Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [v-ing] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will take you half a mile for a packet of Marlboros — for a carton , they 'll fight each other for the privilege of taking you all the way ( eighteen miles ) out to Sheremtyevo airport . |
| 2 | It 's only the beginning for me but I thank God for the privilege of serving him this way . |
| 3 | That year saw England 's famous World Cup victory , and James Cossins recalled ‘ the difficulty of getting us all out of the wardrobe at the Duke of York 's — the only room with a TV set — in time for curtain up on the second house on the Saturday night that England won , and the fact that the cast were almost too hoarse to get to the end of the play . |
| 4 | Within the past hour has announced that a review is being launched into the future of three pits in Yorkshire with the intention of closing them all down . |
| 5 | I had taken Miss Senga into Hyde Park with the intention of showing her some of the winter birds , and the park is so beautiful at this time of the year , what with the snow piled up . " |
| 6 | She tried to calculate the effect of telling them all . |
| 7 | We are now 7 degrees within the tropics and if the trade winds in which we got off Madeira continue we may expect to cross the equator in a week or ten days , about which time our Captn. informs us that we may expect to fall in with some homeward bound vessels which will enable me as well as the rest of our passengers to forward letters to our friends … bad weather had the effect of making us all good sailors and now we are enjoying fine weather and a fair wind . |
| 8 | Their political passivity about these communal services ca n't be understood without taking into account the benefit of keeping it all in the family — for men it secured their surveillance over the time and labour of women . |
| 9 | In the case of upshot , it is the illocutionary or perlocutionary force , what the speaker is trying to do with his or her words , which is made explicit , and this may be prefaced by utterances like : ‘ Are you trying to annoy me ? ’ or ‘ What 's the point of telling me this ? ’ or ‘ I was only trying to be friendly ’ . |
| 10 | If Blackbeard was carrying only that amount , what was the point of offering it all ? |
| 11 | He was not sure how she would take it , leaving the house before they had intended and moving up north ; also , in the last few years he had got into the habit of sparing her any unnecessary decisions or arguments . |
| 12 | The effort of holding it all in made her feel as though she was about to explode . |
| 13 | Every such case demands serious consideration , and the burden of considering them all must be substantial . |
| 14 | other words they were selling glass , and they were selling metal back to whatever and manufacturers to re-use but in terms of collecting and the cost of collecting it all and and |
| 15 | Therefore much of the rock , or ore , is needed and the directors of British Steel do not wish to pay the cost of carrying it any great distance . |
| 16 | Although companies are not expected to go to unreasonable lengths to accommodate someone who is not able to carry out his job to the full extent , an employer who disregards altogether the possibility of finding you some other position and is unwilling to consider any other form of compromise may be vulnerable to an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 17 | But it was not prepared to take the pain of doing it all again and now the krone is floating free in Europe 's outer space just like the pound . |
| 18 | I was very pleased , naturally , but the task of answering them all , which I was determined to do , was daunting , to say the least . |
| 19 | Whoa , old girl , ’ soothed Ted , when he saw that even with all his weight pulling on the halter , there was no hope of saving her that way . |
| 20 | I had every intention of doing it this morning . |
| 21 | Tim had no intention of telling her that . |
| 22 | It appeared that Josh Cohen had no intention of giving them any trouble — just as Hardy had predicted . |
| 23 | The new album is unbelievable ; they 're so adventurous and they have a habit of pulling it all off , whichever area they go into . ’ |
| 24 | Hills are still offering the magnificent odds of 1–7 on , because , according to their spokesperson , Man U have a habit of buggering it all up ( Heh , heh , heh — do n't we know ) |
| 25 | Och well he 's got all his basic stuff there now , it 's only a matter of sorting it all out . |
| 26 | Following defeats like the final last season the Transvaal hierarchy have a reputation of blaming it all on a few players . |
| 27 | You may yet find a way of getting them both . |
| 28 | I bet you they 'll find a way of spending it all . |
| 29 | He had no way of carrying them all off , but two of the volumes were dated to cover the period of the insulin project as Diane had described it . |