Example sentences of "[verb] of [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could he think of abandoning her to the malevolent clutches of this voracious monster ? |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Have you ever thought of knitting them on a larger scale ? |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
| 9 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 10 | ‘ I would n't dream of taking them before a race . ’ |
| 11 | Do you dream of making it to the top of the corporate tree whilst still short of the tooth and long in ideas ? |
| 12 | It is curious how agents only rarely think of providing you with a plan on a voluntary basis . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I was thinking of putting her to a very nice stallion I 've seen in the district , ’ she said . |
| 16 | Parish calls it ‘ a love story that just goes through a few crazy things ’ , but he 's under selling it ; Time Warner so liked the film it is thinking of turning it into a TV series with Parrish in the starring role . |
| 17 | As a matter of fact , I 'm thinking of offering her to The Lancet . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's what comes of feeding them at the table , ’ Michele remarked . |