Example sentences of "of [indef pn] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It has been exploited to a degree by all human beings to hurt and control each other , and has affected the lives of everyone that has ever lived . |
| 2 | Anyway this woman , the problematic one , stopped me in full view of everyone and handed me this folded piece of paper . |
| 3 | What did irritate me was the old crusty-type who went through the motions of standing in front of everyone and asking them if they ‘ had any spare change for an old dosser ’ . |
| 4 | What did irritate me was the old crusty-type who went through the motions of standing in front of everyone and asking them if they ‘ had any spare change for an old dosser ’ . |
| 5 | I do n't like the idea of getting up in front of everyone and saying : ‘ I 'm a junkie . |
| 6 | Nedim boasts that he is afraid of nothing and says the Serb fighters who call themselves |
| 7 | So now he lay on his back and thought of nothing and took his pulse from time to time . |
| 8 | Subjectivism in faith makes something out of nothing and turns fiction into fact . |
| 9 | Henry Fonda was apparently heard to say of his son , ‘ That little bastard … he and some other punks have produced a movie out of nothing and have made more money from that piece of crap than I have made in a whole lifetime in Hollywood . ’ |
| 10 | Bernice shook loose the amiable scrap of nothing and watched as it fluttered away , lost in moments in the gentle glow of Moloch 's endless day . |
| 11 | In none of these cases can the inanimate subject of help be conceived as relaxing , coming round , getting in ahead of someone or discharging duties . |
| 12 | And that is copied from a picture of one that survives . |
| 13 | If you prefer one day 's menu to another , make a note of this and return to it in place of one that does n't take your fancy . |
| 14 | I stopped in a little restaurant and ordered a hot dog by pointing at a picture of one that hung over the greasy counter . |
| 15 | NEW UK OLYMPIC COMPANY RISES FROM THE ASHES OF ONE THAT CRASHED IN JANUARY |
| 16 | The lectern at the Guildhall is a classic example of one that looks beautiful but is too small and fragile to use . |
| 17 | Er and I , as Mr Curtis has suggested , if Mr Shepherd who conducted the greenbelt local plan enquiry decided on massive relaxation or substantial relaxation on the inner boundary , er of the greenbelt , er and the implication being that er some of that land could be made available for housing , then yes , as a matter of principal that would cast doubt on the new settlement er strategy in terms of the in terms of the numbers , conversely , if you look at another option , if you , for example , confirmed the new settlement strategy but thought that the development requirement for Greater York really was er needed to be larger than nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , twelve thousand , thirteen thousand , and I hope not , then the County Council would need to have a look at the issue of one as opposed to two new settlements , and again we will do that , and we will not take any decisions on the basis of having one report , er but not another , and I hope er that that is helpful , I can confirm that er at the end of this month the Greater York authorities will be meeting , erm and er they will be urgently looking towards erm progress erm on this issue . |
| 18 | Hérard Abraham , to " help us get rid of everything that threatens democracy by applying the law and discipline " . |
| 19 | Hidden in the cost of everything that goes by road in London is a tax imposed by congestion . |
| 20 | But the relevant sense of constraint , and the aspects of society that are constrained in the two cases , are vastly different ; and if the longue durée is to be more than a ragbag of everything that endures these disparities would have to be elucidated . |
| 21 | What was said tongue-in-cheek was received as confirmation of everything that had gone before : the Prince of Wales was seriously out of his tree . |
| 22 | He had succeeded in pleasing her in spite of everything that had happened . |
| 23 | But North himself , on the point of abandoning the operation , begging to be moved on ‘ to other things ’ , made plain the point of everything that had gone before : ‘ Wd very much like to give RR two hostages that he can take credit for . ’ |
| 24 | Thomas Carter came right out and told you that he thought England was the only truly civilized country in the world and that as the most English of English cities , Oxford was its heart and soul , the core of everything that had formed us , the repository of our values and the guarantor of our standards , an expression in stone of our whole Western civilization , a cultural Stonehenge which , etc , etc . |
| 25 | 1984–87 — house music and the electronic transformation in Chicago of everything that had gone before . |
| 26 | He was acutely aware of everything that had gone on in front of the then roaring fire . |
| 27 | She was the incarnation of everything that had gone amiss in Sylvie 's own life . |
| 28 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
| 29 | ‘ I guess I threw myself at you because of everything that had happened between Jonathan and myself ; I guess I was just looking for a diversion and you happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 30 | I think coming from my working-class background , I was frightened of everything that had a vague look of an institution about it . |