Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collecting the trowel , she bent down and began stabbing it into the bigger clumps of earth to break them up . |
| 2 | Hashmat Ara Begum , a community worker in the Borough of Camden told me that she too had come across the most contemptuous attitudes among Health Visitors . |
| 3 | As Kee says : ‘ The religion of Constantine takes us back to the context of the Old Testament . |
| 4 | Says singer Michael Stipe : ‘ The very weird religion of celebrity scares me . |
| 5 | It burned at the top of a 25Oft stack and we tried all sorts of things to get it to light again . |
| 6 | Those sorts of things inspired me , and the reason those records sound like they do is because they used that equipment . |
| 7 | I think when I meet — and maybe would count them not in hundreds , but in tens — when I meet women who make those sorts of comments and say this time last year I would not have said that , then those sorts of things encourage me very much . |
| 8 | He really did all sorts of things to help us , and we never said please or thank you and now he 's dead . ’ |
| 9 | That 's given me all sorts of things has it ? |
| 10 | For example if I 'm looking at O-level history , ‘ What sorts of things do you think might be important , or what kinds of evidence do you think I ought to collect , or what issues do you think I ought to take into account ? ’ ’ |
| 11 | Carpets , tiles and flooring , the Steamatic helps revive all sorts of surfaces leaving them more hygienic , cleaner and brighter . |
| 12 | The advocates of massive aid hint at all sorts of threats facing us if we do not hurry to the rescue , but are the dangers from a collapsing state greater than what could be expected from a revitalised Russia ? |
| 13 | What sorts of factors constrain me to do so ? |
| 14 | Spinoza holds that the more we understand why we have these impulses , as also why certain sorts of thought overwhelm us with depression , the more we will get on top of them . |
| 15 | I it seems to be functional , so you know you get like lawyers and farmers and all sorts of people using it . |
| 16 | By lodging your slides and information with us , you enable all sorts of people to view them . |
| 17 | All sorts of people owe him favours , you 'd be surprised . |
| 18 | All sorts of people play it : students , businessman a lot of jugglers too . |
| 19 | Therapist : ‘ What sorts of stresses have you been under recently ? |
| 20 | It advises the reader not to leave their bedroom window at night because all sorts of pitfalls await them ; crocodiles , ghosts , monsters . |
| 21 | The emphasis that Calvinists placed upon the majesty of God led them to condemn as blasphemous any attempts to tinker with the supernatural , and thus their reaction to calamities was to accept them as part of God 's inscrutable purpose — the working out of a divine providence which governed all human affairs . |
| 22 | And this song , number five in the front section of the Songs of Fellowship reminds us that there on the cross as Jesus dies for his dad , great demonstration of his love for us ! |
| 23 | Up to now the US airwaves have been free , but there are moves to license any new frequencies that become available to the highest bidder — some argue that television should go entirely by cable to free capacity for radio communications : the US Federal Communications Commission is supporting a bill in Congress to free 200MHz of government-controlled radio frequencies for commercial use , in part through auctions ; the National Association of Broadcasters said it would support the bill if broadcast frequencies were exempt from the auctions ; McCaw Cellular Communications Inc is also a supporter of the bill . |
| 24 | It was further agreed that Joe McGhee be asked to write to the association of Chaplains to invite them to send a representative . |
| 25 | Thinking of Lee made him remember Uncle Walter 's medals that he still had in his pocket . |
| 26 | Thinking of badness gave her one of her ideas . |
| 27 | Thinking of Bonanza got me on trying to figure his reaction if Vecchi got hooked for the Mahoney killing . |
| 28 | So far from craving for crumpets I was firmly resisting repatriation and trying hard to stay where I was ; the kindness of friends enabled me to do so . |
| 29 | Quality Beef Growers of York says it will be supplying 30,000 carcasses a year to retailers . |
| 30 | It will take a great deal of money to do it properly and I 'm only interested in doing it if I have the support to give me a chance of winning . |