Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 2 | Most of us are labouring under beliefs which limit our potential , or create personal trauma and suffering , or which deprive us of the magic and joy of being alive . |
| 3 | Eating and drinking is particularly good value — you can get a 6 course ‘ Mezes ’ meal , where you get lots of small dishes of Turkish delicacies for about £3 although a good bottle of wine may set you back 70p ! |
| 4 | Then we drive down to the drive-in restaurant where we eat lots of crap including a double order of onion rings . |
| 5 | Nigel had reasoned that , as most washing originated where one divested oneself of one 's dirty clothes and bed linen , i.e. the top floor , it was poor time-and-motion study to have the cleaning apparatus on the ground floor . |
| 6 | His principles are chosen by people behind a hypothetical ‘ veil of ignorance ’ , where they know nothing of their social position in society , their sex , race , abilities or conceptions of the good ( Rawls , 1972 , in particular pt . |
| 7 | we get more of you than me get plenty of me on these . |
| 8 | We tended to stick together too , although no-one accused us of being colonists . |
| 9 | Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI . |
| 10 | I would never have dared speak so , but she was quite unselfconscious , although I suspected her of an intention to shock — to shock me as much as anyone . |
| 11 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
| 12 | It was only later that I dared to approach the nurse who did the dispensing and whisper in her ear that I knew nothing of Bach Remedies and would she please enlighten me . |
| 13 | My dear mother 's statement years ago that I deprived her of her fur coat and that I was n't much to look at — she once actually pronounced me ugly — bit deep . |
| 14 | ‘ I say merely that I know nothing of your late wife . |
| 15 | ‘ I told your sergeant that I know nothing of my cousin 's death . |
| 16 | ‘ Not if you want to keep your job ! ’ he snarled , and , on the brink of all-out warfare , ‘ Do you have some secret understanding with him that I know nothing of ? ’ |
| 17 | Automatically I checked that I had plenty of fuel myself . |
| 18 | Assuming now that I was aware of one or two facts of which you , my dear , could not be , assuming that I had something of importance to communicate to Michel , would you still stick to your stubborn refusal ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sorry that I accused you of taking them . ’ |
| 20 | Marchmont himself was forced to admit that ‘ Lord Anson 's promises are so long in the performing that I reckon none of us will build sudden expectations upon them ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I can assure you that I have none of those — er-appendages . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I keep imagining this morning that I have — please believe me , Milena , because when we 're married you will have to put up with a lot of this , but I keep imagining that I have lots of little crisp sepia legs . ’ |
| 23 | My disability makes this rather a slow process , so I had plenty of time . |
| 24 | ‘ You alone must decide what to do , ’ he replied , ‘ and now I must leave you , so that nobody suspects me of warning you . ’ |
| 25 | Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record . |
| 26 | It was two months later that she told me of her problem and the discomfort it had previously caused her . |
| 27 | But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands . |
| 28 | Tallis was idly aware that she had none of these organs left . |
| 29 | Iraq would be much more justified to say that she spent lots of money on military equipment so that she could invade other countries like Iran to gain more land . |
| 30 | After a while Lily began to talk , and I realized that she understood nothing of what I had said about the war . |