Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [art] [adj] of " in BNC.
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1 | If it 's bad , being a little rebel , I think oh well , I 'll make the best of it . |
2 | At the weekend er I thought , I 'll make the most of the er the weather , because Saturday we 'd got er showers forecast from about lunchtime . |
3 | I 'll mention a few of my favourites . |
4 | ‘ I 'll show the two of you round the area , then we can stop off for lunch wherever takes our fancy . ’ |
5 | If you 'll allow me , I 'll have a few of his titles sent round to your hotel . |
6 | ‘ Because if you do n't keep your lover away from her I 'll have the two of you off this island with twice the speed of those rockets out there . |
7 | ‘ I 'll kill every one of the Six . |
8 | Years later I could say the same of my old MGB . |
9 | I only wish I could say the same of some other companies ! |
10 | ‘ I would I could say the same of you . ’ |
11 | Erm well perhaps you , you wou would you er let me perhaps er well not let me but perhaps I could ring a few of erm those people just to have a chat with them and perhaps put , you know , talk about the er planning your future exercise with them as well , could you , would you give me some numbers please ? |
12 | I 'd give the two of you a year of happiness at most . |
13 | ‘ But , if I know him , you wo n't remain so charmingly ingenuous for long , so I 'd make the most of it if I were you . ’ |
14 | Thought I 'd put a few of them up . |
15 | ‘ I thought I would leave a few of you on the G'bai side of the mountains with the pack beasts . |
16 | Nigel used to say , ‘ If you can read , you can cook , ’ and I would say the same of gardening . |
17 | I would say the same of a case in which a child of any age consented to donate an organ : such a case is not , of course , covered by section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 on any view of the matter . |
18 | By writing for a national radio network , I would enjoy the best of both worlds . |
19 | One Christmas when Macmillan was in his eighties his grand-son Alexander ( Maurice 's son and the present Lord Stockton ) , who looked after the old boy in many ways , asked me if I would read the eighth of nine lessons at a carol service in a London church in aid of dependants of the Publishers Association . |
20 | For example , by the end of this week I shall expect every one of you to know the two-times table by heart . |
21 | In this section I shall explore the strongest of the range of holist positions — the view that there is no place at all for individualist explanations of the social world . |
22 | But if you comply with my proposals I will leave you ; if not I will make the most of this opportunity . |
23 | I will make the most of being injured , and go down and sit by the pool for a while and chat to Carlos . ’ |
24 | I can hear the two of them on the narrow stair outside , Summerchild placing his feet with ostentatious care on each step , bending his head rather further than is strictly necessary under the low ceiling , while Serafin demonstrates his effortless familiarity with such picturesque difficulties . |
25 | The recent collapse of the Communist Party , which used to win a third of the votes , has taken away the vital ingredient of fear that held the system together . |
26 | Nobody would get the better of him . |
27 | The US has talked of a genuine North American free trade zone incorporating the US , Canada and Mexico which would have the best of all worlds with high-technology skills and a cheap labour force south of the Rio Grande . |
28 | The Spanish Government 's Telecommunications Office , having twice rejected all competitive bids for a national radio-paging licence , has finally granted this honour to Sistelcom Telemensaje , which will offer the first of three national radio-paging services that were envisaged under the National Telecommunications Plan . |
29 | Which will make the thirtieth of September a meeting at Portland Road . |
30 | Indeed , senior management commitment is essential so that companies can devise strategies which will make the most of opportunities which the EMC Directive presents . |