Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Start from the layby next to the Dundonnell River which is two and a half miles south of Dundonnell on the A832 . |
| 2 | It will be overseeing the installation of a small-scale hydro-electric generating scheme bringing heating and lighting to the village of Mango in the foothills of the Karakoram range . |
| 3 | When the householders learned that the completion of the contract marked the start of Ron 's retirement after 35 years , they clubbed together to buy him a carriage clock and bottle of whisky as a thank you gift to remember them by . |
| 4 | Freddie poured a measure of whisky into a coronation mug . |
| 5 | I poured a slug of whisky into the glass . |
| 6 | Eventually the yacht 's crew was arrested near Bristol and we unloaded the yacht in their absence , taking off twenty four cases of whisky during a hilarious evening operation involving our respective motor boats to ferry the goods back to Poole Quay . |
| 7 | The curse was only employed twice — once against the magistrate who fined my father £100 and took away his publican 's licence for receiving a stolen lorry load of whisky during the war . |
| 8 | He had an electric kettle , some lemons , a pot of honey and a bottle of whisky beside the bed , to make himself soothing drinks . |
| 9 | Hence the glass of whisky at the dispatch box rather than mineral water : A premature celebration ? |
| 10 | David Perry , 35 , of Buttermere Avenue , Orford , Gary Toony , 25 , of Kendal Avenue , Orford , and Steven Lea , 27 , of St David 's Drive , Callands , all Warrington , admitted the theft of cases of whisky at the town 's Crown Court . |
| 11 | An elderly man sat at a table beside an open fire , a large pint of beer and a small glass of whisky on the table , an alsatian stretched out asleep at his feet . |
| 12 | That is the equivalent of weighing a fully-laden oil supertanker so accurately that a contraband bottle of whisky in the captain 's cabin would register on the scales . |
| 13 | I remember doing the mate 's cabin and being mildly surprised to find two cartons of cigarettes and two bottles of whisky in an obvious place under the bottom drawer of his bunk . |
| 14 | The hammer lock kept my head down , but I could see he was carrying a bottle of whisky by the neck . |
| 15 | In Bailiffs of Dunwich v. Sterry , the plaintiffs had the right to wrecks at Dunwich and the defendant took a cask of whisky from a wreck before the plaintiffs could get it . |
| 16 | Ash and I levered our way through the press of people while I undid my jacket and struggled to extricate my half-bottle of whisky from a side pocket . |
| 17 | When he came home , he took a bottle of whisky from a cupboard and began to drink . |
| 18 | He fished out a bottle of whisky from a kit-bag , and cleaned two glasses on his towel . |
| 19 | The man sitting at the other end of the bench took a quarter-bottle of whisky from the pocket of his torn donkey-jacket , twisted off the gold tin top and took a swig . |
| 20 | That was a case in which the defendant took two bottles of whisky from the shelves and put them in her shopping bag . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , yes , performance , ’ he murmured , taking another great gulp of whisky from the glass in his left hand , still holding her tightly with his right . |
| 22 | Black let out a sigh then produced a bottle of whisky from the bottom drawer of his desk . |
| 23 | He took the bottle of whisky from the dresser and poured himself a drink . |
| 24 | She picked up a barely touched bottle of whisky from the dining-room table , frowning faintly as she studied its label . |
| 25 | In Gloucestershire the average man in the vale , situated between the Cotswold Edge and the river Severn , was half as much again better off as in the Forest of Dean across the river ( see Table 2.2 ) . |
| 26 | Forest of Dean above the River Wye |
| 27 | Foreign dependants of the Court continued to be appointed to important Forest wardenships — such as Amaury de St Amand , Steward of the Household 1233–40 , who was also warden of the Forest of Dean during the greater part of that time , and Peter Chaceporc , the able Poitevin Keeper of the Wardrobe 1241–54 , who was appointed to the same wardenship in May 1248 . |
| 28 | Reading , by the early nineteenth century , was receiving coal from the Midlands via the Oxford Canal and from the Forest of Dean via the Kennet and Avon , but the main beneficiaries were the inland coalfields themselves and the areas adjacent to them . |
| 29 | As explained in Chapter 2 , from September 1981 a permanent Dean replaced an elected Head of Department in the role of Dean of the Modular Course . |
| 30 | It was on ‘ evidence ’ such as this that a Gloucestershire jury on 22 May 1300 reduced the Forest of Dean to the king 's demesne lands and woods . |