Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] of the [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The explorer born 100 years too late , variously described as intrepid and bampot , is now back from his 1,350 mile Antarctic trek , about two-thirds of the weight he was when he started , bushy-bearded , staring of eye , and , as far as we can tell , happy . |
| 2 | ‘ He was very upset about some of the work he was doing . |
| 3 | The ghastly irony was that talking to someone outside helped clarify my feelings and work through some of the guilt I was carrying . |
| 4 | Was n't it about time she put him through some of the agony he 'd caused her ? |
| 5 | It had been written for an age when wind was still the motive power for most of the world 's shipping , so that , though technically out of date , it was invaluable for some of the work I was doing , particularly wire splicing , and if we were rolled over and had to jury-rig the ship it would be a life saver . |
| 6 | Oh , but ’ — he pulled a face — ‘ God 's truth , I would n't suggest you join ENSA , not after some of the stuff we 've seen here . ’ |
| 7 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
| 8 | For example , for much of the day we need to be able to repress or split off some feelings to enable us to concentrate or to use our intellects . |
| 9 | Training at commercial art school will have prepared you for much of the work you will be doing in advertising . |
| 10 | For much of the year they appear barren ; with summer moisture the dried-out cushions and patches of vegetation burst into life , yielding arctic poppies , avens , moss campions , saxifrages — flowers familiar from the arctic desert , here abundant enough to provide a scattering of colourful , threadbare mats . |
| 11 | For much of the broadcast he was answering questions put by two interviewers , but as it was drawing to a close he suddenly began reading from a prepared text , declaring : " I warned in 1987 that Gorbachev has in his character an aspiration for absolute personal power . |
| 12 | Since Richard held Seillan responsible for much of the trouble he refused to release him , either for a ransom or in exchange for prisoners taken by Count Raymond , even though these now included two of King Henry 's household knights , who had apparently wandered into the territory of Toulouse on their way back from the shrine of Compostella . |
| 13 | For much of the time they slept and when she was n't sleeping Diana frequently visited the kitchens , the domain of ‘ Swampie ’ Marsh and fellow chefs . |
| 14 | For much of the time she was delirious , but there were lucid intervals , during which she was slightly comforted to understand that the nightmares that had tormented her were products of the disease and not of reality . |
| 15 | It needed to be , too , for much of the time she was pushing her way through undergrowth and around patches of thicket too dense for them to penetrate . |
| 16 | It was built in 1490 and for much of the time it was owned by the Darrel family . |
| 17 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 18 | And for much of the time it follows the Minchmoor Road , an ancient drove road which was also used by Scottish monarchs staying at Traquair House . |
| 19 | The period is 313 days , and the range from 5.4 to 10.5 , so that for much of the time it is out of binocular range . |
| 20 | For much of the period he discusses , it was far from easy to prove whether a couple was legally married at all . |
| 21 | During much of the debate we have had no representation from the Liberals or the Scottish Nationalists . |
| 22 | During much of the book you do not feel anything for the androids , but as you see their struggle for survival and begin to sense that they have gained the feelings that humans are losing , you realise the irony of the book . |
| 23 | Lear was doubtless unhappy during much of the time he worked for Gould ; he was also constantly unwell , often in desperate financial straits , and had been finding lithography an increasing strain on his eyesight and his nerves . |
| 24 | Oh yes , we everybody knew of that of the slate we were making , you know cos erm we were making about two thousand duchess a day . |
| 25 | John asked , remembering the appalling wetness of much of the land they hat splashed across that day . |
| 26 | As a result , the blood is deprived of much of the oxygen it needs to feed the body tissues , so we may end up feeling listless or suffer vagueness of thought . |
| 27 | Personal boredom with the formal way in which he was working , coupled with an awareness of the lack of relevance to the pupils of much of the mathematics he was teaching , led Rick to begin making changes to his classroom practice . |
| 28 | In addition to fully appreciating the significance and context of much of the material they wanted to use , pupils also intended to create new material themselves by acting roles as if they were there at the time . |
| 29 | In the words of one of the crew it is ‘ the ultimate one-design race . ’ |
| 30 | This simple fact deprives you of most of the information you would normally have about the other person . |