Example sentences of "[noun] of [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
2 | Victor Wellington said there was a ring of yours on the dead woman 's left hand . ’ |
3 | As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment . |
4 | However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all . |
5 | The photograph of her with the older woman was well done , though . |
6 | But the resurgence of nationalism in Europe and in other parts of the world , in diverse forms , has made this once again a major issue for political analysis , and I shall return to various aspects of it in the next chapter . |
7 | When the chicken leg is cooked , cook the stuffing by the side of it on the same plate , according to the instructions on the packet . |
8 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
9 | More might be attempted ( Ayer , 1954a ; Alston , 1976 ; Hannay , 1979 ; Wilkes , I 978 ) but we have , I submit , gone some way in analysing consciousness with the general conception of it as the interdependent existence of subject and content . |
10 | ‘ You 're right into the teeth of it over the first five holes . |
11 | United certainly made a fight of it in the second half but their finishing was poor . |
12 | What is certain is that the corn milling firm of Reynolds and Allen were using at least part of it during the 1860s . |
13 | Is he aware that what he achieved , or failed to achieve , might please the little Englanders behind him but will be a tragedy for the people of the United Kingdom and the Scottish part of it through the 1990s ? |
14 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
15 | The article gives the possibility of legal action against individual sellers or suppliers , or groups of them from the same economic sector , or against their trade associations . |
16 | In the 1980s , the world wood requirement was some 3000 million m 3 , of which , following earlier figures , some 47% was used as fuel ( 80% of it in the developing world ) , 43% for building and other ‘ solid wood ’ purposes ( two-thirds of this in the developed world ) and 10% for paper ( some seven-eighths of this used in the developed world ) . |
17 | In 1980–81 , for example , there were 62,000 students in Wales following non-advanced courses , the majority of them in the 35 colleges , as compared with 14,000 on advanced courses . |
18 | Dickens has an horrific description of it in The Old Curiosity , Shop ( 1841 ) , when it had reached the rock bottom of filth and ugliness , and of human degradation . |
19 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
20 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
21 | ‘ I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past half-hour ! ’ |
22 | I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past two hours ! ’ the man exclaimed harshly as he stared down at Laura , who was gazing back at him as though she 'd seen a ghost . |
23 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
24 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
25 | There is a portrait of him in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society , vol. lxxix , 1953 . |
26 | In the autumn , the sweeping tracts of it on the lower , treeless hillsides are the colour of rust , and it is then that it is scythed down , to provide bedding for the animals during the winter and , once suitably impregnated , fertilizer for the fields the following spring — in a neat ecological cycle . |
27 | One of the most illuminating insights into the character of Frederick Barbarossa comes from the descriptions of him in the Fourth Book of Bishop Otto von Freising and from Rahewin , his twelfth-century biographer . |
28 | Then , bracing herself , she strode to the top of the staircase and stood gazing down the wide , sweeping curve of it to the imposing hallway and the big front door . |
29 | The answer to that question , and the implications of it for the British polity of the 1980s , will form the basis of the final chapter . |
30 | It is a legitimate debate and of course the parroting of it as the only way forward is inappropriate to serious people trying to discuss that . |