Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [vb past] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holmes ' warm words of thanks made me feel much happier , and I saw that he was right . |
| 2 | And the words of love-songs made you cry ? |
| 3 | Well why w would why would you say that , what what s what s was your sort of membership , where from what groups of people did you draw your members from ? |
| 4 | The first few hundred hours of thought made me regret my bet ; but the second couple of thousand convinced me that I 'd played it right . |
| 5 | And what other kinds of meat did you sell ? |
| 6 | Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ . |
| 7 | The horrors of war made them want to prevent conflict . |
| 8 | Only during the occasional bursts of sunshine did they begin to sing with birds and bugs . |
| 9 | The recurring bouts of illness made him feel he was continually living on the brink of eternity . |
| 10 | Stagnant pools of filth made us cover our mouths and noses whilst we kept bobbing our heads to avoid the painted signs which hung outside every house . |