Example sentences of "[verb] of [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 2 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 3 | How could he think of abandoning her to the malevolent clutches of this voracious monster ? |
| 4 | But if I were Ben Hogan , and a Bob Hamilton or Willie Goggin chipped in to beat me in The Masters , a Walter Burkemo holed a sand shot to swipe the PGA , a raw rookie — pick one — holed a 7-iron to beat me somewhere in Florida and then the like of a Bud Holscher or a Shelley Mayfield holed yet another sand shot to steal yet another victory , then I 'd not only be scouring the Fort Worth Yellow Pages looking for the nearest shrink , I might even think of tossing myself under a freight train in the nearest marshalling yard . |
| 5 | Our instincts tell us to beware of abandoning ourselves to the care of someone else . |
| 6 | And all the undertakings we might speak of reduce themselves to a single one , that of making history . |
| 7 | For those who ‘ liked a job to do ’ there was the distribution of food and clothing and fuel , and there were some who did it honestly and others who were suspected of turning it into a ‘ racket ’ . |
| 8 | But never before has Moses been accused of lording it over the people ( some words of Korah in verse 3 of this same chapter come close to such a charge ) and never before has Egypt been called ‘ a land flowing with milk and honey ’ . |
| 9 | And Chancellor Norman Lamont was last night accused of sunning himself as the economy sinks into deeper gloom . |
| 10 | The party bureaucrats were accused of turning themselves into a new bourgeoisie whose revolutionary spirit had given way to capitalist tendencies . |
| 11 | Have you ever thought of knitting them on a larger scale ? |
| 12 | Beware of over-committing yourself to the foot sweep . |
| 13 | it 's completely anonymous number you know it 's only to be on that , said I 'll wipe it off then , you bloody well wo n't , I think he wants to tell people before he can say very wrong , could say something personal , if it was personal , no longer it , no you were n't personal to you , but I 'm quite happy to arrange it if you wish , no , no , no , no , no , , I should n't have to tell you not to take my points in full , there we go it 's driving me doing that in the factory having without people 's permission , I want to know , I ask permission if I 'd er wanted to as a without being asked to do it , I would of gone and seen personnel and asked , I would not of dreamed of doing it in a work 's situation unless I was asked , say anything personal I 'd turned it off not that it , apart from me and Stuart |
| 14 | However , she could not avoid it at The Tamarisks , for although Fru Møller offered a generous choice of hors d'œuvres and puddings she did not provide a choice of main course and Elisabeth would not have dreamt of placing herself at a disadvantage by drawing attention to her disability and pleading for something easier than steak to swallow . |
| 15 | But the cubicle in which the yellow sheet had been found could reveal no further secrets , and all hope had early been abandoned of learning anything from the scores of footprints which had criss-crossed the grassy area since the murder . |
| 16 | Since the egg can not enter the oviduct , the treatment consists of removing it from the ovary prior to ovulation , fertilizing it in the laboratory , and placing the proembryo into the uterus where it has a chance to implant . |
| 17 | Testing consists of identifying which of the known ones which of the known er sub-patterns er occur in my new input . |
| 18 | He met two artists , husband and wife , ‘ awfully sweet , she has a bold yet subtle and exotic sense of colour ’ , and thought of trying her for the costumes ; he had already got another artist to try and ‘ you never saw such revue in all your life ’ . |
| 19 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
| 20 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 21 | I thought of presenting myself at the docks and saying that my pocket had been picked … but I lacked the impudence to carry it off . |
| 22 | And I thought of putting something in the paper , asking anyone born on April the tenth that year at Thorn House to get in touch . |
| 23 | ‘ I would n't dream of taking them before a race . ’ |
| 24 | Do you dream of making it to the top of the corporate tree whilst still short of the tooth and long in ideas ? |
| 25 | She knows she could have gone much further but would not dream of stabbing anyone in the back to get on , even if they deserved it . |
| 26 | It is curious how agents only rarely think of providing you with a plan on a voluntary basis . |
| 27 | Until you know someone , you should beware of putting yourself into a position where you may be trapped , pestered , or embarrassed . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , exactly — ’ she hrumphed some more — ‘ I said she was still going to be in Maidstone for a few days though we were thinking of moving her to a private hospital . |
| 30 | ‘ I was thinking of putting her to a very nice stallion I 've seen in the district , ’ she said . |