Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferdinando surprised her by having someone write a letter for him towards the end of March which made it plain that Mrs Browning had fared no better in Rome than in Siena and was very ill . |
| 2 | I made a lot of mistakes as any young person does , but I never made the mistake of thinking I knew it all as far as the Africans were concerned . " |
| 3 | It is from some of these 400 that the letters come protesting innocence — and if they often ramble and are poorly expressed , that is indicative of a lack of education which made them vulnerable to manipulation in the first place . |
| 4 | Under the quiet but firm leadership of Kenneth McDougall , ably seconded by Mark Frame , the BDDA was approaching the stage of development which made it fit for its task in the post-war world . |
| 5 | Frankie often joined his classmates in taunting them because of their poor homes or absent fathers , yet in his heart of hearts he envied them all . |
| 6 | ‘ I was only aiming for the British record , ’ Wooderson declared in a state of shock which caused him sleepless nights for a week . |
| 7 | The Finn touched the ball inside to Jess who controlled it and turned in a blur of movement which took him clear of his cover and a sweetly struck shot hummed past Andy Rhodes . |
| 8 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 9 | Their work was hampered when a large boulder blocking their way was moved , resulting in a further fall of shale which took them several hours to remove . |
| 10 | In so doing , he secured a foothold on the northern borders of the kingdom of France which brought him important benefits , as well as vexing problems . |
| 11 | In describing her daily life every woman interviewed outlined the kind of standards she thought it important to stick to in housework , and the type of routine she used to achieve this end . |
| 12 | He lacked spark from the start and never hit the kind of form which won him this title in the same ring last October . |
| 13 | Among the small minority of combatants who found it difficult to adjust to civilian life after the war , who were anti-semitic , militantly anti-communist and concerned about the continued decline of Britain , individuals were almost as likely to be anti-fascist as supporters of fascism . |
| 14 | There were a number of factors which made it ill-advised , and indeed impossible , to ignore completely the presence of political organizations in the Nationalist rearguard . |
| 15 | Out of curiosity he pushed it open . |
| 16 | If a person is rightly charged with larceny , but the jury in reliance on section 44(3) mistakenly convict him of obtaining by false pretences , the Court of Criminal Appeal can not substitute a verdict of guilty of larceny under section 5(2) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1907 ; for the verdict implies an acquittal of larceny , so that it can not ‘ [ appear ] to the Court of Criminal Appeal that the jury must have been satisfied of facts which proved him guilty of [ larceny ] ’ ( Rex v. Fisher ( 1921 ) 16 Cr.App.R. 53 ) . |