , out of politeness to tell him he and Michelle were together . |
| 27 | When the Kitchings moved out of Tubwell Row they bought up land on a track called Whessoe Lane , which ran from Northgate to the village farmhouse . |
| 28 | Similarly there are individuals that go through the court system and are punished , that are perhaps sent to prison , and come out of prison saying it 's not going to make any difference , I now know how to break into every type of car , every type of building . |
| 29 | The girl in the mack was scrambling again through the puddles in the dirt of the wreckers ' yard ; the invisible and soundless shots from out of frame felled her at a signal from Jean-Claude and the partisans rose from the auto hulks , their own guns blazing . |
| 30 | Driving out of town leaves us with nothing , except everything behind us . |