Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE next leg of my journey takes me the short drive to Regensburg and from there I follow a minor road to Cham , last stop before the German-Czech border post . |
| 2 | Policemen of my generation call them the funnies . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 4 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may be amused to hear that one of my sons spotted you the other day training with Korchnoi and the Brighton and Hove Albion football team . |
| 5 | Funnily enough , it was one of my nephews brought him the message — Josh 's eldest boy , Jimmy . |
| 6 | These people now face annual medical inspection for the rest of their lives to assess what the radiation may have bequeathed to them in terms of a legacy of cancer or birth defects . |
| 7 | After a long descent the shaft widened a little , and the light of their torches showed them the interior of the mine , the southern end of the tunnellings . |
| 8 | ‘ Instead I find myself acting also in the capacity of lady 's maid and sick-nurse , for neither of which occupations have I the least experience . |
| 9 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 10 | Then the butcher goes to the church to take leave of the priest , and as a token of his gratitude sells him the sheepskin at a knock-down price of two sous . |
| 11 | The prospect of being marooned on Gullholm for days with a Heathcliff bereft of his Cathy gave her the creeps . |
| 12 | Either he was smiling , or the gaunt hollows of his face gave him the daunting appearance of a smile . |
| 13 | The IR visor of his helmet showed him the desert as if by the light of an overcast day . |