Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typical of artists to read nothing except what they happen upon and then to pontificate about life and art and the way the world is going . |
| 2 | You can tell that Arthur Parker , head of IBM UK 's Enterprise Systems division , is getting heartily sick of journalists asking him about downsizing : ‘ If I only read the papers and did n't know my subject I would believe that the vast majority of large corporations are desperate to move applications off the mainframe — and that is rubbish ’ he says . |
| 3 | I said at the beginning , when I talked about the woman at the pool , that ‘ the essence of her charm , independent of time revealed itself for a second in that gesture and dazzled me . ’ |
| 4 | Under his bed he had a complete medicine chest , full of stuff given him by a veterinary friend in Palm Beach . |
| 5 | And then the bucket too which has been kept full of water to keep it from expanding and leaking which otherwise it would do . |
| 6 | She was vaguely aware of Curtis covering her with a travelling rug , then she was fast asleep , lulled by the steady drone of the engine and the comfortable warmth of the car 's interior . |
| 7 | She was heart-stoppingly aware of Niall watching her from the doorway , a glimmer of something she could n't fathom in his blue eyes . |
| 8 | They have not got many choices open to them , and they are also very aware of people judging them as mothers because of their age , and feel that they constantly have to prove themselves . |
| 9 | Half convinced , she shrugged philosophically and turned to leave the apartment 's square entrance hall in which they were standing , aware of Luke following her into the luxuriously appointed lounge , a long elegant room which ended in sliding glass doors opening on to a balcony with a view she had spent part of the afternoon enjoying , pretty green parkland dotted with ornamental ponds linked by a winding , deeply cut stream that was spanned by the occasional arched stone bridge . |