Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 And he said he did n't know that , that he would get hold of Sen and ring me first thing , thing in the morning er , to tell me why Sen has n't paid .
2 In fact , you are to take a thousand down to the marshes of Kelfazin and leave them there .
3 Not for the first time he wondered why it should affect him like that , when he himself was fond of Chuck and admired him , too .
4 This was , reportedly , to avoid confusion over the status of Anand and to allow him to work unhindered up until the time the new government was formed .
5 Wait until I 've shown you the fabulous coast of Jutland and taken you to the island of Fyn where I was born .
6 It was the memory of the sparkling waters of Tenerife that helped her with her imaging , and her joy in at last succeeding in that therapy was immense and infectious .
7 In response to his prompting remark that ‘ the Jewish problem still has n't been cleared up ’ and ‘ we hear nothing at all about what sort of solution is imagined ’ , only three Party members ( 5 per cent ) expressed open approval of the right to exterminate the Jews , with comments such as : ‘ The Führer has decided upon the extermination of Jewry and promised it .
8 In the early hours of 9th January , 1969 , Vigilant sighted the suspect vessel entering the River Swale near the Isle of Sheppey and followed her in at a safe distance .
9 In the end , it was geography ( in the form of the river Loire ) and Joan of Arc that saved them .
10 From then until his death in 1099 at the age of fifty-six , El Cid fought a series of dazzling campaigns against the Moors , taking the fortified city of Valencia and making it an impregnable fortress against his enemies When news of his death reached the rest of Spain , men and women wept openly in the streets , tearing their clothing and lacerating their cheeks in an extravagant display of mourning .
11 Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster .
12 Peach retired in 1905 after 43 years service in a career which had taken him into nearly every part of Scotland and brought him world-wide recognition as an outstanding field geologist .
13 He neither sought the captaincy of England nor flaunts it .
14 He neither sought the captaincy of England nor flaunts it .
15 I , and the rest of the family , laid back , thought of England and enjoyed it , because it is an impossible car not to enjoy
16 Well might and wait till the second of July and get it all second hand .
17 In 1168 Geoffrey stood on the threshold of a long and turbulent career which was to earn him a great reputation as a knight both in Europe and on crusade and to help lift his dynasty out of the ranks of the barons of Poitou and place it firmly among the leading princes of Christendom .
18 Seeing that Teclis could not be dissuaded , the High Loremaster gifted him with the War Crown of Saphery and let him go .
19 elected on the second of May and wish them an enjoyable and fruitful term of office .
20 It was suddenly quite impossible to put these living words back into page 300 of Vico and return them to Safe 5 .
21 And it 's perhaps up to the new civilian C P O to go to the likes of Mick and say I ca n't do this , I have not been trained to do it yet , until I have been trained to do it perhaps P C should continue using his skills .
22 The previous two aspects are clearly the main thrusts of RMI but combining them together successfully and reducing negative fall-out within the organisation is , in effect , the third aspect , that of managing the cultural change that new systems will inevitably produce .
23 Approaches that have tended to over-emphasise the cost aspects of RMI and to make it appear as a finance-driven system tend to alienate the service provider groups and often meet with resistance at clinician level .
24 She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children .
25 Sue said : ‘ We 're confident of the success of Mossburn and hope it will prove to be a real crowd-puller . ’
26 If it is not those of Garrafad and Carnach we will soon have to face , it may be our own people .
27 But soon he discovered that politicians were more interesting than colonels so he arranged his soldiers as though they were the House of Commons and made them harangue each other .
28 The next day he reported its receipt to the House of Commons and forwarded it to the Treasury with some papers explaining the background to the competition .
29 Thus the Englishman , familiar with his Rhaetian sediments at the top of the Trias , can not but be astounded when he reads of the Rhaetian deposits of Thailand and finds them described as black pyritous shales with Rhaetavicula contorta , resting on red marls and sandstones , with evaporites , just like those of the Severn cliffs .
30 It is the cattle dealers and butchers of the town who are of most interest to us , for it was they who took the dog of Rottweil and turned him to their use with great effect .
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