Example sentences of "[adj] of [pers pn] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they were plain , I might get fond of them and no longer notice , but they stayed inescapably plain and I , despite my best efforts , stayed stubbornly unenchanted . |
| 2 | He had always liked her , had grown very fond of her and now he was finding her intensely desirable . |
| 3 | Minton , though very definitely a part of the circle , was also contemptuous of it and never lost an opportunity to poke fun at it . |
| 4 | I became convinced of it and then … well , I was determined to find her . ’ |
| 5 | Richard seemed to me to have changed so much , become humourless and uncertain-tempered , a family man who grumbled because his socks were not mended and his shirts not ironed properly , so that I was slightly nervous of him and also resentful : I felt that I had become , in his eyes , so much a wife , that he would see my new involvement as a nice occupation for me , like embroidery or dressmaking . |
| 6 | Bianca , sitting boldly upright in her kayak Svalbard , is suspicious of us and aggressively protective of Norway and all things Norwegian . |
| 7 | I know it 's unfair of me and horribly troublesome for you , but please believe that I 'm not going to start importuning you — or anything like that . |
| 8 | Froissart says that the English found ‘ plate and gold and silver belts and precious jewels in chests crammed full of them as well as excellent cloaks ’ , and the Black Prince made off with Ring John 's own jewels . |
| 9 | Their heads were actually downcast , they themselves were ashamed of it and yet they would not commit themselves to vote for it . |
| 10 | This is what we believe in and we are proud of it and maybe , just maybe , we would start winning elections instead of losing them . |
| 11 | They were in the thick of it as well . |
| 12 | He had to make mock of her because otherwise he would have knelt down again and — cradled her close to him to comfort her . |
| 13 | It described where the prisoners were held : ; the people of Tazmamert appear to be hardly aware of it or too frightened to talk about it . |
| 14 | If this is the case then you must be aware of it and carefully note the reasons for such differences of opinion . |
| 15 | There was an open war going on between the child and the nun , and the class was aware of it and daily seemed to await events . |
| 16 | He is acutely aware of it and so is Miss Julie Owens , Labour 's challenger , who gave up her job with the Socialist Group in Brussels to do battle . |