Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing I played two rounds of golf yesterday … ’ |
| 2 | They invited me to punk parties as noisy as tractor factories , where I swigged flat cans of beer , already shaken with a twist of cigarette butt . |
| 3 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 4 | Certain medical conditions , such as being HIV positive , or which need particular kinds of medication , may make breastfeeding inadvisable . |
| 5 | She was educated at Handsworth Ladies College and at Newnham College , Cambridge , where she took both parts of the natural sciences tripos ( 1887 , 1888 ) , obtaining first-class honours . |
| 6 | She was rushed to Northampton General Hospital where she underwent several hours of surgery , including a tracheotomy operation . |
| 7 | I do n't know of any other event where you get that kind of pressure and you just ca n't simulate that . |
| 8 | In a place like mine anybody who knows my patch you , you know old or you know certain parts of or you know certain parts of . |
| 9 | In a place like mine anybody who knows my patch you , you know old or you know certain parts of or you know certain parts of . |
| 10 | Or you know sludgy sort of colour like this |
| 11 | I think you 're honest it 's the people respect you more if you say I 'm sorry , I do n't know the answer , I 'll find out for you and then you say tell you what John , can you write that up on that issues form pad or you know another bit of flipchart paper , we 'll come back to that . |
| 12 | You get , or you get two cars of equal speed , along straight |
| 13 | Shaikhs collected money from members of their lineages to support those who had no other support , or who had heavy expenses of certain kinds ( educational or medical , but not business expenses ) which they could not meet ; but these were in no sense an attempt to redistribute resources . |
| 14 | For the credit marketer who is looking either to reach higher volumes of target customers throughout the country , or who needs higher volumes of names for a rolled-out marketing campaign , this restriction forms and important limitation . |
| 15 | He took me to lunch at a discreetly ill-lit restaurant and then to an hotel on the Ile St Louis , where we passed two hours of the afternoon gratifying his fantasies . |
| 16 | Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’ |
| 17 | Botswana Two BGS staff remained on secondment to the Botswana Geological Survey Department , where they fill established posts of principal regional geologist and hydrogeologist . |
| 18 | They are almost unmineralised except where they contain tectonic slices of the underlying Lewisian basement . |
| 19 | I kept banging my way to and from the can , where they had incredible pictures of nude chicks front magazines all over the wall . |
| 20 | Known as Cadians , they founded a new homeland in the backwoods of south Louisiana , where they discovered bountiful supplies of game — rabbit , squirrel , pigeon and deer , and helpful native Indians who taught them how to make the most of local wild produce . |
| 21 | In When We Went to the Zoo by Jan Ormerod ( Walker Books , £7.99 ) , a dad decides to take his small son and daughter to the zoo , where they see all sorts of wonderful animals . |
| 22 | The court heard that customs men later went to a Surrey hotel where they recorded several messages of people trying to contact Melms . |
| 23 | Think of rock concerts where they have those banks of giant speakers grouped together on the stage . |
| 24 | In a very influential paper , Daniel Maltz and Ruth Borker have placed particular emphasis on the fact that girls and boys play in single sex peer groups where they learn different styles of speech . |
| 25 | Should you want to do some withy and teasel research for yourself , you might visit their willow and wetland centre in Stoke St Gregory where they grow 50 acres of willow and harvest it every winter , when the plants are dormant and the rods measure 8 feet . |
| 26 | For while she returned her kingdom to full doctrinal and liturgical conformity with Rome , many English Protestant exiles fled their homeland and took up residence in Strasbourg , Zurich , Emden , Frankfurt , and Geneva , where they gained first-hand experience of the Zwinglian and Calvinist forms of Protestantism , and became fully immersed in the Calvinist theology of grace and salvation . |
| 27 | Single people on non-sailing holidays , or anyone requiring single occupancy of a double room , must pay a supplement . |
| 28 | The evening meal had been re-scheduled for 8.30 p.m. ; and with time to spare , after throwing his own large hold-all on to the counterpane of his single bed , Ashenden joined a few of the other tourists in the Residents ' Lounge , where he took some sheets of the hotel 's own note-paper , and began to write a letter . |
| 29 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 30 | Yvonete , who works in the nearby cigarette factory , takes us to her husband 's workshop , where he makes wooden effigies of the Christ of Rio for sale to tourists . |