Example sentences of "of [indef pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | American poets can be so thunderstruck by the sheer oddity of being a poet in America at all that they often deny to the poet , in advance , any claim to represent a people or even a social class ; and classic New York drama in this century , as in the plays of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller , has concentrated painfully and insistently on the pre-eminence of family ties and the ineluctable need of everyone in that world to be loved , as they continuously imply , by their closest relatives . |
| 2 | ‘ You seem to think of nothing but this James Dreme ’ . |
| 3 | Never fear , messieurs , we shall have this mystery solved in time of nothing at all . |
| 4 | Her mind was capable of thinking of nothing at all . |
| 5 | They will either complain of nothing at all or perhaps of vulval soreness and a nasty discharge in that area . |
| 6 | Flavia could think of nothing at all to say . |
| 7 | But the cold had numbed her senses and all her ingenuity and she could think of nothing at all to do about that . |
| 8 | She tried to think of nothing at all , but found her mind drifting back to that one subject all the time . |
| 9 | but as for the dead they have conscious of nothing at all |
| 10 | Taczek told me he could think of nothing from those times that would have made Mills any sort of target for a KGB assassin — or any other sort of assassin come to that . ’ |
| 11 | She only had two days left , and the thought of nothing after that made her shiver with dread . |
| 12 | His smile deepened as he added , ‘ I have been told that I am a good lover and I can think of nothing in this world that would give me greater pleasure than to teach you the plaisirs d'amour . |
| 13 | He disappeared into his cabin and , with the air of someone with all the time in the world , set about checking Loretta 's bona fides . |
| 14 | It makes one wonder about that when one hears of someone of such frailty being pursued and put in prison for failing to pay a tax that everyone recognises was nonsensical from the moment that it was introduced . |
| 15 | ‘ To think of someone in that station of life resorting to blackmail ! ’ |
| 16 | While there has perhaps been a tendency to over-emphasise health and safety issues in risk management at the expense of others , the weight of legislation in this area has led to the appointment of someone in this role almost as a priority . |
| 17 | You do n't want to run the risk of someone like that getting at you , so steer right away from any of the sorts of activities listed above . |
| 18 | Hobbes found it remarkable that some , but not all , things had conscious awareness and perception : ‘ Of all the phenomena or appearances which are near us , the most admirable is apparition itself … namely , that some natural bodies have in themselves the patterns almost of all things , and others of none at all . ’ |
| 19 | This has led inevitably to situations where everyone has two or three deputies instead of none at all . |
| 20 | She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship . |
| 21 | None of none of none of those have phone numbers but all of them have some sort of address . |
| 22 | Members of MoneySavers gain the privileges of * Priority Booking — up to two weeks in advance of public booking * The Playhouse " What 's On " brochure sent direct to you in advance of public distribution * Free membership of The Stage Door Club and most important of all * Two seats for the price of one on most Monday and Tuesday evenings in the Main House and for many first nights in the Studio Theatre . |
| 23 | Thus transactions between residents of two countries each using its own units of account necessitates the exchange of one for another . |
| 24 | One subject used a wide range of accident estimates but gave a risk rating of one at all 40 junctions . |
| 25 | I fear however in view of what we 've heard from the two sides of the table , you will have rather more difficulty in coming even to a recommendation as to specific guidance on which sector of Greater York , this new settlement should be located if indeed you are minded to recommend in favour of one at all . |
| 26 | It is just because paradigms have such a persuasive influence on the science practised within them that the replacement of one by another must be a revolutionary one . |
| 27 | Thereafter they practised together until the latter 's death in 1852 , and it is not always possible to distinguish the work of one from that of the other . |
| 28 | He , he balanced the strengths of one against another |
| 29 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 30 | I mean , everybody took loads of everything in those days but if you have an incredible tour schedule and you can find a way of having extra energy , which you can get with cocaine , you overdo it if you have n't ever had it before in such huge quantities , and you 're that big , and girls come to the dressing room afterwards , and everybody gives you free packets , and suddenly you 're everybody 's pal . |