Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my third day of freedom I managed to steal some coins and sent a note to my master in Ipswich . |
| 2 | It was the first bit of luck she had had all afternoon . |
| 3 | Er and of course they had to use these crocodiles er down the coast er where the Germans were holding out er at and Dunkirk you see . |
| 4 | Of course he had wondered this himself in the past . |
| 5 | I think Row was about the last row in and of course you 'd got all the fields , Gardens and what have you . |
| 6 | She had left Chetwynd Magna at ten o'clock , having seen both Gay and Felicity off by the London train ; and now it was nearly three , and her feet were cold ; she had eaten the sandwiches Matron had cut for her , and of course she had read all her papers hours and hours ago . |
| 7 | And of course I had to get another lens , a piece of glass about the same size , in order to grind it , because you grind the glass with another piece of glass with a grit in between . |
| 8 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 9 | On the other hand , Colonel Haldane did not succeed in winning the vote of the burgh of Inverkeithing itself , a failure which may perhaps be linked to the lasting hostility of the burgesses occasioned by his own quick temper two years earlier , for in 1752 he had given Provost John Cunningham a black eye when he had encountered the chief magistrate on the steps of the tolbooth , an error of judgement which served to undo much of the Haldane party 's work in that town , and indeed ran the colonel some risk of being mobbed . |
| 10 | The winter of his second year of university he began to do some special research on the Gulf for a project he 'd been assigned . |
| 11 | It must have bewildered the matron , who watched practically every mouthful I ate , that by the end of term I had lost another two pounds . |
| 12 | I 'm quite pleased with how I got on at work today with the amount of work I 'd done that |
| 13 | There was something of importance he wished to say that would affect them all . |
| 14 | FIGURE 5 After the initial laying in of colour I began to introduce more of a feeling of form to the objects while retaining the strong sense of pattern |
| 15 | If , for example , we were to create a drawing of a No Smoking sign the cigarette would appear on the black sheet while the red circle and bar would appear on both the magenta and yellow sheets because the shade of red we chose requires both . |
| 16 | With a glimmer of self-preservation I began to reason that to be a martyr to an unwanted marriage was one thing , whereas to look like a fool in the eyes of all the world was another . |
| 17 | It was a course of discussion they had followed several times before , each time with greater perplexity as their bright , affectionate little boy metamorphosed into a silent , awkward adolescent . |
| 18 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 19 | In point of fact I had enjoyed some experience in radio network production before arriving at CBR , Vancouver . |