Example sentences of "of [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was warned in advance , but , as a former soldier , felt ‘ God has chosen me to go on this forlorn hope of preaching his Blessed Gospel in his country , and I should discourage those who are coming after me if I should be afraid and fly . ’ |
| 2 | It also turns out that the ratio of proportions is rather cumbersome to handle when dealing with many variables at once , and no-one has yet proposed a way of decomposing it into component effects as they have with d s and with measures based on odds . |
| 3 | Often Morton had told himself savagely that there would soon be a point at which he would lose interest in the prospect of salvaging them . |
| 4 | The means of salvaging something of the disposition is to recognize that so far as the daughter has benefited under her father 's will she may be obliged by a trust . |
| 5 | Last night both men were clinging to the vain hope of salvaging their jobs and refused to comment before today 's hearing . |
| 6 | A year ago , Everton 's only hope of salvaging anything from a miserable season evaporated when they lost at Stamford Bridge in an FA Cup tie . |
| 7 | Sort of truck you carry troops in . ’ |
| 8 | But having in a somewhat cursory fashion quoted the authorities , he at once proceeded to the more congenial task of elaborating his argument , bringing forward considerations of individual psychology , the effect of various judgements on the penitent , and the necessity for prudence in the actions of confessors . |
| 9 | But if the electorate is indeed of a mind that it is ‘ time for a change ’ , then it should consider carefully just what sort of change it would be letting itself in for . |
| 10 | I never tried to copy those guitar players , but I tried to steal it and kind of change it a little bit . ’ |
| 11 | This discussion has actually sort of change my perspective on it erm and so it 's it 's not that there 's an element of doubt in my mind I 'm just I if I 'm gon na go into something it 's got to be a hundred percent . |
| 12 | I sort of rub my face with my hands and have a proper look , but I ca n't find none . |
| 13 | So , what I do is , I just sort of rub my teeth with my fingers . |
| 14 | Yeah , of course you ca n't sort of cuddle him like that cos he 's too heavy , I rock him you know for a , a couple of minutes , not that long , he 's taken his braces off as well still do , do n't ya ? |
| 15 | And I sha n't be making the mistake of attributing it to any charms of mine , either . |
| 16 | Schaffer ( 1977 ) from his studies on children also claims that even young children are capable of attaching themselves and loving more than one set of carers at the same time . |
| 17 | She listened to his advice and bought instead a Welsh pony with the vague idea of attaching it to a trap and doing the shopping in it . |
| 18 | I have always been desirous of devoting what little capability and energy I may possess to the country which I love most dearly . ’ |
| 19 | In May 200 struck on the Orlov-Vitebsk line on this account , declaring that instead of devoting its energy to extracting gold from the churches , the government should find ways of paying them better . |
| 20 | The idea of devoting one 's career to helping the other fellow on his way , rejoicing , may be ennobling but it is sometimes more evident in theory than in practice . |
| 21 | Very few men took clerical orders in the hope of devoting themselves to pastoral work at parish or diocesan level . |
| 22 | It also sort of encourages them to farm as much land as they can to presumably rent more out . |
| 23 | As the previous chapter shows , the development officers were rarely involved at all with those clients if they were in the action samples ; since in no real sense could they be said to have had the opportunity of availing themselves of the action project , they are omitted ( in both action and control samples ) from most of the following analysis . |
| 24 | You will agree , I think , that parliamentary candidates need a way of cheering themselves up . |
| 25 | Wally was awarded the job for his bravery in receiving extensive brain surgery after years of concussing himself on the crossbar . |
| 26 | at the end of June so that 's when that was taken , you ought to of asked him when you saw him today |
| 27 | you ought to of asked him when he sold it to ai n't ya ? |
| 28 | I never , you know , sort of asked anything after that , I just see what he tells me sort of thing . |
| 29 | It occurred to Karelius to wonder whether the fräulein made a practice of confiding her problems to everyone as readily as in this instance . |
| 30 | However , among the effects this breathing is father of is that tremendous one of sharpening one 's vision into the heal . |