Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little drop of whisky does you good . |
| 2 | Can a positive image of lesbianism promote it ? |
| 3 | As far as quality of play went it was probably the worst since I took over . ’ |
| 4 | The style of play suits him . |
| 5 | Now when you do this sort of assessment do you take into consideration the amount of money I have to pay to go and stay a night at a place like this ? |
| 6 | Figure 2 shows that as well as providing values of isotope shifts we can use RFS to measure the amount , or abundance , of a particular isotope in a sample . |
| 7 | She heard the key turn in the lock and a fear that was just short of primitive assailed her . |
| 8 | Graham was supported by Manchester City boss Peter Reid who said : ‘ Wright 's a quality player , the sort of striker to keep you on your toes . ’ |
| 9 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 10 | Gave him a stiff sentence in a House of Correction to teach him better ways . |
| 11 | On July 27 , 1989 , the Pakistani Minister of State for Finance , Ehsanul Haq Piracha , opening the third session of the Nepal-Pakistan Joint Economic Commission in Kathmandu , assured Nepal of support to help it overcome problems resulting from the trade blockade with India . |
| 12 | The rate of change makes it shudder on the branches of the trees where it stands to attention in its sterile , tightly packed commercial rows . |
| 13 | Nobody 's listening but I insist : ‘ This fairness of skin obliges them to shield themselves so that if they do catch the sun they avoid the obvious danger of peeling . |
| 14 | If a gully is overflowing , try to unblock the grid using a length of stick to clean it out and rinse the gully clean |
| 15 | ‘ Easy — a stroke of genius hit me at the height of the bombing , General . |
| 16 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |
| 17 | By shaving they have an aerodynamic advantage because the absence of hair helps them to go faster . |
| 18 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 19 | For example , what , if any , knowledge is required on the part of a payer at the time of payment to entitle him to recovery at a later date ? |
| 20 | Would the daughter even remember her father with the perpetual presence of Hope to blot him out ? |
| 21 | The denial of tenderness cuts them off from communication with wives and children . |
| 22 | A foal requires about one pint of colostrum to give it sufficient antibiotics to help fight neonatal infections . |
| 23 | And a sudden lightness of heart took her . |
| 24 | But it is still too early to be certain , and the jury must remain out until there is sufficient evidence of a true change of heart to distinguish it from the earnest gestures of political expediency . |
| 25 | Each time I asked , you fobbed me off , and now you 're suggesting that I should fix my belief in you without some kind of hook to hang it on . |
| 26 | They have n't been fighting all these years to get rid of communism to see it re-emerge again so you , the confusion continues , as it is in Russia , and then you insinuate the idea that , with the breakdown of social order and so on , you must have a strong man , you must have strong arms and that 's where your Hitlers and your Mussolinis and all these people come through in that little vacuum in between of disorder . |
| 27 | In the whole , as the degree of discrimination increased it was found that reaction time increased at a fairly constant rate . |
| 28 | Carnelian , spying through the eye-screen from wherever , had immediately begun withdrawing the hydra into the warp of Chaos to save it from extinction . |
| 29 | The thick rumbling roar of thunder enveloped them . |
| 30 | Everybody waited , but when the tearing bang of thunder came it was still loud enough to make Agnes jump . |