Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josie tried to reach for some killer of an argument , a real zinger that she could pull out of the air and use to disarm all opposition . |
| 2 | His mind was racing now , beads of sweat standing out on his forehead , as he desperately tried to think of some way of alerting the pump attendant to his predicament without endangering them both . |
| 3 | It seemed to come from another world of reference , an older , ordinary world , of platitude and cliché , of pattern and familiar family ties , a world that she had thought they had never entered , for many good reasons never entered : and now here was Charles himself , invoking its terms , as though it had been there always , as though they had always inhabited its domain . |
| 4 | It has been said that at the court of Poitiers " the gilded youth of Poitou and Aquitaine breathed an air that seemed to belong to some tale of chivalry " . |
| 5 | Huge numbers of immigrants , mostly from across the Atlantic , came to live in this country of over 7.7 million square kilometres . |
| 6 | The flow pattern , and allowed to run for many years of simulated time , generating a sequence of day-to-day ‘ weather ’ , |
| 7 | Their use increased considerably from the 1880s when the familiar skeletal iron-framed hay barn with a curved corrugated-iron roof began to appear in all parts of the country . |
| 8 | the more I worked on it the more it began to evolve into another kind of idea and the more removed it became from my initial study which had so much freedom and energy , so I stopped . |
| 9 | Locally , people began to talk about some form of recognition for the aircraft and how the town could help its tourist industry into the bargain . |
| 10 | They drank the rage or the lust or the caprice of mortals whose souls returned to dissolve in this sea of energy . |
| 11 | So this was a new strange quantum number , and I think really what happened as new quantum numbers became necessary to describe the new types of particles , people just began to think of more sort of strange names like charm and beauty and erm things like this , but they have no real connection with what we normally understand by charm and beauty , they are just quantum numbers . |
| 12 | Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’ |
| 13 | At the age of 16 I started to work in all kinds of crop harvesting . |
| 14 | ( No. 2 ) [ 1970 ] Ch. 576 , 592 , Megarry J. referred to ‘ the unfettered discretion of the judge brought to bear upon any exercise of this extraordinary jurisdiction ’ under section 268 of the Companies Act 1948 which replaced section 115 of the Act of 1862 . |
| 15 | How does the child leant to do without this type of punisher ? |
| 16 | It was normal , moreover , as in earlier generations , for a diplomat going to one of the more out-of-the-way capitals , if he expected to stay for any length of time , to equip himself with a mass of essentials which might be difficult or impossible to obtain at his destination . |
| 17 | The techniques which emerged to deal with this kind of problem owed much to the pioneering work of R.A. Fisher , and others , and involved elaborations of the classic form of experimental design . |
| 18 | It has been observed that Christian fortresses in Syria on numerous occasions failed to act as any sort of check on the movement of Muslim armies . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , yes , but that did n't mean you had to jump to all sorts of other conclusions . ’ |
| 20 | I had to guard against any display of triumph . |
| 21 | When Churchill became Prime Minister Keynes was invited into the Treasury , where he continued to press for some sort of deferred pay . |
| 22 | For women who wished to join in this mood of excited expansionist exploration there was an alternative . |
| 23 | This was quite clearly not an agreement between the employer and the employee but had the effect of being an indirect restraint on any employee who wanted to work for another member of the trade association within the two year period . |
| 24 | Almost 400 ministers refused to conform to this imposition of Episcopacy and as a result they were debarred from their kirks , deprived of their livelihoods , and disqualified from acting as ministers . |
| 25 | The one thing he always refused to consider at any time of financial uncertainty was selling any of his personal shareholding in Virgin . |
| 26 | But apparently people insisted that one stand up to do one 's piece , and I — successfully acclimatised to the horizontal by this time — refused to pander to this sort of nit-picking , and so passed my turn on to Cousin Josh with as much good grace as I could muster . |