Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he looked rather bemused when Mr Bell started ad-libbing that if the Sunday Times wanted to pen a profile of the self-styled King of the Corner Shop then ‘ for God 's sake get a better picture of me than The Northern Echo is using . ’ |
| 2 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
| 3 | ‘ I want this country to be so proud of me that the Queen will give me one of her crowns . |
| 4 | It was a Saturday night and I had a fortnight of holiday ahead of me while the Airds were unexpectedly away , not to speak of the obligatory Sunday to get through , the one that would have fallen to me in any case . |
| 5 | Maybe Antonietta herself will tire of me when the novelty wears off . |
| 6 | We went on a few yards , then I held back to let her go ahead of me where the path was narrowest . |
| 7 | I mean I … you know I do talk quite openly to my pupils which is a little daring of me because the situation in Cyprus is a little different from here … |
| 8 | Whenever I had a sheet of paper in front of me and a paintbrush or pencil in my hand , the result was inevitable . |
| 9 | Once the exams were over I had the whole summer free in front of me and a host of new friends to pass it with the idea made me extremely happy . |
| 10 | I feel a lively lump inside of me and a need to keep it vital ; to keep on running though I am panting and sweating like a sore animal ; to encase it in life , to keep it moving . |
| 11 | I gobbled them down — there was a whole day ahead of me and no guarantee of food — and washed them down with water . |
| 12 | When Dennis summoned us to table , I ended up with Karen on one side of me and the computer analyst 's wife on the other . |
| 13 | I look at the dark house in front of me and the screens of tall shrubs and young trees on either side concealing the two neighbouring villas . |
| 14 | What 's going to become of me and the boys , eh ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Marius was thinking of changing his will in favour of me and the baby . ’ |
| 16 | I shook my hair back and waved my arms above my head as Pike mopped and mowed in front of me and the band struck up an impromptu tune . |
| 17 | We were outside the Arms , walking along the pavement past the Bank , Jamie on one side of me and the girl on the other . |
| 18 | It may involve the agency 's casting team ( which may be a specialist in a large agency , but is usually the creative group head and the TV producer in a small one ) in seemingly endless poring over directories of actors , and actually seeing a large number of them before a decision can be made . |
| 19 | Some warriors also seized nine bewildered tourists , wounding two of them before the chiefs interceded . |
| 20 | If the beach is crowded with swimmers , sail well clear of them since a board travelling even at low speed could do severe damage to someone 's head . |
| 21 | You should make full use of them since the sail should be tight . |
| 22 | He did n't know what was happening between Gesner and Suzi any more , had n't seen either of them since the Season began , since that dreadful scene at Willi 's party , but he knew he had to submit himself to yet another bout of torture and watch them together on the stage . |
| 23 | Their pay and conditions are miserable and there are far more of them than the army can usefully employ . |
| 24 | More er and more in a month some of them than the others did in a year . |
| 25 | It was perfectly clear to all four of them that the forensic skills , the intellectual abilities , the sheer weight of grey cellular matter , the brutalizing experience of countless similar quests , possessed by the real experts was infinitely greater than that of the mere professionals . |
| 26 | There were so many of them that the strain of trying to recognise each one started to give him a headache . |
| 27 | The rats were hanging from the rope , and there were so many of them that the rope was swinging backwards and forwards . |
| 28 | Hut 6 dealt with the recording of intercepts of German army and air force Enigma , and the decoding of them after the key of the day had been determined from the brilliant deductions of the code-breakers . |
| 29 | The Speaker is nominally chairman of each of them but the actual work of chairing is undertaken by deputy chairmen , who are superior court judges . |
| 30 | Durance was weary of both of them but the price of their silence was as high as the price of Sabine Jourdain 's . |