Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mess on the ground in front of me came together as a man , and Daine — still dazed from his transformations , still pinned like a vampire butterfly — stared up in hatred . |
| 2 | Most of them looked forward to an administrative career in the service of a lord , whether pope , king , bishop or earl . |
| 3 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 4 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 5 | There should be no more nonsense about one or other of them moving out for a matter of days or weeks only for the unsatisfactory relationship to resume just as unsatisfactorily as before . |
| 6 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 7 | ‘ I do enjoy my job serving the customers because of the way some of them ask sheepishly for a jokey item , ’ says Jenny . |
| 8 | When a group of them walked up to a bar , they would reach into their clothes , and the last one to catch a louse had to buy . |
| 9 | The women lived with it — some of them came here for a week and then went back to it . |
| 10 | When she allowed him to ‘ catch ’ her , the two of them rolled about on a pile of hessian rope , screeching and laughing , until David reminded Cissie that she was ‘ a young lady of certain years ’ and that Richard should remember how he had only been allowed to come to the docks on the understanding that he be on his ‘ best behaviour ’ . |
| 11 | The world is full of stray cats , many of them searching hopefully for a new home . |
| 12 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 13 | We may know these things on an intellectual level , but there 's nothing like having the emotional truth of them brought home on a gut level-none of us are free from some degree of the self-blame that makes so many women feel responsible for their own rape . |
| 14 | She went straight into the kitchen , and automatically made them both a cup of coffee , a mutual family ritual when one of them went out to a meeting . |
| 15 | And the two of them working together over a long time , they would work |
| 16 | " You can ask one or two of them to stay behind for a drink , if you like , " Laura said , " if there 's anyone possible . " |
| 17 | Pictures were flashed around the world of the two of them cavorting recklessly on a beach . |
| 18 | Her eyes , threatening to turn from amber to gold as the two of them sat there over a casual dinner on her balcony , briefly dared him to develop the theme , just before she dropped them . |
| 19 | That 's fixed but some some of them started off with a a fo a double sided piece of paper which is thrown away with the rest of the garbage that people keep in their houses . |
| 20 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 21 | I stay a few feet behind , watching the three of them shuffle along at a ten-month-old 's pace . |
| 22 | Er there 's none of them left now except an old M Mrs in who is over a hundred . |
| 23 | ‘ One of them opened up with a chopper . |
| 24 | It would be a waste of time for both of you to go on to an interview . |
| 25 | ‘ It is so good of you to look in on an old invalid when you must be so very busy at the office — what with the Dean 's compost heap yielding such unwholesome remains . ’ |
| 26 | Without moving his eyes away from her dark head he oscillated between the image of the pure lady accepting the spoon , or at least the rose , and the idea of her calling out in a thrashing orgasm of female pleasure as he spurted and spurted in ecstatic triumph on top of her . |
| 27 | Solicitors acting for the Princess of Wales have demanded that secret photographs of her working out in a gym should be handed over and that she should be given details of how much money was made from them . |
| 28 | He squashed the image of her curled up on a chair , feet tucked under her neat little bottom , waiting for him , her eyes drowsy and heavy-lidded — |
| 29 | She 's obviously desperate to hold onto her No. 1 ranking and absenteeism begs the question of her shying away from a confrontation with Graf for fear of losing her ranking points lead . |
| 30 | She dreamed of him hurtling along in an open roadster , smiling at a blonde head and two scarlet-nailed hands spinning the wheel , reckless on the deep-banked lanes near the summer school . |