Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They became great friends and when they did that film in Africa they had a 15-hundredweight truck behind them absolutely full of whisky that followed them everywhere they went . |
| 2 | She poured herself one last mouthful of whisky and tossed it back . |
| 3 | He drove his Volvo to a beauty spot last month , drank most of a bottle of whisky and gassed himself with fumes from the car 's exhaust . |
| 4 | One night he drank a lot of whisky and told me I was gone off . |
| 5 | I snatched my miniature of whisky and lifted it towards the raised glasses at home , before stepping outside to watch those stars to the left of Polaris which would be blinking over Manchester . |
| 6 | Charles poured himself a large slug of whisky and downed it . |
| 7 | Depression now wrapped itself about her , making concentration difficult , while the thought of Silas holding Doreen in his arms brought a sudden flare of honesty that caused her to admit she was jealous . |
| 8 | Their opponents have been through the mangle recently , going out of two cup competitions courtesy of Bangor and seeing their lead at the top of the table cut to a slender one point . |
| 9 | Hirst is on the mend after cracking his ankle at Highbury a fortnight ago , and Bright said : ‘ I like his style of play and feel we can work well together . |
| 10 | After the initial period of assessment and support it should be possible to formulate a treatment plan . |
| 11 | It stated that the private houses , which formed the Foreign and Colonial Offices , were ‘ inadequate to the present extent of public business , in parts unsafe , and generally in such a state of dilapidation as to render it inexpedient to expend any large sum in their substantial repair ’ . |
| 12 | Mr Taylor 's considering his future — dividing his time between replying to three and a half thousand letters of support and nursing his mother , who , he revealed today , has suffered a stroke . |
| 13 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 14 | Although this assumption is very likely to be wrong it is still a usable forecast in the sense that it may be no more wrong than forecasts of change that get it wrong . |
| 15 | Over and above such dramatic ingredients of change and stress you probably have a long-term commitment which is stressful too . |
| 16 | When the skilled manager encounters what , on the face of it , is an intolerable set of work practices , attitudes and performance he does not necessarily take drastic action , he identifies the natural processes of change and accelerates them . |
| 17 | Do you start on A Question of Upbringing and throw it away after twelve pages ( my God this book 's abysmally badly written and boring ) ? |
| 18 | The web of skin that unites their toes has become greatly enlarged so that each foot is , in effect , a small parachute . |
| 19 | Zitney fixed her with the kind of look that made her feel electric all over . |
| 20 | Although it was their wood , a place where they often came , Libby felt herself to be an intruder , she did not want to disturb the figure by the water , who was now breaking pieces of stick and dropping them at his feet . |
| 21 | She came in with a further two bottles of champagne and took them , blue eyes shining , to Alfred , assembling the ingredients for the Rognons à la Didier . |
| 22 | If can recall to this day a book I had for review years and years ago in which the hero swaggered into a smart London nightclub , ordered a magnum of champagne and drank it down . |
| 23 | How natural to bask in the luxury of Concorde , congratulate herself on a triumphant trip , sip a glass of champagne and forget what she had seen . |
| 24 | Go buy a case of champagne and pour it all over your dick . |
| 25 | With a gasp of despair Ruth slammed down the half-empty glass of champagne and covered her face with her hands . |
| 26 | This is the result of my experience and your money and a touch of genius that follows me whatever I do . |
| 27 | Or , rather , a lion — there was something about those gold-brown eyes and swept-back mane of hair that made her think of the King of Beasts , dressed up in the trappings of civilisation . |
| 28 | The tracker , Tagan , took point , the rain beginning to mist his beard and the black mat of hair that covered his forehead , and they followed on , Fife and Drum looking wet and unenthusiastic already . |
| 29 | With a strength she had n't known she possessed she caught a handful of hair and dragged his head up . |
| 30 | She captured a stray wisp of hair and tucked it in . |