Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 You made a fool of me and thoroughly enjoyed doing it !
2 ( 2 ) A continuance of the business by the partners or such of them as habitually acted therein during the term , without any settlement or liquidation of the partnership affairs , is presumed to be a continuance of the partnership .
3 It would be a mistake to think of them as exactly tied options .
4 After the two pictures for Leone , Van Cleef stayed in Europe to make pale imitations of them and only returned to Hollywood in 1970 for El Condor which unwisely made him a sympathetic character .
5 But even if this had not been the case ( and there was a part of her that still believed that he 'd come that second time to explain , or apologize ) she would have found an excuse for returning to England , just to be out of Marlin 's company .
6 She was twelve years younger than my father , and for years now I had called her Margaret , but until that moment I had always thought of her as firmly fixed in the older generation .
7 When he did , shouting and screaming , they tried to grab hold of him but only succeeded in ripping off his jacket sleeve as he bounced back over the wall .
8 Assistant general manager Tony Vulcan had told the tribunal : ‘ Ken ran at John with his arms flailing , he got hold of him and even managed to rip his T-shirt off . ’
9 He got hold of him and even managed to rip his T-shirt off . ’
10 Minton , though very definitely a part of the circle , was also contemptuous of it and never lost an opportunity to poke fun at it .
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