Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Well , mother explained to me what was expected of me in the marriage bed and it sounded so terrifying . |
| 2 | I was looking forward to the chance to meet ‘ our ’ health visitor and find out what would be expected of me in the months leading up to the birth . |
| 3 | I could do what was expected of me by the crowd , or I could do what he trusted me to do . |
| 4 | In this way , the organisation does its best to ensure that the employee is likely to be able to meet the requirements expected of him in the job abroad . |
| 5 | As described earlier , Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) have argued that they now have good evidence that the prior existence of a close supportive relationship is protective against depression if that person provides the support expected of them at the time of a crisis . |
| 6 | I asked my friends who have had au pairs what they 'd expected of them in the kitchen . |
| 7 | Both managers said they would assess managerial competence by a person 's ability to achieve the goals expected of them by the organisation . |
| 8 | Justices who exercise this delicate jurisdiction are under a statutory duty to carry out the inquiry expected of them by the Children Act 1989 . |
| 9 | Try to relate the interim end-result of everything you do , decide or say to the overall profitable contribution expected of you at the year 's end . |
| 10 | Similarly , unless it is reasonable to do so in the circumstances , a firm must not , in any written communication or agreement , seek to exclude or restrict : ( 1 ) Any other duty to act with skill , care and diligence which is owed to a private customer in connection with the provision to him of investment services in the course of regulated business ; or ( 2 ) Any liability owed to a private customer in connection with regulated business for failure to exercise the degree of skill , care and diligence that may reasonably be expected of it in the provision of investment services in the course of that business . |
| 11 | As a consequence we are still constrained to conform to standards of behaviour expected of us by the group . |
| 12 | I knew she was registered at Essex , I knew she was basically dishonest , a boozer , a feminist and — from the brief glimpse I 'd caught of her in the Mimosa Club — no featherweight . |
| 13 | Might not Jesus himself have been rather different from the picture given of him in the gospels and the subsequent teaching of the church ? |
| 14 | He had already heard of us on the river grapevine , about our journey upriver with Muhammad and Milhaez and Romany . |
| 15 | I 've only heard of it at the fashion college . |
| 16 | Well I , I had n't heard of it on the telly , I |
| 17 | If a collector had acquired the ancient cross , Wartski 's experts might have heard of it through the dealers ' grapevine . |
| 18 | In fact , he could n't remember ever having heard of it until the day Shiva came in and told them what he had found . |
| 19 | She also became a celebrated beauty through the depictions made of her by the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron [ q.v. ] and the painters Brown , D. G. Rossetti , Burne-Jones , and Val Prinsep [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | Though ‘ the diagram I have in view ’ includes particular details , ‘ there is not the least mention made of them in the proof of the proposition . ’ |
| 21 | One area of special interest is helping companies to predict what environmental demands will be made of them in the future . |
| 22 | The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description . |
| 23 | In spite of the weaknesses in his attempted synthesis , the same can be said of him in the context of the theology of the last century and a half as of Sir Christopher Wren on his tomb in St Paul 's Cathedral , Si monumentum requiris , circumspice — ‘ If you would see his memorial , look around you . ’ |
| 24 | The producer Jerome Hellman had seen Dustin in Eh ? and had thought of him for the part way back then . |
| 25 | For the best midfielder in the country I 'd be looking closer to 5–6 mil especially if he went to Rangers or abroad — but personally I would n't sell him , so going on past experience that means Wilko will get rid of him before the end of the season . |
| 26 | She wondered , not for the first time , how it was that her body could be desperate for liquid at one end while bursting to get rid of it at the other . |
| 27 | Well it 's not that , i it 's so they they like to get rid of it for the summer and i if there 's a sign of a bit of frost out they all come , shoving it onto the road and rotting everybody 's cars . |
| 28 | You know , if you ca n't sell it at home , you know , you get rid of it on the world market . |
| 29 | Played in English on a steeply-rigged stage in a shabby hall , this revival packs a pulverising punch , the most gripping account I have experienced of it over the years . |
| 30 | Donald is reputed to have fled to the ( Western ) Isles , and nothing is known of him during the reigns of Macbeth and Malcolm III . |