Example sentences of "[noun] of [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A good deal of it to the east of the Cherwell remains in use as a main road ( A41 and A4095 ) , the only important break in the line being caused by the growth of the Saxon town of Bicester , a mile to the north , in place of the now-vanished Romano-British town of Alchester . |
2 | I see , so that measures the speed of them across the screen this way you can time it . |
3 | We had enough of Blobby yesterday , without any mention of him on the programme again . |
4 | Although there is no mention of it on the map , I could swear that the tiny loch has a crannog in it . |
5 | When a recording is ‘ live ’ , as this one is , it should say so on the cover , and if that 's too difficult or exhausting there should be mention of it at the beginning of the booklet . |
6 | ‘ That was n't in my contract , and there was no mention of it in the programme Giles and Cavell have outlined for me either . ’ |
7 | A photograph of him as the Devil ( not in female disguise ) shows him poised on one foot , the other leg bent so that his whole body is tilted eccentrically . |
8 | There 'd been a photograph of it in the paper , across someone 's hedge , its wings in a tree . |
9 | Morgan found confirmation of it in the fact that the people he had studied in most detail — the Iroquois — happened to be matrilineal . |
10 | You refer to a recent study of mine on the success and failure of leveraged buyouts . |
11 | Michael Heseltine had his own way at the Department of the Environment and will continue to do so at Trade and Industry , where supporters of his during the leadership contest have been given junior positions . |
12 | ‘ Randy 's got a slower pony in this chukka , who wo n't like Dopey taking a piece of him in the line-out one bit . ’ |
13 | ‘ Parks that car of hers on the roadside and just roams . |
14 | He 's a sort of help and partner , and he 's had part of the rearing of her from the time I took her , and his advice is always sensible . |
15 | He told me that if I did n't agree to marry you he 'd release that tape of his to the Press … ’ |
16 | Two young Romanians came and stood on either side of me at the mirror . |
17 | Her cousin always coaxed a lighter side of her to the surface . |
18 | ‘ I did n't know you were such a strong swimmer , ’ he huffed , trapping her at the side of the pool with his arms each side of her on the bar . |
19 | She was telling them a story , and they were sitting on either side of her on the sofa with their mouths hanging slightly open , Gawain meditatively fingering a lock of her long , dark hair , Damian staring at her and absently scratching his balls . |
20 | But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other . |
21 | And it 's important for me to clear that side of it on the basis that you have no responsibility for setting the assignments up . |
22 | All the pictures of us on the beach , with got all . |
23 | They were so close now he could feel the wind of them on the back of his neck . |
24 | Now I want you to place that rock of yours in the centre of my circle . ’ |
25 | At lower gas pressures and higher energy density ionization of He in the discharge becomes more important , and He(II) emission lines , due to transitions of He + ions , become progressively stronger . |
26 | But when Prince rocks out it 's because that 's as much a part of him as the funk strut . |
27 | She said , you silly little git , he said it 's an actor taking the part of him in the film ! |
28 | His energies were never enormous , but limited though they were , he used a large part of them outside the business . |
29 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |
30 | 9.1.6 the Tenant has any distress or execution levied on [ its ] goods the Landlord may re-enter the Premises ( or any part of them in the name of the whole ) at any time ( and even if any previous right of re-entry has been waived ) and then the Term will absolutely cease but without prejudice to any rights or remedies which may have accrued to the Landlord against the Tenant or the Guarantor [ or to the Tenant against the Landlord ] in respect of any breach of covenant or other term of this Lease ( including the breach in respect of which the re-entry is made ) All leases will , or should , contain a forfeiture provision which is usually in the form of a proviso reserving to the landlord a right of re-entry in the event of non-payment of rent , breach of covenant or circumstances resulting in , or likely to give rise to , the probability of the tenant being unable to perform its obligations under the lease , eg bankruptcy or liquidation . |