Example sentences of "[verb] of [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will let me know of course if you think it better to discontinue this when I start the new treatment . |
| 2 | But these tasks are not expected of students because they are quasi-research activities . |
| 3 | Artemis 's father was away for a week 's sport in Leicestershire , and apparently it was expected of Artemis that she should be ready and able to go out and ride her new horse side-saddle alongside her father on his return . |
| 4 | Writing is included because , particularly at the later phases of primary schooling , curriculum guidelines are rare , and it remains unclear as to what might reasonably be expected of children once they have mastered putting words onto paper . |
| 5 | I am very sorry to hear that your husband is dying of cancer and we can at this stage only send you our best wishes and understanding . |
| 6 | ‘ We ca n't have him dying of thirst before his flesh has been mortified enough to appease the Dark Ones , ’ said Wiggs . |
| 7 | Perhaps this was because Galileo had claimed of heat that its ‘ generally accepted notion comes very far from the truth … inasmuch as it is supposed to be a true accident , affection , and quality really residing in the thing which we perceive to be heated . ’ |
| 8 | When you realise of course that there 's a hell of a lot of erm scope for well trained , well qualified engineers . |
| 9 | ‘ Miss Braithwaite , ’ he turned towards her with warmth ‘ I realise of course that you 're on holiday and I hate to intrude on your leisure , but since you have some knowledge already , I wonder , would you feel able , discreetly , of course , to make one or two enquiries ? |
| 10 | There is no explicit reference to Gloucester 's attainment of his majority , but Clarence was deemed to have come of age when he was sixteen and Richard 's sixteenth birthday fell in October 1468 . |
| 11 | There is no explicit reference to Gloucester 's attainment of his majority , but Clarence was deemed to have come of age when he was sixteen and Richard 's sixteenth birthday fell in October 1468 . |
| 12 | We had only known Sinar Surya as a lumpish extension of the land — as dependent on it as a baby is on its mother ; now she had come of age as she surged south to a thrilling new rhythm , new smells and new sensations . |
| 13 | Consider , for instance , how Rupert Croft-Cooke , out to discredit Gide 's account of Wilde 's seduction of him ( Gide ) into a confirmed homosexuality ( above , Chapter 1 ) , writes of Gide that he ‘ picked up ( among others ) the Algerian boy prostitute Athman , who became known to other visiting Europeans , including Eugène Rouart and Francis Jammes and was brought to Paris by Henri Ghéon ’ . |
| 14 | Chairman I 'll try and be brief er I think the problem with the car boot sales is that they have been er hi-jacked commercially er it seems a good idea it 's , it 's another line another way of disposing of goods whether they 're straight goods or whether they 're they 're er misappropriated goods or whatever . |
| 15 | And there 's the controversy , which I do n't approve of controversy and they rather roll their tongues around and in and out of words and |
| 16 | People say of Monsoon that he has a fortune buried in a burnt-out refrigerator on one of the many little islands standing knee-deep in the sea . |
| 17 | I could of roared of laugh when she won when Joyce won that raffle you know , all little bits of this and little bits of that you know , and there were a Christmas pudding on the , er , well you picked what you wanted well |
| 18 | Penry 's fingers bit into her flesh cruelly for a moment , then his face drained of expression as he released her . |
| 19 | All too typically I saw enthused teachers returning from training , armed with new perspectives who became progressively drained of optimism as they faced non-understanding in colleagues , shortage of resources , lack of follow-up support , and who ended up despairing and cynical about possibilities of real change . |
| 20 | Everybody around me was slagging of Newsome and it was hilarious when he score and the Cop were shouting his name ‘ al la Shearer ’ . |
| 21 | That idea is that sovereignty is something to be guarded , preserved and held in splendid isolation , the idea that we must always think of sovereignty as something that we are required to hand over , required to lose , to surrender or to sacrifice — conceding , in the words of my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley , powers demanded by the Community . |
| 22 | Well to a certain extent I suppose it 's true , erm but I suppose if you said , well erm you know , can I think of skills that I need to develop ? |
| 23 | Also , if you have any comments on the booklet or can think of ways that we might improve it , we 'd be pleased to hear from you . |
| 24 | Take a card and try out everything that you can think of doing while it is inserted into the machine . |
| 25 | The table he sat at was circular and made of pine or what Hilbert and Adam 's father had called deal . |
| 26 | She comes up gasping , the air warm about her face , hair dank and smelling of mud as her feet touch the bottom , sinking into its softness . |
| 27 | You said to me that you would n't mind whatever one you got of Cher cos you like her music . |
| 28 | Biogeography provides the most obvious area in which the significance of human activity should be particularly demanding of study and there have been two particular themes , albeit increasingly related , which have proceeded in this direction . |
| 29 | Instead I concluded he was about as frightened of death as I am so why , in the good Lord 's name , did he get up and bore us stiff telling us different ? |
| 30 | Ye only need about three goes of crack and ye 've got yerself an addiction problem . |