Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [vb past] [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 | Zitney fixed her with the kind of look that made her feel electric all over . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | With a gasp of despair Ruth slammed down the half-empty glass of champagne and covered her face with her hands . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | With a strength she had n't known she possessed she caught a handful of hair and dragged his head up . |
| 15 | She captured a stray wisp of hair and tucked it in . |
| 16 | Emily shook back a stray curl of hair and held herself upright , she must stop feeling sorry for herself . |
| 17 | But the attack , when it came , came from an entirely unexpected quarter , leaving her completely without defence , as in one easy move he thrust his long fingers into her mane of hair and pulled her to him , his mouth silencing the startled cry on her lips . |
| 18 | And it was as if Boy was now suddenly the drowning one , and O was the lifeguard ; O slapped him twice around the face , pulled his head back by a handful of hair and placed his mouth over Boy 's before he had time to speak , and kissed him right there in the doorway of The Bar . |
| 19 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 20 | Stavrogin writes : ‘ I 've tried the depths of debauchery and wasted my strength over it ; but I do n't like debauchery and never wanted it . ’ |
| 21 | There was a thread of anger in the question , but Fran ignored it , just as she forced herself to ignore the sudden surge of hope that filled her heart . |
| 22 | But soon after he had a change of heart and left her . |
| 23 | Surely it was kindness of heart and had nothing to do with complexes . |
| 24 | An act of God is usually held to have been the spark which ignited Ceauşescu 's ambitions as a town-planner and architect of communism and spurred him to act on them . |
| 25 | I went through a bunch of necks and felt them , and after feeling about twenty I said to the guy , ‘ This is the one . |
| 26 | Nicephorus Phocas had mocked Liudprand of Cremona in the tenth century because western armies consisted solely of knights and knew nothing of siegecraft . |
| 27 | Now they came to King Michael 's white city of Ledyen and raised their tents beneath its walls . |
| 28 | Wolsey finished the plate of sweetmeats and told us to sit . |
| 29 | He wished us the best of luck and advised us that the Brigade was here to stay . |
| 30 | They are the first known lords of the manor of Cosmeston and gave their name to the village , Costentinstune ( the place of the Costentins ) . |