Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she is describing are characteristics of herself as a person , qualities of her own individual personality . |
| 2 | Red lights bleed from behind wire mesh , ankle-height , like the burning eyes of something in the sewer out of a John Carpenter film . |
| 3 | As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment . |
| 4 | You and your so-called friends make spectacles of yourselves at the party , litter the garden with debris and vandalise this fountain . |
| 5 | Although the links and influences of one upon the other are far from clear , it is not irrelevant to an understanding of the accounts to know how the pupils represent the character of their community . |
| 6 | She had brief glimpses of him in the wings , his head unpleasantly close to the head of a girl called Mona who was playing Prince Charming . |
| 7 | He did simmer down at times , enough to recognise his tendency to pour oil on the fire , and catch glimpses of himself as a ‘ half-strange , half-tiresome person . ’ |
| 8 | Every gesture , each movement has something planned , even the way he arranges himself in a chair , his hands behind his head , catching glimpses of himself in the polished surfaces , squinting at his reflection , all with an inquisitive vanity . |
| 9 | Michael Heseltine had his own way at the Department of the Environment and will continue to do so at Trade and Industry , where supporters of his during the leadership contest have been given junior positions . |
| 10 | This perhaps overstates the case but at least reminds us that the modern child is provided with images of himself as a member of a distinctive category just as , a few years later , teenagers are presented with a variety of images defining what it is to be a teenager , each stressing a collective autonomy and independence . |
| 11 | It still stank and his nobles were so keen to avoid the putrid smell , they sent waxen images of themselves to the church . |
| 12 | ‘ The thanks of everyone in the company are due to them for really pulling out the stops when it was needed ’ . |
| 13 | In case we become aware of its tricks , the Ego tries to throw us off the scent , by projecting aspects of itself onto the outside world . |
| 14 | But the resurgence of nationalism in Europe and in other parts of the world , in diverse forms , has made this once again a major issue for political analysis , and I shall return to various aspects of it in the next chapter . |
| 15 | And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character . |
| 16 | Claptrap — or the words of someone on the Aids scene who really knew the score ? |
| 17 | A HAIRDRESSER whose boss slipped topless pictures of her into a style book for his male customers won a sex discrimination case yesterday . |
| 18 | ‘ Male fans ask for pictures of me in a bathing costure ’ |
| 19 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 20 | Many physicists ( pronounced ‘ fizzy-sists ’ ) have large pictures of him on the walls of their laboratories — just as you might have pictures of your favourite pop stars on the walls of your bedroom at home . |
| 21 | In this case , a more precise purpose might be , " I want to find out the relative sizes of the most common dinosaurs so I can draw scale pictures of them on a wall chart . " |
| 22 | So , I have pictures of myself as a boss , a father , a spouse , a friend , etc . |
| 23 | All the pictures of us on the beach , with got all . |
| 24 | ‘ Would n't it be good if people were interested in pictures of you with no clothes on ? ’ |
| 25 | They went to considerable lengths to remove all traces of her from the offices and rooms she had used at the Palace . |
| 26 | Likely any car would have traces of it for a long time . |
| 27 | I must want my head tested sorting mail all day when I could be picking up wads of it on the lorries . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You 're right into the teeth of it over the first five holes . |
| 29 | Even so , without pause the report resumed its brooding concern over ‘ the apparent relaxation of standards of behaviour ’ , ‘ the lowering of hitherto established values ’ , ‘ the erosion of good standards , which were hitherto commonplace ’ and the necessity of ‘ reinforcing the values of what as a nation we had believed in for many years ’ . |
| 30 | What I recommend you , you look at , I do n't think it 's on your reading list , no it 's not , it 's not on your reading list , but there are copies of it in the library . |