Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same attitude is recognizable in the fragments of the histories of Posidonius , the pupil of Panaetius who , amidst all his philosophical work , decided to become the continuator of Polybius for the period after 146 B.C. It is uncertain whether Posidonius concluded his histories with the events of Sulla 's dictatorship or whether he extended them to include the Eastern wars of Pompey . |
| 2 | They were in a minority but were expected between them to meet the sexual needs of the men . |
| 3 | It can link together disparate and formally opposed groups , leading them to discover the morbid pleasures of seeing themselves as ‘ one nation ’ . |
| 4 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 5 | I did try and help her about how to run a war because it 's such a long time since anybody 's run a war — I mean the technical methods of running a war — which she did very well . |
| 6 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 7 | I mean the new areas of course for us er and I still count the medical practices as a new area although it 's been for four years |
| 8 | From evidence available this week , by which I mean the remarkable feats of sharp reflex and well-practised agility Peter Shilton performed against Poland in a crucial World Cup qualifying tie in Chorzow , England ought not to embark for Italy next summer without first packing trench tools and barbed wire , while giving some serious attention to the laying of mines in their penalty area . |
| 9 | I had occasionally seen his photograph as I skimmed the financial sections of the newspapers . |
| 10 | ‘ I found the first steps of the next pitch were very difficult , and the rock rather pushed one out . |
| 11 | Then I went to Chartres , where I found the unequal spires of the Cathedral strangely homely and appealing after the stately symmetry of Notre Dame . |
| 12 | I was interviewed recently and I mentioned the long-term effects of being asked about drugs in interviews . |
| 13 | This enabled someone to establish the numerical co-ordinates of the movement of the cutting tool over the entire sequence of operations and to transfer this to code on punched tape which was then fed into the machine . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought I recognised the royal tones of the battleaxe queen . |
| 15 | In the hippy dementia of the dog room I catch the screaming antics of The Moonflowers aspiring to be weird simply for weird 's sake . |
| 16 | I welcome the many offers of support and the money available to various agencies in Scotland , as well as the fact that it is hoped to establish an enterprise zone in Lanarkshire . |
| 17 | I noted the small bunches of flowers laid in the Place de la Concorde in memory of Resistance fighters , and thought how especially fragile and touching they seemed in the immensity of that noble square . |
| 18 | I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov . |
| 19 | ‘ I am more and more Christian as I walk the unchristian ways of Christendom ’ , he wrote , confessing himself ‘ a conscientious objector with a very seared conscience ’ . |
| 20 | Ah yes I thought that would er take you by surprise I noticed the sharp intakes of breath there erm but even now we 're thinking in terms of expansion . |
| 21 | ‘ It is necessary for business purposes that I speak the major languages of Europe . |
| 22 | Then I glimpse the shifting colours of the television and its faint reflection on two small inert alien faces . |
| 23 | To their families and close friends in Tandragee and Lurgan I extend the sincere sympathies of all those involved in our sport . |
| 24 | I climbed the two flights of stairs and walked down the rickety balcony which led to Ellen 's small end room . |
| 25 | And when I recall the shattering consequences of what happened one night a month or so later , I think of Hamlet , saying ‘ When sorrows come , they come not single spies , But in battalions . ’ |
| 26 | Long have I combed the vilest quarters of this town on fruitless search for thee . |
| 27 | Before I describe the detailed provisions of the Bill , I would like to remind the House of the background to the scheme and why , sadly , the very many benefits which would arise from the construction of the barrage have , so far , been denied to the people of Cardiff . |
| 28 | It was only natural that my thoughts should be on the life and work of my friend Robert W. Service as I walked the untidy streets of Whitehorse four decades after the roaring pandemonium of the gold rush days . |
| 29 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's how I spent the best years of my life , ’ she often said to her son . |