Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carr was dismissed by referee Brian White with just four minutes of play gone after he kicked out at Donegal midfielder Brian Murray . |
| 2 | A letter was received from Mrs. Hogan of Brighton asking if she could take over a sixteen-year-old blind boy , Arthur B. Her own son had died the previous year at the same age , and she said that she would ‘ do her best to make the lad happy , and find him light work in Brighton ’ . |
| 3 | Courier 's only glimmer of hope came when he broke serve in the first game of the third set , but it was only a momentary lapse of concentration by the German , who so likes to win in front of his countrymen and women , as he broke back in the next game . |
| 4 | His psychic sense of presence buzzed as he recontacted his spy-flies . |
| 5 | The OR then calls a meeting of creditors to decide whether they will make the debtor bankrupt or let him off by accepting an arrangement for less than 100 per cent of their debts to be paid in full and final settlement . |
| 6 | The depth of field increases as you stop down ; stopping down will reduce the amount of blurring of out-of-focus images . |
| 7 | Trinity Square still proving to be very busy so expect a few minutes wait if you want to get yourself parked in there and have a couple of minutes wait if you want to get into the Victoria Centre that 's at the York Street entrance . |
| 8 | We of course understood if he could not move on personal grounds , but those grounds could be related to health , or elderly parents , or children 's schooling — never his wife 's career . |
| 9 | Each LIFESPAN Process requires a minimum of 4500 blocks for the database files , which will of course grow as you use the LIFESPAN Process . |
| 10 | Now if the shop want to offer you an alternative that 's up to them and you can of course accept if you wish . |
| 11 | Again perfectly good adaptive reasons — they have two pairs of fins for the same reason that sensible aeroplanes , i.e. the aeroplanes that I used to design before people went crazy , have a wing in the front and a tailplane behind , and basically they do so because two surfaces — one in front of the other like that — is the minimum number of surfaces needed if you want to produce a vertical force through any point along your body . |
| 12 | At certain times the Supreme Court , in deciding the constitutionality of cases brought before it , has pursued policies directly at odds with those of the President and the Congress . |
| 13 | In case anyone thinks this was unnecessarily drastic , I did in fact leave them for a couple of hours to see if they would come out of their own accord — but they did n't , and I was concerned that they might starve if left to their own devices . |
| 14 | I might even get a couple of hours sleep before we reach London . |
| 15 | Oh yeah she 's been a couple of times to see if I 'd swap . |
| 16 | CCG Catering staff in Bridge of Allan suffered after they walked the ten miles from Bridge of Allan to Menstrie and back to raise money for Forth Valley Health Board . |
| 17 | 4.13 Management should continuously review the procedures for the delivery and/or collection of money to see if it is absolutely necessary and whether there are alternative methods available . |
| 18 | He said he could not release details of the amount of money involved as it was confidential information . |
| 19 | It 's a lot of money gone before you 've even |
| 20 | A glorious red butterfly with sapphire blue eyes on its wingtips fluttered and curtsied in front of me , moorland sheep scuttled reluctantly off the track as I ploughed towards them and a group of walkers cursed as they struggled up the bank . |
| 21 | But in the future a diverse ecology will only be able to coexist with an efficient agriculture within the context of a planned land-use strategy , and such an attempt to resolve the various and conflicting demands on the countryside can not be successful without farmers surrendering at least some of their freedom of action to do as they wish with their own land . |
| 22 | Remember that the facts are only the starting point : you will have a number of assumptions to justify and several courses of action to consider before you submit your final recommendation . |
| 23 | The sense of disbelief grew when I realised what a truly wonderful prize I 'd won . |
| 24 | I am trying ammonia remover in my filter instead of carbon to see if it is cheaper to run . |
| 25 | A lot of co-ops fold because they 're trying to run it themselves as well as putting out the products . ’ |
| 26 | In one of them the visitors faced the problem of the relationship between the staff and a head of department being the subject of a libel action , and a refusal by the staff to meet the visitors in the presence of the head of the department ( resolved by the visiting party member who chaired the meeting allowing the head of department to stay until he had to leave ‘ for another meeting ’ ) . |
| 27 | There seems to be little difference in the actual amount of weight lost whether you eat all your calorie allowance in one go , or spread it over the day . |
| 28 | Grayling reckons that he has about another two years of research to do before he can come up with a conclusive report . |
| 29 | She was n't aware of Piers approaching until he cast a shadow over her , and she sat up , this time not bothering to wrap her beach-robe around her . |
| 30 | Repairs to the Cages affected by the falling branch were completed and the Zoo 's formal admission of defeat came when they moved a Chilean eagle into the golden eagle 's old cage . |