Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun prp] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Helliwell family not only supplied Ethel of the Iron Will but her twin sister Alice , and elder sisters Elsie and Mabel . |
| 2 | Dorothy had already told Isobel of the conversation that afternoon , so she was prepared ; but he found it difficult to get round to the real object of the visit . |
| 3 | This vista painfully reminded Ruth of the lakeside restaurants at the Seville Expo … |
| 4 | It was taken instead in Gateshead thus depriving Darlington of the chance to have its name on a picture which would adorn walls as far apart as Headingley pavilion and West Indian embassies in Washington . |
| 5 | The earliest steps in this direction were taken by David Watson , the first permanently appointed Dean of the Course . |
| 6 | Defeat also robbed Edberg of the chance of regaining his world No 1 ranking — which he would have done if he had won this final major tournament of the year . |
| 7 | From her sensible shoes to her practical haircut , her appearance proclaims her membership of that generation of British women who survived the privations of wartime and went on to spend their lives in ungrumbling toil creating the now tarnished Jerusalem of the Welfare State . |
| 8 | Mahmoud , unlike Owen , had been trained for the job he was doing and sometimes reminded Owen of the fact . |
| 9 | She felt unclean and unworthy , rather as she hoped that her mother , in her dark moments , must feel about Mr Stacey — and she never told Nora of the incident . |