Example sentences of "of [noun sg] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Captain Montgomery has been reporting the state of progress and I thought you might like to hear it . |
| 2 | We were living in a period of change and he wanted to avoid the danger of rejecting courses of action merely because they had been considered and turned down on some earlier occasion during his leadership . |
| 3 | Evergreen Gordon Strachan added his vote too , saying : ‘ He has taken a lot of stick and I know that feeling ; that sick-to-your stomach feeling after a costly mistake , like a missed penalty . |
| 4 | ‘ YES , I was fired up — I always get like that when I 've had a bit of stick and I have had a lot of stick lately . ’ |
| 5 | And the man had a mouthful of champagne and I thought he was going to have a heart attack . ’ |
| 6 | I asked him why this change of heart and he said that it was because Harold Wilson had seen fit to put her in the Lords . |
| 7 | This has been a relatively lengthy chapter of necessity and it has placed sales settings in their respective contexts . |
| 8 | I remember being podgy , no make-up , an unsmart lady but I made a lot of noise and he seemed to like that . ’ |
| 9 | However there are nearly 200 equally important areas around the UK which are in urgent need of protection and we look forward to more SPA designations in the near future . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It brought me a lot of luck and I hope it brings her just as much . ’ |
| 11 | well this is it I think she was beginning to endanger her chances of re-election and I think |
| 12 | Paneth and Peters knew about palladium 's ability to absorb lots of hydrogen and they wondered whether packing so much of it in between the palladium atoms might increase the chance of the hydrogen atoms bumping into one another , thereby fusing and producing helium . |
| 13 | In a voluntary way a voluntary capacity working I mean in in this sense in my there is a sense of responsibility and I find that good and challenging which is perhaps one of the reasons why I like doing these courses because you you er a certain amount of stress and responsibility is is . |
| 14 | Stereoscopic depth perception was studied by Durnford and Kimura ( 1971 ) by asking subjects to judge whether two rods , one presented at the point of fixation and one presented in the left or right visual field , were horizontally aligned . |
| 15 | Now , what are the mechanisms of defence and what have they got to do with the ego ? |
| 16 | She is not hurt by what I have said , she thought , she is neither hurt nor angry , she does not understand what I have said , her mind is losing the powers of comprehension and she has no longer an emotional response . |
| 17 | The Privy Council in The Wagon Mound ( No. 1 ) stated that their Lordships had not found it necessary to consider the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher in relation to remoteness of damage and it has been suggested that the inference is that causation , not foreseeability , is the test under the rule . |
| 18 | In this latter respect , government policy ( or the threat of intervention ) would seem to be the most significant factor tending to remove authority over collective bargaining to the national confederations.9 Attempts to align the outcome of wage negotiations with macroeconomic policy objectives have been one factor which has tended to raise the level of bargaining and it has played a significant role at certain periods in countries such as Holland , Norway and Austria . |
| 19 | Indeed the covenant is important but it is Christ who holds the key to the understanding of baptism and I thought that you would like to hear how your work has helped us to see our way in this respect . |
| 20 | Erm , we wo , I would wish to thank Vera cos it 's a lot of work for erm , a lot of worry and I do hope that you all enjoyed it . |
| 21 | That 's right erm and of course and they did n't have that little bit of luck perhaps . |
| 22 | I said , of course and I said it would be nice company and so she said er you sit near the window , I 've seen it lots of times before , as I only live in Manchester . |
| 23 | The reason why of course and I take this as a matter of pride because er not only am I , I think probably the only member of the L S E as published in Nature recently , but erm er the other thing I take pride in is the fact that erm one really ca n't ignore it , because all the time stuff is being published in the world 's leading science journal which is directly relevant to this course and how many other courses are in L S E are like that ? |
| 24 | I 've been looking after myself of course and I got together her lunch at sits , I sit all the time . |
| 25 | and er you see and , and anyway I finished up my holiday and the sergeant said , he kept his promise and er sent me a report over the newspaper , you see , and er and of course and I liked the Isle of Man , you know , I went for trips around the island and various places and er , and I did see a Manx cat |
| 26 | This was one of the er this th this is one of the black books and one of the problems with this has been I think that a lot of psychoanalysts er have been Jewish of course and I think they regard as kind of heresy or some kind of disloyalty to suggest that Moses erm was n't Jewish . |
| 27 | Well it is possible of course and I think that er the European Nations , including those in Eastern Europe er ought to be getting together to consult about what we can do , because I do n't think it 's right simply to send these refugees back as the er Italians have been doing , er in fact there likely to be amongst . |
| 28 | you 're probably right , but the point remains of course and I have to have |
| 29 | Even if the consumer can cover the risk by insurance , the position is much more complicated for him , and his insurers are going to be less likely to waive their rights of subrogation , without which his assumption of liability and his taking on of the insurance for the risk will not work . |
| 30 | The reason Jesus used parables can not be to hide the truth from people because this is not the intention of teaching and it seems out of character with what we learn about Jesus elsewhere in the Gospel . |