Example sentences of "of [pron] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAMELA : [ aside ] Now I begin to know too well why all his hard trials of me and my black apprehensions would not let me hate him . |
| 2 | Always at the Bidding Prayers mention was made of me and my Christian community at home and prayers were offered for them . |
| 3 | ‘ I have thought of nothing but you all day . |
| 4 | We laughed a lot , made fun of them and their new outfits , and then , when nothing happened , we went home . |
| 5 | By the time we 're on the other side of this , I know ( I 'm experienced ) , by the time I 've become really fond of them and their pretty ways , they will start to recede , irreversibly , fading from me , with the lightest of kisses , the briefest squeeze of the hand , the brush of a stockinged calf beneath the table , a smile . |
| 6 | Since these have to do with complex processes of political control and relationships between industrial relations actors and the state , an adequate understanding of them and their historical context requires more than a superficial acquaintance with the countries concerned . |
| 7 | He also said that he was convinced that South African agents and others concerned with intelligence gathering were responsible for more than a dozen burglaries at the houses and offices of himself and his professional advisers . |
| 8 | Liam Hudson suggests that ‘ it may be that a single system of values embraces the individual 's perceptions of academic institutions ; his perception of himself and his demonstrable behaviour ’ , and goes on to say that , |
| 9 | In Marshall ( Thomas ) ( Exporters ) Ltd v Guinle [ 1978 ] 3 WLR 116 whilst managing director of the plaintiffs and without their knowledge or consent , the defendant placed orders for the benefit of himself and his own company with the plaintiffs ' suppliers . |
| 10 | Then , in 1989 , he caused a storm over Wild Orchid , refusing to promote the film when Playboy published pictures of himself and his on-screen/off-screen lover Carre Otis in explicit moments from the film . |
| 11 | There has always been a self-proclaimed tendency to look behind the scenes , to see where power really lies , to explore and explode the myths surrounding a society 's image of itself and its political system . |
| 12 | He was very fond of her but it strained imagination to see how she could fit into a policeman 's life . |
| 13 | Firstly , an elder may display verbal consciousness for most of her or his day-to-day conduct , even if sometimes haltingly or with verbal expression impaired by physical conditions such as aphasia . |
| 14 | With brother Terry and his wife Karen , played by Jack Hedley and Sheila Hancock , they finally rebel against their fiendish mother-a wonderful performance by Mona Washbourne — who has assembled them to commemorate the anniversary of her and her late husband 's wedding . |
| 15 | She would have been surprised to learn that observant Dr Neil was thinking the same of her and her abundant energy . |
| 16 | Then she felt the coverlet being pulled off the bed and João was on top of her and his sweet breath was in her face and his mouth over her mouth ; he was forcing her legs apart until she thought she would split ; he was trying to lift them right up over his shoulders , and at the same time trying to enter where she was impossibly small , cursing at his lack of success and finally grunting and gasping , until she felt a little damp fountain on her belly and he rolled off the bed and pattered quickly from the room . |
| 17 | Only the waiter arriving with their main course stopped her telling Nathan Bryce exactly what she thought of him and his female acquaintances . |
| 18 | As a fellow Australian I first became aware of him and his unique style of teaching and painting through The Artist of March , April and May 1968 . |
| 19 | But the funniest expression I ever heard was in New Zealand where I was staying with friends of mine and their young daughter . |
| 20 | We might think of this full information value of output , , as the value of output which government policy is trying to achieve even though there is not full information ; or , more loosely , one might think of it or its aggregate equivalent as the natural level of output . |
| 21 | Le Tout Washington adored him ; no other place was so lavish as the Iranian embassy on Massachusetts Avenue , with its mirror-domed ceilings , its drapes and its silks , all dominated by two full-length portraits of His and Her Imperial Majesties and brought alive by the bounding , capacious personality of Zahedi , the ultimate host . |
| 22 | First we may consider the phrase : ( 25 ) acrobatic performance In the light of the discussion above we may remark that this can be understood in either of two ways : first , as covering any performance which is so described because it is linked with the idea of an acrobat in the execution of his or her professional duties ; this would include expertise in juggling , tightrope walking , standing on one 's hands , and so on , even if they are performed by an amateur lacking any natural talent for the task ; second , ( 25 ) may be used to designate any performance which is acrobatic in itself , even if not part of the normal repertoire of acrobats , for instance , grabbing hold of a branch growing out from a cliff just after falling from the top . |
| 23 | Therefore , if the investor refuses the offer to buy a further 250 shares , the price of his or her existing shares will fall by 11p each . |
| 24 | It is also suggested that the taxability of removal expenses where a foreign national comes to the UK but does not dispose of his or her existing house should not be taxable . |
| 25 | The practical politician will not be tied by a commitment to rigid policy objectives , but will search for a high level of consensus around a policy generally favourable to the viewpoint of his or her political party . |
| 26 | Because , while being regressed , the patient is well aware of his or her present-day persona in addition to the previous one , Myra found it very distressing to think that she had been so happy to go along with all Hugh 's demands . |
| 27 | As part of his or her normal role in the county , each DCSL visits every school in the division at least once a term , and the project gives an added dimension to these visits . |
| 28 | The negotiation and offer would be limited on the one hand by the school 's ability/willingness to use different initiatives and on the other by the head of service 's management of his or her total team resource and his or her balance of support to all the schools in the team 's catchment area . |
| 29 | Conversely , the sufferer from addictive disease can not stop and denies the causal connection even up to his or her own death while blaming environmental pollution , an influenza epidemic , stress or any other external factor as the cause of his or her increasing disability . |
| 30 | It follows that an individual 's patterns of thought are conditioned by the nature of his or her first language . |