Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They became great friends and when they did that film in Africa they had a 15-hundredweight truck behind them absolutely full of whisky that followed them everywhere they went . |
| 2 | She poured herself one last mouthful of whisky and tossed it back . |
| 3 | He drove his Volvo to a beauty spot last month , drank most of a bottle of whisky and gassed himself with fumes from the car 's exhaust . |
| 4 | One night he drank a lot of whisky and told me I was gone off . |
| 5 | I snatched my miniature of whisky and lifted it towards the raised glasses at home , before stepping outside to watch those stars to the left of Polaris which would be blinking over Manchester . |
| 6 | He rushed home with his hot food , mixed a lemon and honey with a large dash of whisky and proceeded to open his parcel . |
| 7 | He took another sip of whisky and gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling . |
| 8 | Charles poured himself a large slug of whisky and downed it . |
| 9 | Cinzia brought them both large measures of whisky and sat down astride the wicker chair in front of the writing desk , facing him over the ridged wooden back . |
| 10 | Only the Sikh men seemed to have other things on their mind as , twirling their moustaches , they downed great tumblers of whisky and tried to lure the prettiest girls on to the dance floor . |
| 11 | He grabbed the nearest bottle of whisky and poured a measure into a glass , watching her over the rim . |
| 12 | Durrell took a slug of whisky and broke into an immediate ‘ I 'm not able to begin ‘ ta / praise the wondrous Araminta /I would like to say with flourish /what kind thoughts of her I nourish /A tangle though my thoughts get inta / describing love as Araminta ’ . |
| 13 | Liberal Democrat Peter Allen has accused his fellow candidates of mud-slinging and claims neither Labour nor the Conservatives have offered a vision of the future . |
| 14 | Depression now wrapped itself about her , making concentration difficult , while the thought of Silas holding Doreen in his arms brought a sudden flare of honesty that caused her to admit she was jealous . |
| 15 | The public interest would hardly suffer by the curtailment of temptations to give or accept credit which were likely to follow the abolition of so dubious a guarantee of honesty as furnished by the liability to imprisonment . |
| 16 | He began to sweat , a weird cold extrusion of moisture that began to trickle down his face . |
| 17 | The nights grew colder , but in the early morning the rising sun was caught a thousand times in the droplets of moisture that formed in the webs that spiders wove across the bars of Creggan 's cage . |
| 18 | Many sacks use texturised nylon fabrics with a sort of natural feel which can take up a certain amount of moisture but dry off quickly . |
| 19 | The greatest value of all such bulk matter , however , is not in the nutrient content , but in its effect on the soil structure , its retention of moisture and harbouring of the bacteria . |
| 20 | ‘ Big , Bold and Beautiful , ’ Alex said , ignoring this piece of egomania and looking at Helena . |
| 21 | The need to finance the cost of unity and damp down its inflationary effect has pushed up German — and therefore European — interest rates and exacerbated recession . |
| 22 | What is the solution to these problems of unity and sustaining interest ? I think it can best be found by looking at the visual arts , and having myself once been an architect I would like to use an architectural illustration . |
| 23 | A lively tour of continental culture , seeking for signs of unity and predicting a grim future . |
| 24 | A lively tour of continental culture , seeking for signs of unity and predicting a grim future . |
| 25 | His letters to Helen , in particular , uncover the head for business , the punctilious sense of irritable rightness , and the concomitant sudden bouts of self-distrust that marched alongside his desire for an extended life of idealized perfection , similar to the intense moments of joyful peace he had discovered for himself during walks . |
| 26 | It was a standard opening — the kind of play that made no real difference to the final outcome — yet somehow the boy made it seem a challenge . |
| 27 | THE WELSH are closing in on the standards of play that immortalised the sixties and seventies as the golden age of their rugby . |
| 28 | ‘ We certainly wo n't be changing our style of play and getting involved in a forward battle . ’ |
| 29 | He enjoyed Forest 's style of play and respected Clough 's brand of management . |
| 30 | We are able to become objective observers of the patterns of play and to take pleasure in their endless variations on central themes . |