Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 ‘ After I 've boiled them for stock of course . ’
2 " He never comes to London — but we 've heard plenty of talk of him — Matthew this and Matthew that , but you know what Miss Jenny is , what I call an enthusiast . "
3 You 've caught us at kind of a low point . ’
4 See the thing is , what they 've said to me , because I 've been away now for nearly two years erm I 'd have to go back and do all the training again , which is a bit of a pain but its not too bad because I 've done it before sort of thing , she said to me oh yeah when you go I , I might come along and see if I like it , and we can do the training together she said , I manage to put her off that idea , manage to talk her out of that .
5 He 's not behind the wheel … we 've got him in front of the camera .
6 I 've got it on top of bank though .
7 in the course of your budget debate and er true to form I 've brought it in front of you this morning .
8 I 've , I 've piled one on top of the other and I 've just ta , like the last two
9 ‘ Right from the beginning my fellow directors have regarded me as part of the team and have been tremendously supportive . ’
10 They have seen them as evidence of the need for different kinds and structures of planning , rather than as evidence of the impossibility or undesirability of planning as such .
11 Since this addresses many of the issues contained in Threshold 21 , we have enclosed it as part of our response .
12 Plenty of guys in this racket have found themselves in front of a jury for a lot less than picking a dame up off the floor .
13 In Berlin , for example , I heard of a woman addressed as Fräulein ( ‘ Miss ’ , literally ‘ little woman ’ and widely regarded as a put-down , so that many German women have abandoned it in favour of Frau ) by a male bus driver , who said ‘ Danke , Fräulein' when she tendered her fare .
14 Modern conditions have involved us in rivalry of armaments which is now a conscious struggle to achieve by expenditure and science , by diplomacy and alliances , a balance of power which always eludes us , and because it is always variable and unstable condemns us to a bloodless battle , a dry warfare of steel and gold .
15 ‘ 1 , Yahweh , have called you to serve the cause of right ; I have taken you by the hand and formed you ; I have appointed you as covenant of the people and light of the nations .
16 A well-established tradition holds owners to be morally entitled to their property where they have obtained it by way of an uncoerced transfer from someone who received it in a similar manner , subject to the property having been originally taken into private ownership by a legitimate process of acquisition .
17 When government authority has been challenged citizens have expressed themselves in favor of maintaining that authority .
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