Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , a Norfolk farm boy ‘ used to spend a lot of time ’ with his labouring grandparents : ‘ a dear old cupple , and I was very fond of them and they of me , and would never hear anything wrong of me ’ , although he was already in trouble with the authorities . |
| 2 | Dysart Engineering was one of the success stories of West Midlands industry after the Depression and , as Gordon Dysart 's only son , young Alan was a dozen rungs above the likes of you and me on the ladder of life before he 'd so much as lost his milk teeth . |
| 3 | Similarly in 69 , which has eleven instances of Thou and none of I , the analysis of the Friend 's misbehaviour focuses on the discrepancy between his outward beauty ( ‘ thy fair flower ’ ) and his mind and action ( ‘ the rank smell of weeds ’ ) , an inconsistency given more biting expression by the double pun in the couplet : ‘ But why thy odour matcheth not thy show , /The soil is this — that thou dost common grow . ’ |
| 4 | He was so conscious of her that everything about her was vividly present to him . |
| 5 | She could swear , that in those few seconds before the interruption , Fen had been as aware of her as she of him . |
| 6 | He had looked out the window of his hotel that morning , seen the rain , thought of the day that lay ahead of him and none of it any more seemed worthwhile . |
| 7 | Either she got rid of him or he of her . |
| 8 | The finished text will , in appearance , be of a professional standard with all that that implies for the child 's image of him or herself as a writer . |
| 9 | ‘ Clothes make man ’ said the German proverb , and no age was more aware of it than one in which social mobility could actually place numerous people into the historically novel situation of playing new ( and superior ) social roles and therefore having to wear the appropriate costumes . |
| 10 | Do you not agree that you writers have had an easier time of it than we in the West , in a closed society where your cultural values are protected , albeit at a price ? |
| 11 | Something of the almighty importance of it and something of the utter meaninglessness . |
| 12 | So that you 're not think , Oh You 're first thought cos I know the way you you were working , you 're thinking Oh if I just double that , half it or take a third of it or something like that . |
| 13 | A bunk for each of us and one for the children to share . ’ |