Example sentences of "[verb] of [noun] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While men like Thomas Howard , Duke of Norfolk , and Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester , were prepared to accept the royal supremacy , they baulked at these evangelical reforms , which in their view smacked of heresy and threatened to lead England into the Lutheran camp . |
| 2 | Duroc had had to come of age and replace the older Duroc in the service of Nguyen Seth . |
| 3 | Wan na see a dirty movie with Muppet look-alikes taking drugs , dying of Aids and making blue movies ? |
| 4 | Kylie had come of age and become a sensuous woman , just like Monroe , whom she had always loved being likened to . |
| 5 | There were ways of treating prisoners properly , and of recognising that they had certain claims upon their captors ; there were also rules about the taking , sharing , and disposing of booty and pillage ; there were signs of formal war , such as the unfurling of banners or the setting off of a cannon at the start of a siege , which informed all those present that a certain legal situation now existed , hostilities having been formally declared . |
| 6 | The cash control , banking , accounts , maintaining of records and filing systems are dealt with in subsidiary offices to relieve the pressure on the reception office . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , these ideas make a lot more sense in spreadsheets contemplated by bean counters — a special type , as the British enjoy a breakfast consisting of beans and toast — than they do at display counters contemplated by customers . |
| 8 | Even if the desire is never satisfied in any but the fantasy way , the man who constantly has such desires is to be condemned , for he is gaining satisfaction from a person whom he has divested of personhood and turned into a slave . |
| 9 | She could only think of Adam and pray he would be all right . |
| 10 | The divorce was very traumatic , full of accusations , stamping of feet and pleading from Marie for me to come back . |
| 11 | * Except for the top quality , Italian-produced no-cook pasta , such products should be avoided as they tend to taste of cardboard and have a similar texture . |
| 12 | The rooms were cold and empty , and they smelled of dust and glue size . |
| 13 | ‘ Mushy peas are described as the Caviar of the North , but the average Chinaman has never heard of caviar and thinks the ‘ North ’ is Outer Mongolia . ’ |
| 14 | In fact people who have never even heard of contraception and have never stepped inside a family planning clinic still plan their families . |
| 15 | Eight-year-old Gerald pauses mid-way through extracting the marrow from a colobus bone with a short stick ( held between thumb and forefinger ) , which he had first stripped of leaves and broken to length . |
| 16 | To mourn is to be stripped of self-sufficiency and to identify with the needy on their own level , not from above them . |
| 17 | This year all major vessels and columns were stripped of asbestos and reinsulated during the major shut-down in July and August . |
| 18 | Thus much of the ‘ business ’ is taken out of worship , without numbers to be announced , places to be found , rustling of papers and shutting of books when the music is finished . |
| 19 | The distribution will consist of indexing and searching utilities , including functions to make use of the database of rather simple knowledge about words and phrases referred to above . |
| 20 | If the day had been wet , the kitchen range would be surrounded by a huge clothes horse hung with wet washing , and the room would smell of steam and drying clothes . |
| 21 | It stepped slowly towards Tallis , crouched with much rustling and snapping of sinews and reached a long , tapering twig-finger to touch her hand . |
| 22 | Of the manner of making clergy , very early texts speak of prayer and laying on of hands , by which was conferred a charismatic gift appropriate to the office ( 2 Tim . |
| 23 | They speak of opting out in the primary , secondary and further education sectors ; as for social services , they speak of monitoring and enabling rather than providing . |
| 24 | Like Furlong ( 1973 ) Turner defines the effects of the juropolitical role as being possessed of anxiety and denying the reflexive possibility . |
| 25 | It was the size of a double garage , open on one side , built of stone and roofed with tiles . |
| 26 | The warehouses are built of stone and have wooden beam hoists on the gable walls . |
| 27 | It is built of brick and has six storeys . |
| 28 | The four-storey flour mill built of brick and weatherboarding on the River Lea dates from the early nineteenth century , and cast-iron columns were used , relatively early , for the interior structure . |
| 29 | However , an alternative approach might argue that , if learning does involve making structural changes at synapses , and the synapses are built of proteins and packed with molecules of neurotransmitter , then learning must itself involve the synthesis of new proteins and transmitters . |
| 30 | The upper and working classes , being less verbal , less given to talk of shoulds and oughts between the sheets , have less trouble , if you 'll forgive me , simply getting it up and putting it in , to the relief and satisfaction of everyone concerned . |