Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent research has shown that people who list the consequences of dieting , positive and negative , and remind themselves of them regularly during the day , do twice as well on their diets as those people who just have routine dietary advice . |
| 2 | How cosy this could have been , the rain lashing down outside providing a curtain from the world and the two of them here with no occupation except to pleasure each other . |
| 3 | Beth had thought her son and Cissie were still in the garden , so was pleasantly surprised to see the two of them already in the kitchen ; Richard eagerly awaiting his tea , and Cissie fussing with a place setting . |
| 4 | She washed a Cos lettuce , leaf by leaf , then patted each of them carefully with a tea towel . |
| 5 | A great cultural movement like the twelfth-century Renaissance can not be explained in simple terms : the influences and the inspiration which created it flowed through many channels , some of them deep beneath the ground . |
| 6 | He showed me photographs of them together in a boat there , on a beach , in a restaurant . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 10 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 11 | Looking to our right we recognised the Cottages with the road in front of them close to the ditch ; also our Professor 's stable , coach-house and dog kennels , with the back entrance from the road to his garden … we were soon in King 's Road [ Pancras Way ] which we found to be well studded with trees on each side … to our left the Country residence of Counsellor Agar [ builder of Agar 's Town ] … we turned to the right and first took notice of the front of our Professor 's house with its large garden protected from the pathway and road by a brick wall . |
| 12 | What is clear is that this was all one society , in which the wives — like Mrs Lowndes herself — wrote books or maintained salons , while their husbands were functionaries , some of them much in the public eye as ministers of the Crown , others — like Frederic Lowndes — no less influential and esteemed for operating under wraps , as grey eminences . |
| 13 | ‘ Get his boots off and get him below or I 'll sail the lot of you straight into the reef . ’ |
| 14 | I saw that photograph of you both in the paper . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't show yet , at any rate , ’ she said , ‘ but I ca n't have the likes of you here with a brat . |
| 16 | In the locker room the steel grilles are pasted with letters that say , Thanks for your kindness for making a tough time much easier to bear , and , If it was n't for all of you there at the hospital I do n't know how we would have survived . |
| 17 | I only hope that you will never have to read this letter — not because my life is worth anything to me but because it breaks my heart to think of you alone in a world which I have found to be so harsh and unforgiving . |
| 18 | Best wishes for the year — I hope to meet many of you personally in the course of it . |
| 19 | We feel we are very fortunate to have known Shanti 's mother , for we were able to tell her what her mother looked like , and speak of her lovingly as a person , not as the ‘ brown paper parcel ’ referred to before . |
| 20 | They spring into the next lift , catch sight of him again in the lobby , and trail him for miles , on underground trains and buses , out into sparse unfinished housing estates among the vague terrains on the outskirts of the city , elaborating increasingly fantastic and boring explanations of his destination and business , until , mercifully , they lose him , and can return to the dirty bookshops and Chinese restaurants . |
| 21 | The gentleman thought of him only as a person , no more than one step up from a peasant . |
| 22 | She sat very still , eyes closed , as he examined the wound , willing herself to remain immune to his nearness , to think of him only as a doctor . |
| 23 | The young man helped her carry her gear out to the car , stowing most of it away in the boot . |
| 24 | And then , then , I will restore him what I denied him , and graciously accept the proffer of it again as a tribute to me , so that for ever afterwards he shall know who is master between us two friends . |
| 25 | You 'll think of it again in a minute . |
| 26 | She took a white lace handkerchief out of her bag and dabbed a corner of it carefully at the corner of her eyes before the make-up ran . |
| 27 | It belonged to an extremely important erm civic family , Thomas and John Smith , who are the two important ones during the civil war , Thomas was mayor just before the War , John Smith was a member of parliament in the Long Parliament , and erm there 's a slightly complicated story to the house , Thomas moved out of it just before the war and built another one way up the street , but John stayed there , and another important landowner in Marston , Umpton Croak , owned the other half of it . |
| 28 | He had spent most of it indoors in the research laboratories where three offices were being cleared out , stripped and redecorated . |
| 29 | ‘ I just caught sight of it there on the kitchen windowsill , hiding amongst the plants . |
| 30 | Henry thought of it more as a shrine . |