Example sentences of "of [pron] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I opened one of them and saw English words I could feel the tears pricking at the back of my eyes . |
| 2 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 3 | Stake out plenty of territory , always a high-status activity , by spreading your papers in front of you and using expansive body language ( especially if you are physically small , or female ) . |
| 4 | This was a small mercy for those who fell foul of her and faced ruined careers or worse . |
| 5 | He saw 2 cars in front of him and said one car , which was driven by Anthony Gallagher , had indicated left but pulled out in front of him . |
| 6 | Yet when his campaign train reached McCarthy 's state of Wisconsin , where he planned to speak in defence of his old chief , he thought better of it and let that guy from the gutter stay on the train . |
| 7 | ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he added Coun. John Williams , the Labour group leader , said Coun. Richmond 's invitation was premature : ‘ He is being too hasty . |
| 10 | I love aspects of it and hate other aspects of it . |
| 11 | So when you remove a young child 's hand from an electric plug you tap the back of it and accompany this action with a firm NO . |
| 12 | Why do n't you get rid of it and give that customer a twenty four hour delivery service |
| 13 | The Bank of England stepped in , took over the running of it and provided sufficient loans to cover the demands of its creditors . |
| 14 | Steve says he gets great satisfaction out of it and making one par in a round of 18 makes it worthwhile . |
| 15 | Saw how he grasped every last detail of it and held that knowledge tight in his memory . |
| 16 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |
| 17 | Alexandra Palace and Park , the latest company willing to take up the baton , has been administering a relaunch for the premises through the offices of Bizat , a genial exhibitions and catering specialist , who had been at the place only 11 weeks , in 1980 , when afire near the great organ gutted much of it and necessitated major reconstruction . |