Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The town centre is a huge jumble sale : combs , mirrors , ballpens , lipsticks , exercise books , clothespegs , Chiclets , knickers , buttons , baseball caps , sweetcorn , dried fish , the Encyclopedia of Sex ( in eight Roneo-ed pages ) , belts , scissors , batteries , plates , machetes , crucifixes , razor blades , padlocks , strips of mango in plastic bags , everything well-fingered . |
| 2 | At one end of the heavier door , now held up on trestles , Donald had hefted a stone jar of whisky into position and Donald McLaggan was drawing off cupsful and handing them out . |
| 3 | They estimate an average annual consumption of 15 litres of whisky per head of the adult population . |
| 4 | Some widows who have been moderate social drinkers begin to drink more during bereavement , in order to take the edge off their emotional pain ; but this of course creates more problems than it ever solves , so you should never encourage your elderly parent to start taking ‘ tonic ’ wine for her ‘ nerves ’ or a tot of whisky at night to help her to sleep , for you may be helping her to establish a habit that can easily get out of control and become very hard to break . |
| 5 | If you have n't got a bottle of whisky at home or I 'm sure your mum can get one on the way in way in tomorrow ca n't she ? |
| 6 | I used to get bottles of whisky at Christmas and so forth . |
| 7 | Soon she was pouring herself a glass of whisky for breakfast , instead of a cup of tea . |
| 8 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 9 | Peter and Nick were sitting on the sofa sharing a bottle of whisky with Sara 's backgammon board between them . |
| 10 | I like a cup with a drop of whisky on top . |
| 11 | Smiling , I rose to join them , and when they both pressed their lips to my cheeks I caught the smell of whisky on Edward 's breath . |
| 12 | Medical experts told the court that they found cocaine and half a bottle of whisky in Kim Brockwell 's body . |
| 13 | My own cardiologist likes his Scotch , as I do , and says that a glass of whisky in moderation does you no harm at all . |
| 14 | Nor have there been any informal jolly gatherings when the daily toil of pressing the flesh is over : Mr Kinnock wandering back among the press party , glass of whisky in hand , letting his ( metaphorical ) hair down a little , tipping us just the hint of a wink that this is all just a great game . |
| 15 | Doubling of the stamp duty threshold to £60,000 was also viewed as the right sort of nudge for the depressed housing market , while the exemption of whisky from excise duty increases was a desperately-sought boon for the industry . |
| 16 | Still caught in a clench of emotion after the effort of the ceremony , he had accepted a spilling cup of whisky from Donald McLaggan and drained it as though it was milk to quench a thirst . |
| 17 | From the clerical aristocracy , he had been a leading Anglican theologian as Lady Mary Professor of Divinity at Cambridge before his appointment to the prominent public position of Dean of St Pauls in 1911 . |
| 18 | If Nicholson had strolled down Sunset Strip , he would have caught sight of Dean at Googies or one of the other coffee joints where Dean would meet with Natalie Wood and Dennis Hopper . |
| 19 | The Forest of Dean in June is both tantalising — and very rewarding . |
| 20 | The Commissioners reported that north of the Trent there survived only Sherwood Forest , while south of that river there were the New Forest , Aliceholt and Woolmer , and Bere Forests in Hampshire , Windsor Forest in Berkshire , the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire , Waltham or Epping Forest in Essex , Whittlewood , Salcey and Rockingham Forests in Northamptonshire , and Wychwood Forest in Oxfordshire . |
| 21 | Codenamed Operation Blackthorn , county workmen , backed up by police , sealed off hundreds of acres of farmland at Hillersland at the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire . |
| 22 | from the wilds of whitewater we 're off to the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire for the start of our action round up … there we 're meeting up with greyhound trainer Tony Meek … and his two dogs … |
| 23 | And this is exactly what 's happening in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire , where the Forestry Commission is positively encouraging cycling . |
| 24 | Meanwhile in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire , staff wage an unceasing battle against the grey squirrel . |
| 25 | A 17 year old single mother , who lives in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire , is having her driving lessons paid for by the county 's social services department . |
| 26 | Transfer of headquarters to Cairo |
| 27 | In view of the rapid ICJ transit in patients with carcinoid diarrhoea , our aim was to develop a model in which the effects and mechanisms of hyperserotoninemia on transit and fluid transport in this region could be investigated . |
| 28 | The register opens some three weeks before the Declaration of Speyer of May 1199 had been drawn up . |
| 29 | Strict rules about the handling of money should be agreed before the event with the emphasis placed on protecting those involved from any possible accusation of mismanagement rather than doubts about the level of honesty of individuals ! |
| 30 | And now Scottish Natural Heritage has asked the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology , Banchory , in liaison with the Scottish Agricultural Statistics Service and Biosphere Consultancies , to do a study to determine the current status of adders in Scotland . |