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

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1 He thought she might be on the point of offering him a nip of whisky but she did not go that far .
2 So the cost of a bottle of whisky that you buy on the plane home from holiday , is made up of both the manufacturer 's price and the airline 's profit .
3 John produced the remains of a bottle of whisky and they all had a dram to celebrate .
4 ‘ I 've bought a bottle of whisky and I 'm planning to drink my way right through it . ’
5 Non-taxing moment : the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , sips from a glass of whisky as he announces no rise in excise duty for spirits
6 Lassa Java pushed him early on … what a night it was for the Meek family from the Forest of Dean as they watched their dogs dominate …
7 ‘ I suppose I was feeling a bit guilty about being here , ’ she confessed in a burst of honesty that she instantly wished back .
8 I always felt that Basil was a very shy , warm hearted man with a special sort of honesty and I am glad that I knew him .
9 In winter the ground becomes cold and the trees are unable to take in the same amount of moisture as they do in summer .
10 Their bodies were covered in a mist of moisture as they lay side by side .
11 I 'VE been told I retain a lot of moisture when I eat .
12 Much the same would have been thought of Jessica as she would have been seen as someone who walked away from an evil religion and stepped into the right path .
13 I am here partly because I was fortunate enough to have the happiest and healthiest of childhoods and I see it as a very happy obligation to try to do my best to ensure that all over the world it is possible for other children to enjoy something of what I had .
14 She had stalked him with infinite care , she had attacked him frontally , she had thrown herself at him and teased him , and had finally reached the point of consummation where he was coming to dinner , in an empty house , wanting her .
15 As a consequence , the direct relationship between the cost calculation and the fixing of taxes that we have set up here is inapplicable .
16 Packet of crunchies if they 've got any .
17 I , I really feel two pound fifty is low for the quality of , of play that they 're seeing I mean other amateur groups not that we 're comparing ourselves , but they certainly charge more than us and quite honestly the end product on some of them is not up to our end product .
18 Confidence is particularly important during the development of inventions before they are granted patents because a patent will be refused if details of the invention have been made available to the public , as we shall see .
19 He had been delighted to the point of euphoria when she had bought the Victorian clothes .
20 There was no more talking from the Germans , and no more mortaring , the remaining part of the night passed fairly quickly with no further signs of tiredness as we lay and listened .
21 The same method of pultrusion as we have described for the GRP rod and tube is applied to carbon .
22 The law of confidence is concerned with the protection of secrets whether they be trade secrets , secrets of a personal nature or concerning the government of the country .
23 This is called the Hall of Secrets but it is the wrong place to whisper them .
24 I wondered as I thought of secrets if I might find some release in telling Lili the thing that festered in my soul , and I asked her if she would listen .
25 Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic .
26 The first tends to refer mainly to the military context which , while obviously important , is not what this book is about ; and the second is clearly state-centrist , and does not fully convey the scnse of hegemony where it does not directly involve the state , which I take to be crucial .
27 It is a well known fact that designers plant a line of bollards when they do not know what to do .
28 As its great historian pointed out , " French became the language of states because it had become the language of courts and aristocracies " .
29 The application of microelectronics to regulate the use of energy is , likewise , being depicted by this country 's government as a manifestation of progress since it involves harnessing advanced technology to promote efficient consumption .
30 It is an attempt to ask you to consider to maintain the sort of progress that we have been making erm in past years , but it 's a problem is not going to go away .
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