Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EIGHTY factory workers were looking forward to a very merry Christmas — until their boss gave them just one bottle of whisky between them . |
| 2 | You could buy salmon , which I suspect could have come from the King 's Reach skirting Balmoral ) for 2/6d a pound ; and there was no dearth of whisky for which I had yet to acquire a taste . |
| 3 | He laid the pistol down and crossed to the drinks cabinet , pouring glasses of whisky for himself and for Carol . |
| 4 | Sharing a glass of whisky with him in his Montpelier Square home , you were liable to be quizzed about theories of antibody formation , David Bohm 's work , or any one of 101 other topical issues that had caught his attention . |
| 5 | And the ordeal of putting up the lists — he could still feel the brute weight of Allan Stewart 's shoulder jolting him aside , the smell of whisky on his breath , and then the twilit hours lying low beside the minister in the church , waiting for the hubbub outside to die away . |
| 6 | He tugged at the flask of whisky inside his tunic and eventually worked it out . |
| 7 | ‘ Caught the old girl with a bottle of whisky in her bag . |
| 8 | Hundreds of thousands had died in the post-war 'flu epidemic , so anyone who caught it — especially children — was bundled off to bed , as Clare was , with a hot water bottle , some aspirin , and a glass of hot milk with an eggspoonful of whisky in it . |
| 9 | He took to having a daily early-morning nip from a half-bottle of whisky in his hip pocket . |
| 10 | Gregson hung up and sat back on the bed , cradling a glass of whisky in his hand which he 'd poured himself from the room 's mini-bar . |
| 11 | With a balloon bobbing against my left shoulder and sand blowing over my boots , I opened my presents — a hot-water bottle and a small canister of shaving foam from Joan , and the book of Job and a miniature of whisky from my parents . |
| 12 | He produced a full bottle of whisky from his briefcase , poured out three tumblerfuls , and asked if he could have the television on . |
| 13 | He was also delighted to be given a bottle of whisky from his colleagues at Runcorn . |
| 14 | It seems there was some sort of watch on him , yes . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's far too much abuse from players and managers and a lack of honesty about them . |
| 16 | Melanie felt a drop or two of moisture on her face — rain , maybe , or the coagulated damp of the wet night air , or spray from Finn 's regard . |
| 17 | His eyes ran over her suddenly pale face , noting the fine film of moisture on her forehead . |
| 18 | Wiping a slick of moisture from her brow , she reviewed the situation . |
| 19 | We made our way back across the bridge through the huge puffin colony of lundaland to our comfortable turf-roofed house for a much needed meal . |
| 20 | However , it seems impossible to deny that each of us also has a sense of a self , or a centre of awareness , somehow within and integral to our ongoing experience , and such as to give a kind of unity to it . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , at the GMB conference yesterday , Mr Edmonds made a rousing speech in favour of unity between his union and the Transport and General Workers ' . |
| 22 | The NLD and the UNLD held talks during July aimed at achieving a measure of unity in their opposition to military rule . |
| 23 | The AMF(L) was formed in 1960 when it was decided by NATO that a show of unity amongst its members was necessary in times of international tension . |
| 24 | What the newly planted local church experiences of the joy of unity among its own members , it should also look for with other churches . |
| 25 | ‘ I continue to do so , Master , ’ said the Robemaker and , although there was not the smallest trace of subservience in his voice , Nuadu , listening intently , received the impression that the Robemaker was choosing his words with care , as if he was in some and of thrall to this being . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not the Wimbledon style of play with us , it 's the Sheffield style . |
| 27 | Aylwin , however , stated that he did not wish to accept such an offer , nor did he feel that it was justified , given that he had agreed to be elected for a four-year period and that to alter the term of office ( by amending the Constitution ) " would be to change the rules of play of our democratic co-existence " . |
| 28 | The human being ( a far more complex creature inhabiting a far more complex world ) needs to be highly adaptive and has a long period of play in which to build up a vast repertoire of behaviours . |
| 29 | In the early periods of play in our example this is precisely what happens . |
| 30 | What do you feel about working in the more modern style of play after your classical work with Stratford ? |