Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was pigs of majors like you . ’ |
| 2 | EIGHTY factory workers were looking forward to a very merry Christmas — until their boss gave them just one bottle of whisky between them . |
| 3 | You could buy salmon , which I suspect could have come from the King 's Reach skirting Balmoral ) for 2/6d a pound ; and there was no dearth of whisky for which I had yet to acquire a taste . |
| 4 | He laid the pistol down and crossed to the drinks cabinet , pouring glasses of whisky for himself and for Carol . |
| 5 | Sharing a glass of whisky with him in his Montpelier Square home , you were liable to be quizzed about theories of antibody formation , David Bohm 's work , or any one of 101 other topical issues that had caught his attention . |
| 6 | And the ordeal of putting up the lists — he could still feel the brute weight of Allan Stewart 's shoulder jolting him aside , the smell of whisky on his breath , and then the twilit hours lying low beside the minister in the church , waiting for the hubbub outside to die away . |
| 7 | He tugged at the flask of whisky inside his tunic and eventually worked it out . |
| 8 | ‘ Caught the old girl with a bottle of whisky in her bag . |
| 9 | Hundreds of thousands had died in the post-war 'flu epidemic , so anyone who caught it — especially children — was bundled off to bed , as Clare was , with a hot water bottle , some aspirin , and a glass of hot milk with an eggspoonful of whisky in it . |
| 10 | He took to having a daily early-morning nip from a half-bottle of whisky in his hip pocket . |
| 11 | Gregson hung up and sat back on the bed , cradling a glass of whisky in his hand which he 'd poured himself from the room 's mini-bar . |
| 12 | With a balloon bobbing against my left shoulder and sand blowing over my boots , I opened my presents — a hot-water bottle and a small canister of shaving foam from Joan , and the book of Job and a miniature of whisky from my parents . |
| 13 | He produced a full bottle of whisky from his briefcase , poured out three tumblerfuls , and asked if he could have the television on . |
| 14 | He was also delighted to be given a bottle of whisky from his colleagues at Runcorn . |
| 15 | The Gloucestershire jury , for example , in 1228 re-defined the boundaries of the Forest of Dean at their widest extent — that is to say , the rivers Severn and Wye , and a northern boundary running from Goodrich castle in the west through Ross and Newent to Gloucester castle in the east . |
| 16 | This retreat into the safety of headquarters with its separation from reality is the route for these ‘ bastards with no teeth ’ ; it is the rightful place for those ‘ nine-til-five administrators who turn up when real polises have been up and at it for hours , and then ask their daft questions because of their lack of practical experience ’ . |
| 17 | It seems there was some sort of watch on him , yes . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's far too much abuse from players and managers and a lack of honesty about them . |
| 19 | Melanie felt a drop or two of moisture on her face — rain , maybe , or the coagulated damp of the wet night air , or spray from Finn 's regard . |
| 20 | His eyes ran over her suddenly pale face , noting the fine film of moisture on her forehead . |
| 21 | Wiping a slick of moisture from her brow , she reviewed the situation . |
| 22 | My first choice of defenders from what we 've got are O'Leary and Fairclough . |
| 23 | We made our way back across the bridge through the huge puffin colony of lundaland to our comfortable turf-roofed house for a much needed meal . |
| 24 | However , it seems impossible to deny that each of us also has a sense of a self , or a centre of awareness , somehow within and integral to our ongoing experience , and such as to give a kind of unity to it . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , at the GMB conference yesterday , Mr Edmonds made a rousing speech in favour of unity between his union and the Transport and General Workers ' . |
| 26 | The NLD and the UNLD held talks during July aimed at achieving a measure of unity in their opposition to military rule . |
| 27 | The AMF(L) was formed in 1960 when it was decided by NATO that a show of unity amongst its members was necessary in times of international tension . |
| 28 | What the newly planted local church experiences of the joy of unity among its own members , it should also look for with other churches . |
| 29 | First we consider the different kinds of taxes through which the government can raise revenue . |
| 30 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |