Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a cognac he gloomily informs us of the Japanese surrender . |
| 2 | An influence strong enough to rob her of the natural exuberant self-confidence that had always been a central , unthinking part of her personality . |
| 3 | ‘ Mortmain' , or dead hand , refers to the fact that the church was an undying institution so that any land which it held in fee ( or freehold ) was never vacated by the death of its owner or came into the possession of a minor or an heiress ; thus it would never revert ( or escheat ) to the chief lord for the duration of the vacancy or minority , so depriving him of the valuable rights of wardship and marriage appertaining to feudal tenure . |
| 4 | Taylor was upset with Platt before the Turkey game for not informing him of the serious nature of the injury but the player surprised him by playing at Wembley with his usual effectiveness . |
| 5 | One thing is certain : if Abraham has not told her of the divine command , then even her worst fears will not allow her to guess what is afoot . |
| 6 | There is no small irony in this , as applications to purchase foreign technology in the first place will only be approved if the relevant Soviet machine building ministry can not produce something of the appropriate standard and quantity in the time required . |
| 7 | In either case , a court which revokes the order following a breach will be empowered to sentence the offender as if it had just convicted him of the original offence . |
| 8 | this afternoon , but we wo n't all be in that workshop , sorry , just to have , perhaps Samantha , if you 'd just say what of the new communications strategy , I think members ourselves , but in a sense it would be very useful to know what the others , perhaps we could take some of it back with us . |
| 9 | At first the freemen of both town and country had an organization and a type of property which still retained something of the communal as well as something of the private , but in the town a radical transformation was taking place . |
| 10 | Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown . |
| 11 | NUMBER ones from around the world : Bruce Springsteen , who with that manly stubble and grubby string vest has always had something of the macho Mediterranean stud about him , is currently top of the pops in Spain and Italy with Human Touch . |
| 12 | Could all teams also inform us of the proposed date and venue of their tie so that we can send a photographer when possible . |
| 13 | The work has voices in the first two movements , but is essentially for solo organ , dazzlingly played by Gaston Litaize , who clearly enjoys himself of the magnificent beast which lives in the church of St. Francois-Xavier in Paris . |
| 14 | To achieve a fine white printing quality , the paper is oxygen bleached , thereby having none of the detrimental effects on the environment which are inherent in the conventional chlorine bleaching process . |
| 15 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
| 16 | As we now know something of the appalling story of his hounding by cultural officialdom , the raucous irony of the middle works and the bitter blackness of the last become entirely comprehensible . |
| 17 | The most noticeable of them is a throbbingly emotional ballad — as if from some oriental Tom Jones — which intermittently wells out to remind you of the popular nature of the love dramas you are witnessing . |
| 18 | This took the form of a recommendation to a university willing to take on an inspector , who often had none of the usual qualifications . |
| 19 | But the reader now knows something of the general setting of Libyan politics ; of the people involved and their problems , and it is possible to approach the topic of ideas and principles in the aftermath of the revolution . |
| 20 | The mix-up in dates has also occurred in other parts of the country and Neil Dickinson , secretary of the English Schools AAA , wrote to county secretaries a month ago reminding them of the recommended date . |
| 21 | For days afterwards , she could n't rid herself of the guilty feeling that , somehow , she had brought the attack upon herself . |
| 22 | It was a box , shaking itself madly to free itself of the smashed timber around it . |
| 23 | Rangers will today discover which of the other teams — AC Milan , Marseille , Porto , Bruges , PSV Eindhoven , CSKA Moscow and Gothenburg — will join them in their four-team section of the mini-league stage , with the winners of each group facing each other in the final . |
| 24 | ‘ We do n't tell them of the major side effects for fear of losing them ’ Field worker , Kenya |
| 25 | It immediately reminded her of the unforgettable night at Ali 's Alley when she had met Sanborn , her jazz idol , who had then discreetly found out from her friends which of his songs was her favourite and made an impromptu appearance on stage to play it especially for her . |
| 26 | ‘ Its note is a loud ringing and very peculiar sound , somewhat resembling the worlds Clink , clink , several times repeated , and strongly reminded me of the distant sound of the stroke on a blacksmith 's anvil , and hence the term ‘ arguta ’ appeared to me to be an appropriate specific appellation for this new species . ’ |
| 27 | I said to mum she need n't , mum did n't get none of the bleeding details . |
| 28 | Times hard , thought of all days , thought the old lady still would n't let me of the old erm |
| 29 | Sir : Jonathan Glancey ( Architecture ; ‘ Invisible buildings that reflect nothing ’ , 4 October ) does well to remind us of the spreading disease of the mirrored glass building . |
| 30 | The portrait of the leader of the Sicilian slaves , Eunus , irresistibly reminds us of the Posidonian fragment on Athenion . |