Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The force of it lifted Golden Girl 's stern and for a moment Trent feared that she would bury her bows in the sea and pitch-pole . |
| 2 | It was an indication of It facing both ways , torn between a youth culture stumbling around politics and the embers of 1967 . |
| 3 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 4 | Judy was throwing a ball to Mandy Maddison , who was learning to catch a ball with the left hand as part of her Keep Fit Challenge . |
| 5 | But a small part of her cried that Ace seemed to have lost all sense of kindness and decency as far as she was concerned . |
| 6 | Part of it includes two bypasses north of Oxford . |
| 7 | Behind Hurd 's selection of a specific group of Arab states is the assumption that the Arab world as a whole can be ignored , since only part of it has any role to play in security in future . |
| 8 | Yeah I mean that might certainly give you some , you know , kind of you know regular attenders to er to , |
| 9 | Today we have over one million business accounts , from sole traders to the largest corporations , with the great majority of them receiving financial help from us in one form or another — from a simple overdraft to extremely complex arrangements . |
| 10 | Many scientists are active in such groups in Northern Ireland and a significant proportion of them bring special expertise to their organisations . |
| 11 | This is an absolute necessity and to work in defiance of it means total failure . |
| 12 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ There was no question of her getting preferential treatment because she is the Secretary of State 's mother . |
| 14 | It 's just a question of us getting three points , that 's all that matters . ’ |
| 15 | So , if you would be so kind as to get into a position where you can see what I 'm doing without being too close it means that if we do splash any acid by accident er the likelihood of it causing any problems to anyone are minimal . |
| 16 | sort of you know defensive thing . |
| 17 | in cos it 's always handy to give to her because she 's she 's looking for you know , I mean , sort of you know different things all the time and she 's got various |
| 18 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 19 | Since the perestroika process began , the Soviet economy has followed a steady course downwards , and there seems no prospect at the moment of it reversing that process . |
| 20 | In part , this was a consequence of her appointing some ministers who were sceptical of her economic strategy . |
| 21 | Whilst they were appearing in Up With the Lark at the Adelphi Theatre , they coped admirably with their filming schedule but were furious when Sickert produced a picture of them called High Steppers . |
| 22 | The young woman seemed to know what she was talking about , and Shelley suddenly felt sorry for her , in spite of her flashing Spanish beauty . |
| 23 | While the deal goes down the rest of them wait next door . |
| 24 | The rest of me knew this sort of thing worked . |
| 25 | But the rest of me ignored those details and clutched hungrily at the reassurance that she had n't really played a willing part in my humiliation . |
| 26 | None of the rest of us had that kind of head . ’ |
| 27 | The same unfortunate landlord returned a few days later as we were playing forfeits , and made no mention of the fact that one person was in a bra and panties with a colander on his head , another had wellingtons on filled to the brim with curdled milk and the rest of us had false moustaches drawn on with an indelible black magic marker . |
| 28 | The rest of us use this time to make or mend kit , and to read up on possible areas to visit come the Spring . |
| 29 | Minch would have to shut him up and calm down Slorne herself until eventually she would quieten herself down and let the rest of us get some peace and quiet . ’ |
| 30 | The rest of us travel those kinds of journeys vicariously , slumped in a winter armchair reading accounts of Himalayan kingdoms reached only by months of walking , or of chucking in the job , mortgaging the house and sailing to the spice islands with oriental pirates . |