Example sentences of "[verb] of [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often this is because they fail to understand what is expected of them under the broad , general duties of the Health and Safety at Work Act . |
| 2 | Theoretically one can have the best materials taught by the best teachers , but although a number of films have been made , and probably will continue to be made , they have not had the success that was expected of them in the fifties . |
| 3 | Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould . |
| 4 | Robbie could think of nothing but the deep growing ache around which every sense seemed focused . |
| 5 | How curious that she could now think of him without the tiniest pang ; it was as if the shadow of Max had been totally eclipsed by the substance of Luke — with all its ramifications . |
| 6 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 7 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 8 | The Butcher remained a vivid memory because , apart from my ordeal , I was constantly remanded of him by the dangerous wobbling of my pipe at the edge of that needless gap in my mouth . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know how you can even speak of her in the same breath . ’ |
| 10 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 11 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 12 | She had thought of it as the happiest day of her life , a day with only a small shadow upon it , an insignificant wisp of fear , nothing to disturb the joy . |
| 13 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |
| 14 | After carrying out a survey of the number of people who have died of it over the past three years , COHSE 's Scottish regional officer , Jim Devine , said the union believed many low-paid workers and pensioners were forced to make a choice between eating and heating . |
| 15 | The atmosphere consisted of nothing but the noxious fumes of burnt bodies : the recyclers could n't cope . |
| 16 | Aha and that gets rid of it from the front page . |
| 17 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
| 18 | He openly talked of him as the probable successor to the see of Canterbury . |
| 19 | She had forgotten that her papa was supposed to be dead , and had spoken of him in the present tense , a fact not wasted on Dr Neil , who made no comment , but asked politely , ‘ And does all this stockmarket bargaining mean that you are going to make me a cup of tea , or not ? |
| 20 | I 'll have to spirit you away to my cave , and dispose of you on the white-slave market , just like wicked old Hasan . ’ |
| 21 | I thought of nothing except the great happiness of being with him for ever . |
| 22 | His name was Bartholemew Burton , but everyone thought of him as the little 'un . |
| 23 | I thought of us as the little princes in the Tower , and of the city of London as the cruel torturer Hubert who at any moment might come and put out our poetic eyes . |
| 24 | Julia tried to obey , as she tried to do everything he demanded of her over the next few days and as she tried to keep her misery and pain and fear from all of them . |
| 25 | His regiment 's chaplain spoke of him in the warmest terms as a man of the highest principles . |
| 26 | When I reached the House of Andrus I spoke of it to the other women and we said a prayer . |
| 27 | Think of yourself on the 19th ( the day of the full Moon ) . |
| 28 | I think of them as the sea-bird equivalent of a peregrine or other member of the falcon family . |
| 29 | ‘ I think of him as the big brother I never had . ’ |
| 30 | The 460,000 Antwerpers think of themselves as the liveliest and most sociable of Belgians . |