Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting rid of me had proved too much for him and he was now trying to force through a muddled compromise . |
| 2 | Although apprentices wasted a lot of time in their early years , most of them had picked up enough of the trade to be useful typesetters long before the seven years were up . |
| 3 | Some of them wanted to charge as much as twelve and six just for a skirt . |
| 4 | And none of them fails to recognise where these negative feelings come from , that such feelings have been taught by a particular upbringing and environment . |
| 5 | Do they mean none transferable from person to person or from book to book , erm , for everything it does n't say and if they know , both of them stopped sending out those |
| 6 | I think some of them do , yes , I know s er some of them have said how much they enjoyed it when it started off first , but er but now it 's just got that wee bit more serious . |
| 7 | Then , out of his overcoat pocket he produced a safety razor-blade , with which he sharpened the pencil he always used for his often indecipherable , cramped little scribbles — a sign , a psychiatrist later told me , of someone wanting to attract as little attention as possible , as in the case of Robert Walser . |
| 8 | A Hornby clockwork train and a Number 4 Meccano set , both of which had given far more pleasure to John Redburn than they had to his son . |
| 9 | Thus , twenty years ago , and already bemoaning what had happened in ‘ the last twenty years ’ , the BMA was to be found rehearsing the familiar diagnoses of the ‘ new ’ youth problem — most of which appeared to have very little to do with medical science . |
| 10 | And , given the much valued British tradition of attending a university or polytechnic away from home , who will fund the additional sleeping accommodation for students , the absence of which has attracted so much adverse publicity this week ? |
| 11 | ‘ A guest of mine has fixed up some domestic droids to act like waitresses . |
| 12 | In the past 11 years , some of us have done precisely that , justifiably sending endless letters to the Department of the Environment . |
| 13 | Soon after John came back from Taylor House several of us started meeting together more formally . |