Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] of the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is very nearly all I think of the hope in it , the glory to come … if I live to see it . ’ |
| 2 | " The mother whose man I live of the house in suggested it , " said Edward . |
| 3 | No I had , I had of the chemist in Chapel because it came |
| 4 | This is not how I conceive of the situation in postclassical criminology . |
| 5 | Her insistence seemed absurd in view of her own failed marriage , but I had always been too nervous to point this out , to ask what she made of the break in connection between the symbolism of the dress and the unassailability of the marriage vow . |
| 6 | What do you think of the Council in Harlow ? |
| 7 | She thought of the woman in the launderette and shivered . |
| 8 | Colin and Pam Lawrence , parents of air hostess Nicola Lawrence who died of the disease in February , aged 25 , endorsed Mr Donnelly 's appeal . |
| 9 | This terminology dates back to St Paul who spoke of the church in Corinth , in Thessalonika , etc . |
| 10 | She spoke of the pain in her hands , neighbours who had passed on , and twice asked Mungo what school he was going to now . |
| 11 | One thinks of the change in the course Of the Hwang-ho River in China , which in less than eighty years moved its mouth some 250 miles from way to the south of Shantung on the Yellow Sea up nearly to Tientsin on the Gulf of Pohai . |
| 12 | One thinks of the way in which the industry set up a factory , with considerable Government money , to produce Skoal Bandits , and then blatantly promoted that carcinogenic product , which promotes mouth cancers , to children in nearby schools . |
| 13 | Given that this is so , what sense can we make of the way in which God , as opposed to John or Jane Smith , is personal ? |
| 14 | We spoke of the war in Eritrea , and the danger some of our friends are in . |
| 15 | It 's inserted into the poem in two ways : first the devils are identified with the pagan gods — they are introduced , indeed , with a great fanfare in the first book and given all sorts of classical erm and oriental names , and Milton explains to us that of course it was the devils themselves who managed to disperse this tradition that that 's who they really were ; and second , and though less central and less impressive in its poetic results , is perhaps the second device which is more interesting when we think of the poem in terms of Milton 's personal involvement . |
| 16 | They consist of the improvement in one lineage 's ( say prey animals ' ) equipment to survive , as a direct consequence of improvement in another ( say predators ' ) lineage 's evolving equipment . |
| 17 | He thought of the widow in her ramshackle hut at the end of the village and the gratitude in her eyes when he gave her a purse of coins . |
| 18 | He thought of the woman in the garden , heard her voice , listened to the words of her poem , felt the powerful stirring of his loins . |
| 19 | Following a journey to Persia in 1889–90 of which he published an account in 1892 , he tells of the constitution in the 1840s of a Turco-Persian commission pursuant to the Second Treaty of Erzerum concluded at the prompting of Britain and Russia : |
| 20 | Hardly anyone knew of the ceremony in advance : no banns were posted and no friends ( except , perhaps , John Hayward ) were informed . |
| 21 | Dr Varmus said he learned of the prize in an early morning call to his home from a radio reporter . |
| 22 | Will the right hon. Gentleman remind the House how much warning time he had of the conflict in the Gulf , how much warning he expects to have from the IRA before any outrage and how much warning he expects of the consequences of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the activities of extremists like Mr. Le Pen in France ? |
| 23 | Thiercelin had spent what remained of the night in the chateau at Sokolnitz , a requisitioned country house which offered fair prospects of a successful defence , and reasonable comfort in the meantime . |
| 24 | Human economic activity forces us to think of the environment in the same terms . ’ |