Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but , but the thing is if , if the traffic 's gon na be heavy , if it thinks we 're gon na get stuck in traffic , if you 've got a G T I you 're that type of driver you 've got that type of power , you can sort of pass and save a bit of time |
| 2 | On my third day of freedom I managed to steal some coins and sent a note to my master in Ipswich . |
| 3 | It was the first bit of luck she had had all afternoon . |
| 4 | In a couple of minutes I had lost any chance of kinship with Sue by making one of the most basic mistakes . |
| 5 | Of course one needs to exercise some common sense about the number of objectives written for any one piece of teaching , but if teaching sessions are seen as part of a series for a given student then objectives can be written for the whole series . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And then of course they 've got this soldering iron type thing called the diathermy cautery device that seals up the blood vessels and this is being stabbed into her . |
| 8 | There 's also some murals on the walls , various artists did murals and of course they 've got this grant from for six thousand pound for a exhibition . |
| 9 | Now of course we 've got some experience in these things and we can put together some sort of picture of what that trade unionism for a new world might look like . |
| 10 | And of course we 've got this I have a little dog and she loves to roll in this . |
| 11 | Of course he had wondered this himself in the past . |
| 12 | I think Row was about the last row in and of course you 'd got all the fields , Gardens and what have you . |
| 13 | Have you , technically , presumably erm , Gooch could appeal , you can be timed out if you 're not on the , on the field by that time , but then of course you 've got another erm eighty yards or so to walk to up to the far end . |
| 14 | So you let go gently then you do the same on the other side , and then of course you 've got this piece free . |
| 15 | And Madam , I 'd also ask you to say that to him to pay compensation for the minor injuries she 's suf she 's suffered and of course you have to consider that 's a point in a case involving assault , would be to add insult to injury , and would not assist the parties in coming to terms with their relationship and hopefully attempting a reconciliation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Of course I hate cleaning all this up , but he means well . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It has always been my ‘ extremism ’ or my ‘ unpreparedness to compromise ’ , even though of course I have to compromise all the time . |
| 21 | These criticisms often relate to the inevitable problems of producing standard forms of contract which have to suit all situations , and which are therefore never the perfect answer to any particular project . |
| 22 | You feel that you 're a bit of burden on your friends , perhaps , because you ca n't go to the pub and buy a round of drinks , because you 're bit of a drag on a lot of activities which involve spending some sort of money . |
| 23 | They want to stage a Conker Championship and wonder whether there is any a set of rules which govern running such a competition . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When I was in Germany at the end of the war , I met hundreds of Germans who tried to explain this to me . |
| 26 | Categorisation of this type has been disapproved of explicitly , and has not been adopted by the majority of cases which have eschewed such pigeonholing . |
| 27 | The number of times they 'd heard that . |
| 28 | No , no I think it 's just that er , then your sorts of signs I think to indicate that , that was a no ball because it was , I 'm sure an unintentional er beamer and er , they still did well really to get a bit of back on here so . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | With the economy moving out of recession we expect to see fewer clients cutting back and this should help reduce our terminations . |