Example sentences of "of [verb] [pron] [noun sg] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the horse is to be trailered , it should first have some experience of eating its dinner in the trailer . |
| 2 | Had not his grandson Raymond V fulfilled his crusading obligation in his early youth , thereby freeing himself from the necessity of interrupting his career in the county , the principality of Toulouse might have disintegrated altogether . |
| 3 | Sergio and Bacco , Lothar had begun the process of establishing his control in the diaconate , the area round his church . |
| 4 | Baby carriers/slings leave your hands and arms free , and are a good way of transporting your baby in the first few months . |
| 5 | The choice of " Victory Day " for the occasion was the Caudillo 's way of restating his belief in the legitimacy of his regime and of reminding its members of their shared responsibility in its creation and their common interest in its continuation . |
| 6 | On the surface there is the process of deciding which department in the organisation will have what to spend next year . |
| 7 | Davenport is thinking of selling his interest in the company ‘ at some time in the not-too-distant future ’ . |
| 8 | A good way of emphasizing your interest in the job and of keeping your image fresh in the mind of the interviewer is to write a follow-up letter after the interview . |
| 9 | All police forces will be able to check erm , if they , sort of find your video in the boot of somebody 's car , they 'll be able to check if it 's marked . |
| 10 | The Cottage in the Wood Hotel , Malvern Wells , Hereford & Worcester , can not be accused of burying its head in the sand with its decision to introduce South African ostrich to its à la carte lunch and dinner menu . |
| 11 | Tobie nurses a dream of spending his life in the field with Urbino , but he 'd find he 's unpredictable too . |
| 12 | We have seen that landowners have from early times sought methods of retaining their land in the family . |
| 13 | The claims will also leave the country stunned today as millions count the cost of Christmas and the chances of losing their job in the New Year . |
| 14 | AT Books Etc in Victoria Street , opposite Victoria Station yesterday , I spotted Chris Patten , the Conservative chairman who , in the wake of losing his seat in the General Election , has now been offered the governorship of Hong Kong . |
| 15 | I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man . |
| 16 | To include any such anticipatory provision has the merit of bringing home to the individual partners the importance of viewing their involvement in the firm as a long term commitment , which may serve to reduce , if not to eliminate , the pain felt if and when a cash call has to be made . |
| 17 | What the second Mrs Van Butchell thought of having her predecessor in the house is not recorded , neither was Hunter 's opinion . |
| 18 | Given the growth in his ordinary income and the difficulty of estimating its size in the early years of his reign , it would not be very useful to work out an average of the total revenue over the whole reign . |
| 19 | It had been Mme Guérigny 's and Montaine 's intimacy with the creatures of the forest that had given them the idea of hiding their deserter in the cave . |
| 20 | The infant learns to talk of hearing its mother in the garden , smelling hamburgers cooking in the kitchen , or seeing the dog enjoying itself with a ball or being hurt by the cat . |
| 21 | The presence of maids obviates any need for husbands to undertake traditionally female tasks and so , while a woman following her career does challenge a husband 's machismo in the sense that it gives her some independence ( both economically and socially ) , it does not do so in the sense of changing his role in the home . |
| 22 | He looked very well and was full of talk of making his way in the world and starting a business some day . |
| 23 | Glancing to his left , he wondered why the Bogeyman chose to live in a room on the first-floor landing instead of making his lair in the cellar , where he would surely feel more at home . |
| 24 | One or two other species of bird have developed a much more accurate technique of finding their way in the dark . |
| 25 | The ILP , for its part , accused the Communists of misusing their influence in the NUWM . |
| 26 | The implications of these facts should be obvious and the status of chimpanzees as a threatened species is a powerful consideration in favour of banning their use in the laboratory , if only as a remedial measure , despite the pressures of the AIDS lobby . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , it would appear that several local gentlemen are rather shy of investing their money in the three per cent bonds . |
| 28 | Certainly at that time it was accepted that a political career was likely to be an advantage for a barrister aspiring to a judgeship , though it was important that his seat should be safe , as no government would wish to run the possibility of diminishing its strength in the House . |
| 29 | And if that child is sensitive and caring and does not wish to hurt or disappoint his parents , perhaps he may even enter the medical profession and spend years doing something he does not really want to do while denying himself the opportunity of fulfilling his life in the way he would have chosen . |
| 30 | Hand signals can be developed to a greater extent to train a dog which is deaf , although there is always the problem of attracting its attention in the first instance , particularly if it runs off . |