Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in fact my experience of working with the banks and institutions for the recapitalisation and reconstruction of John Brown which led me to think that the City is much maligned over its attitudes to industry and the accusation of short-termism is not justified . |
| 2 | anyway , and I sort of said to the waitress , why what was it ? |
| 3 | I sort of looked on the on the board and saw a thirteen two pony for sale been shown last year so it 's probably a sort of a working man 's pony , you know , that sort of class . |
| 4 | That 'll be alright so cos he slid his my brief case and er I got all the way home , no problem at all , I 'd got newspaper under the back , so it did n't scratch the back when I come to come down Mill Road this lorry 's go , I mean I got the tail gate up and er I sort of looked in the mirror , I thought oh my goodness my tail gate , I could hear it so and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down and scratched along the dash board ! |
| 5 | I 've got on the tape here a song which is by Manny Fryer he used to sing in Steel Ice Band er now I know that that 's sort of very old hat , I 'm sorry , but I sort of live in the past and er this er I I believe also that these days so that er you know I can sort of justify that but this is a song that er she has sung which er reminds us that each of us has the potential to commit the crime I 'll try not to play it fast forward , let's see how we go . |
| 6 | Well I said I sort of trundle down the stairs and have me breakfast |
| 7 | At first we just made conversation , but after a couple of drinks Reid looked at me thoughtfully , twiddling his half-empty glass , and said , ‘ There 's no reason not to tell you this , Kit , but since we 've got to work together , I 'd rather explain my mode of living before the old cats on the island — the European gossips — start telling you stories . |
| 8 | ‘ My style of playing over the top of the neck was just an accident . |
| 9 | The situation basically is that I am confident I can come to accommodation with Norfolk from my way of thinking as the neighbouring Highway Authority , those the people we 've got to er to make certain are on site , I 'm sure , I 'm confident enough to do that . |
| 10 | Could my investiture of Mr Broadhurst with such sinister and wide-ranging powers have been my way of dealing with the chronic lack of a proper role model ? |
| 11 | It could easily be nothing more than my way of coping with the consequences of a senseless accident . |
| 12 | Max Klein 's wife , Dora , however , had recently begun to tolerate this prohibition with definite , if unexpressed , ill-grace , finding that it greatly restricted her opportunity of parading before the community Max 's newly acquired Ford motor-car . |
| 13 | Well as I say , I had , I do n't , I have n't really had any involvement really with talking to people about their experience of living in the flats until people knew that they were going to be moved out eventually . |
| 14 | This equivalence is emphasized further by the women 's own tendency to compare their reactions to housework with their experience of working outside the home . |
| 15 | Anne Harper , until recently a senior executive with BP , heightened the feeling that there is a real and all-too-close-to-home problem when she compared her experience of working with the group 's local company boards in Scandinavia , where partly due to the existence of worker representatives the woman board member is not an unusual phenomenon , and in the machismo-oriented ‘ southern Mediterranean countries of Portugal , Spain and the Republic of Ireland ’ where it is — and promptly included her experiences in Scotland with the latter . |
| 16 | Just as war began the Communist Party had published a short pamphlet How to Win the War , which outlined the Party 's continued opposition to fascism and its intention of participating in the war effort . |
| 17 | After the congress the BSP confirmed its intention of appealing to the constitutional court against a recently enacted law on the confiscation of party property , one of the first measures brought in by the country 's first wholly non-communist government formed in November [ see pp. 38583-84 ] . |
| 18 | Progress on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project , expected to become an important additional source of income and employment , was not expected to be affected by the political crisis in February 1990 ; the military government confirmed its intention of proceeding with the scheme under which hydroelectricity was to be generated in Lesotho and water was to be diverted from a catchment area in Lesotho to South Africa 's industrial heartland in the Transvaal [ see pp. 31304 ; 34789 ; 35815 ] . |
| 19 | This does not provide a big enough buffer stock to allow each group to vary its speed of working through the day to a significant enough degree . |
| 20 | The mutineers , driven by weather to abandon their plan of escaping round the Horn into the Pacific , are intercepted and taken back to England , where Jesse and those of his comrades who have survived are tried and hanged . |
| 21 | And yet she must seek new outlets for her work ; she greatly wanted to expand her range of shoemaking outside the humdrum jobs of soling and heeling heavy working boots . |
| 22 | Alice returned to the second coat and her work of balancing on the trestles , and thought for the first time : I 'm silly . |
| 23 | Because of the way that the Moon moves in its orbit around the Earth , its place of rising on the horizon varies a little , each night moving a tiny amount further north until its position of rising seems to come to a halt ( a standstill ) before moving back southwards again . |
| 24 | Far too many amateurs place the ball forward in their stance when pitching , therefore increasing their chance of digging into the ground before the back of the ball . |
| 25 | None of this necessarily involved fighting between French and British , but it came at a time when the British Company was revising its policy of relying on the Moghul Emperor and on the successes of Englishmen outside India to protect its position . |
| 26 | ADD argue that their method of dealing with the relationship between fiscal and monetary policy is simpler than that used by Barro ( 1977a ) , in which the equivalent fiscal variable is government expenditure relative to its normal level . |
| 27 | He takes as his criteria for class membership : firstly , the position of individuals in the process of production and their mode of sharing in the distribution of the product ; secondly , control over the labour power of others and thirdly , mode of remuneration . |
| 28 | Gone is their habit of rounding off the edges — The Tambourines now make them as jagged as possible ; aggressive , articulate and brain blastingly loud . |
| 29 | Gone is their habit of rounding off the edges — The Tambourines now make them as jagged as possible ; aggressive , articulate and brain blastingly loud . |
| 30 | They are not always malicious towards mankind , being known as ‘ kobold ’ or ‘ demons of the mines ’ in Germany , and ‘ coblyns ’ or KNOCKERS in Wales and south-western England , because of their habit of tapping on the shaft wall to identify the whereabouts of a rich lode of ore . |