Example sentences of "habit of [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt that the ‘ on — off ’ nature of their relationship — when he was here today but not tomorrow , or even the next day — was all part of Nicky 's habit of taking her for granted . |
| 2 | Since her earliest golfing days , they had been in the habit of congratulating her on her latest success . |
| 3 | Having formed the habit of buying lots of fresh fruit and vegetables , fish , white meat and low fat alternatives to dairy products , we need to cook interesting and attractively presented dishes . |
| 4 | Since citizenship has become a fashionable and acceptable word , it is easy to slip into the habit of using it in preference to ‘ individual rights ’ or ‘ human rights ’ , but it is important to bear in mind the desirability of keeping the private sphere of the life of the individual separate from his role as citizen , an essentially political role and status . |
| 5 | He is intrinsically proud : this reveals itself through his habit of defining himself by telling you his achievements . |
| 6 | But if romanticism suits the Devil because it has a habit of slipping us into unreality-away from the real battle — it has an even more pernicious aspect . |
| 7 | It may seem obvious to you that coffee cups belong in the top cupboard , but if people get into the habit of leaving them in the sink and you allow them to do that ( even when it irritates you ) it will be difficult to get them to change . |
| 8 | At a certain point in his investigations , at the harbour in Trieste , the narrator imagines the pleasure felt by the midshipman who at that moment is explaining the lay-out and workings of his ship to two visitors , giving all the parts of the ship and all the instruments their proper names , which ‘ have no synonyms ’ ( Del Giudice 1983 : 44 ) ; and muses further on his own dreams of navigation , envying the midshipman ‘ the way in which he concentrates on the angle and the height , and his habit of considering himself in relation to something ’ , above all ‘ the exactitude of the chart ’ ( 45 ) . |
| 9 | As mail boy , he had picked up the habit of addressing everyone by their Christian name , whoever they were . |
| 10 | Yeah but you do n't wan na get in the habit of holding something in your hand like . |
| 11 | The first teacher I had in the infants was a Miss , she had a bad habit of rapping you across the knuckles with a ruler , and there was a pupil teacher Miss , funny thing about that is she , she , she came up to , Mr came up as headmaster and Miss came as a teacher , she was a pupil teacher it was n't necessary to go to college and get degrees in the , she , she used to be a pupil teacher in the infant school when I was at school , and Miss was actually at the sunshine school when my daughter was going to school . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , he had a habit of propping himself on that stool in front of a picture and it must have gone over with him . |
| 13 | What goes on in the US today has a habit of repeating itself in the UK tomorrow . |
| 14 | Buckmaster 's habit of distancing himself from the seamier side of the company worried him . |
| 15 | It should soon develop a habit of relieving itself in this way when it finds an appropriate spot at the start of its walk . |
| 16 | Abuse has a habit of smacking you in the nose like that , for all to see . |
| 17 | The cluster I found particularly er important and so like yourself the Aldershot method and structured thought patterns er the cluster was important er because as you say when people have got nerves they need to get some basic guidelines for overcoming the problem er we all tend to put our hands in our pockets and stand rooted to the spot and all the rest of it but there are ways of overcoming it , it 's just a matter of practice erm the Aldershot method is er obviously a very effective method erm if you get into the habit of doing it in threes er erm you see every day you use the news at ten news at ten analogy obviously |
| 18 | There were a lot more long balls down the middle of the field than usual , simply because Beeny was putting them there whereas Lukic had got into the habit of putting them in the stand . |
| 19 | Throughout my life my tummy has been , as it were , my Achilles heel ; and around this same time the condition of my colon , which for the latter part of my life has had a habit of tying itself in knots , became particularly acute . |
| 20 | He did have a habit of railroading her into things , but she knew she would be crazy to refuse . |
| 21 | As long as you 're not holding needles , it does n't matter which position these levers are in , though I try to make a habit of having them in the knit position . |