Example sentences of "of [pers pn] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’ |
| 2 | He went on admiring them in the face of the snobbish dismissal of them by many artists of the Hague school , who sneered at woodcuts as ‘ those things you find in the South Holland Café . ’ |
| 3 | Before Lord George obtained this command , however , his inability to render the services expected of him by some of the family 's political friends was a liability , and was seen as such by Montrose , who wrote with some anxiety to deny allegations that the son of another gentleman of the region was serving in Lord George 's ship , but was on board the flagship of the admiral . |
| 4 | The despatches that mapped every move he planned went into Wales ahead of him by this same route . |
| 5 | He now proposed that the fundamental gut decision of whether the paper should be tabloid or broadsheet be tested by market research , until he was finally talked out of it by another newly recruited professional — Clive Thornton , lately of Mirror Group Newspapers . |
| 6 | NCR Corp has finally abandoned the traditional mainframe business , driven out of it by another company that is hanging on in there by its fingernails . |
| 7 | Of course , where there is true consent by the owner of property to the appropriation of it by another , a charge of theft under section 1(1) must fail . |
| 8 | We were in a hole and are n't out of it by any means . |
| 9 | With his old-fashioned grace Murphy even mentioned in at least two speeches that he wondered whether the World Cup , and the impassioned pursuit of it by some countries , was really a good thing after all . |
| 10 | ‘ At this hour I imagine she 's fast asleep in bed — unless , like me , she 's been ripped out of it by some hooligan ! ’ |
| 11 | I READ your reply to the £10 letter re medical treatment or the proposed determent of it by some doctors , and I was completely astounded by the lack of logic in the statement ‘ have helped themselves to get there . ’ |
| 12 | Dick Crossman had been kept out of office or the expectation of it by both Attlee , who could not forgive him for resisting Bevin 's policy towards Palestine , and his successor . |