Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was researching my book , The Sporting Gentleman 's Gentleman , stories from Scottish keepers , stalkers and gillies , Jimmy Ross of Rothes told me a different tale about Arthur Wood and his ‘ wee Blue Charm ’ . |
| 2 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 3 | He was immediately dispatched to the scene , where his energy , intelligence and presence of mind made him the chief decision-taker in the first days after the explosion of reactor number four . |
| 4 | Against Fareham the juniors trailed 2-1 at half-time , but a change of tactics brought them a 6-2 win . |
| 5 | The Queen 's visit went ahead and ‘ the genial and warm-hearted people [ of Ghanaj gave her an unprecedented reception . … |
| 6 | In the last-named work he opened up lines of interpretation which , even if somewhat modified since , set firm foundations on which other scholars might build : the exuberant vigour and almost Niagara-like outpouring of scholarship gave it a memorable quality . |
| 7 | Because of that , the National Farmers Union of Scotland gave me a lengthy and accurate brief . |
| 8 | Their strictures on the ‘ maximalism ’ of the Bolsheviks , on the ‘ premature ’ nature of the October revolution , and on the backwardness of Russia gave them a broad area of common ground with the liberal view . |
| 9 | He was president of the British Mycological Society ( 1927 ) and the Association of Economic Biologists ( 1928–9 ) , and in 1938 , the University of Aberdeen awarded him an honorary LLD . |
| 10 | MCI Communications Corp reports that the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago awarded it a 10-year multi-million dollar contract to provide circuits for the new FedNet communications system will combine the networks of 12 Federal Reserve district banks and three new centres into one network ; FedNet will offer the banks high speed data services and is responsible for circuit installation and maintenance . |
| 11 | And although the old woman 's premonition was an unhappy one and mention of Daniel caused her an immediate spear of pain , she nevertheless felt purged ; she always felt some elation after being in the company of the story-teller . |
| 12 | My twin sister is a nurse and I suppose all the blood and thunder of things took me a different way . |
| 13 | Odd hairs straggled out of various warts , and the brown freckles of age gave them a strange resemblance to the stones . |
| 14 | A survey in the crucial state of Ohio gave him a slender lead . |
| 15 | At either end of the village two long avenues of trees gave it a friendly air . |
| 16 | A lot of girls compromised themselves a great deal more than I did . ’ |
| 17 | She , Madame Gauthier , wife of the proprietor , had her business to attend to , and this kind of scandal did it no good at all . |
| 18 | The Amir of Qatar gave her a pear-shaped pearl , a gold necklace and the ultimate prezzie , ‘ a bowl of lapis lazuli , mounted on two prancing gold horses , themselves being diamond encrusted . ’ |
| 19 | The element of risk gave it an added excitement . |
| 20 | But hard as John Meaney tried he found it an uphill struggle against Hughes , who was firing on all cylinders , and his great ‘ cool ’ blessed with a wide repertoire of shots saw him a worthy winner 4–0 from seven frames . |
| 21 | That piece of information gave her a severe jolt of alarm . |
| 22 | The charge was reasonable enough — a few pence per bird — and with a community in which many families kept hens or whose menfolk were able to buy them direct from the country farmer Rev. Levitt 's qualification as a slaughterer of fowls brought him a regular , if modest , bonus on his salary . |
| 23 | Being out of school gave him a wonderful feeling . |
| 24 | Richards argued that the suburb 's slow accretion of detail made it a contemporary form of vernacular architecture , in the picturesque tradition . |