Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remained in York 's employment until the Restoration , first in the French and then in the Spanish armies , and became his groom of the Stole and one of his closest friends . |
| 2 | Play another sound effect — perhaps a door opening , keys jangling , a car moving off , a bomb exploding , or a dog barking — and it becomes difficult not to link the two sounds together and make them part of the same story . |
| 3 | He was very untypical of the modern world who dislike the modern world and make their dislike of the modern world perfectly evident of other people |
| 4 | I have some time to spare and would like to sit down and read my copy of the biography of Berlioz . |
| 5 | Instead of being taken for granted as a set of explanatory standards which will bolster and enhance our understanding of the social world , individualism may appear to offer only a narrow and distorting lens through which to inspect it . |
| 6 | On the face of it , this is a month when you should be concentrating on your future and accepting your share of the limelight . |
| 7 | TIMES have changed considerably since a youthful Austin Rawlinson attended his first swimming gala , well before World War 1 , and realised his love of the water had helped him develop an outstanding talent . |
| 8 | It 's becoming a favourite pastime , combining the thrill of the chase with the joy of the bargain which is why we regularly try and bring you news of the latest openings . |
| 9 | For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style . |
| 10 | Yet it was through the derided Teenybop that the next pop generation came , as young women quickly moved from varieties of Osmond to something a bit meatier — men who instead of masking the femininity of the adored object , flaunted it and made it part of the package . |
| 11 | ‘ The person shown on television having an exchange of words with David Campese has come forward and given his account of the incident . |
| 12 | Nothing is known about his employment from 1815 to 1830 , when Messrs C. , H. , and G. Enderby proposed an Antarctic sealing voyage , and appointed him master of the brig Tula ( 150 tons ) , which was not a good sea boat , with the cutter Lively and twenty-nine men and boys in all . |
| 13 | The modern world is one which confuses and plunders our sense of the past ; one where even the concept of ‘ heritage ’ itself is hi-jacked and distorted . |
| 14 | The Danish blocking of Maastricht has at least made it possible for Britain to argue for ‘ no Single Currency ’ and to suspend her membership of the ERM , an option formally closed by the Treaty . |
| 15 | To enable pupils to identify with situations , beliefs and experiences of people in the past and to increase their awareness of the influences which have shaped attitudes in the past . |
| 16 | However , if on hearing or reading these sentences people computed their structures , which conform to standard rules of English syntax , and used their knowledge of the semantics of English to interpret these structures , they would not be misled by them . |
| 17 | Forty-six years on , John Edelnand , now living in Luton , revisited Gwrych Castle and the neighbouring village of Abergele and found his memories of the local people still clear : |
| 18 | So he said to himself : ‘ This is the place where I was simply terrified ! ’ and remembering his fear of the previous day , he promptly shied again although he had not been hurt the day before . |
| 19 | I woke up screaming with terror and distress , and told my mother of the dream . |
| 20 | When Lars Ake Wilkstrom , Chairman of the Swedish Deaf Association , addressed the BDA Congress of 1986 at Rothesay , Scotland , and told his audience of the benefits to the Swedish deaf community from the official recognition of their own language they were astonished and excited . |
| 21 | Mrs Thatcher is very much alive to new ideas , ‘ ideas that support and implement her view of the world ’ , as somebody inside her ideas market put it . |
| 22 | Observers noted that some changes , such as that which enabled President Fidel Castro to declare a state of emergency , and appoint himself leader of the National Defence Council in such an event , merely institutionalized already existing situations . |
| 23 | Managing Corporate Affairs and Public Relations — a five-day residential course , for senior executives wishing to update and improve their understanding of the strategic role of Public Relations , and for senior PR Managers wishing to maximise their effectiveness within their organisations . |
| 24 | Managing Corporate Affairs and Public Relations — a five-day programme for senior executives wishing to update and improve their understanding of the strategic role of public relations . |
| 25 | You should brief your adviser fully and seek his assessment of the pros and cons of your intended course before implementing it . |
| 26 | The young men holding office were still tactful , and even complicity helped people to avoid saying the wrong things ; but they spoke with the authority of government , and informed their elders of the facts of cases and the truths of matters . |
| 27 | He wants me in a purple gown to match the set and shows me drawings of the dancers ' outfits . |
| 28 | If we take sentences without contexts and devise interpretations for them on the basis of the mutual compatibility or otherwise of the type-meaning of the words in them , we are putting ourselves under constraints which have nothing to do with syntax ; by thus restricting and deforming our appreciations of the structure we prevent ourselves seeing what the effect of the syntax , qua syntax , is . |
| 29 | Only by steadily improving efficiency would Britain win and keep its share of the world 's markets . |
| 30 | ‘ This decision totally vindicates me and clears my name of the slur that I have lied about myself . ’ |