Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a small group of young people who , as it happens were also associated with the bed-and-breakfast on Iffley Road , erm and several of them had moved between this house and the bed-and-breakfast . |
| 2 | She was aware of a past neither of them had spoken of much — at least , not while she 'd been there . |
| 3 | They were things both of them had sacrificed to this relationship which she was beginning to understand was destructive to both of them . |
| 4 | There are unlikely to be any Scottish Conservative Back Benchers either , not only because there are so few of them but because none of them has participated in this debate , apart from a brief intervention by the hon. and learned member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) that could hardly have been described as serious participation . |
| 5 | I do not think there is any question of them having embroidered on these events in any way . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know ’ , the Dowager Countess leaned close to Lucille , ‘ why some of them bother to dress at all ! |
| 7 | ‘ Could any of them have come into this kitchen ? ’ asked Rose . |
| 8 | Those who were cured after their night at the sanctuary were permitted to record their dreams and commemorate their recoveries on votive tablets , some of which have survived to this day . |
| 9 | ‘ Talk of mad dogs and Englishmen , how brave of you to go visiting at this hour , Rosette and I have n't stirred a finger for ages . ’ |
| 10 | Well I , I just thought perhaps erm , you know , if there was any erm sort of up-front to this idea of you know going through some sort of dialectical model career towards socialism . |
| 11 | Recruiters need a summary of who has applied under each vacancy , and what is the current status of their application . |
| 12 | We had noticed the week before that er that we had some Penguin biscuits in and er really sort of we kept looking at these Penguins |
| 13 | Er I 'm afraid a lot of it had gone by that time . |
| 14 | The loss of her family , the futile years of servitude , even Edmund 's death — none of it had hurt like this . |
| 15 | Criticism of the team and its management has been stinging through the season and much of it has come from former players . |
| 16 | They left after less than two hours of talks to report back to Saddam Hussein on the face of it having agreed to all allied demands . |
| 17 | Despite this , however , it was possible to isolate two major roles within the group and to gain some insight concerning the requirements of anyone wishing to graduate into this group . |
| 18 | Three years ago a tortoise of ours got killed like that and on just about this very spot . |
| 19 | Next we knew , we must take the road which led to Cherbourg , where we hoped to find out more of what had happened on that tragic occasion — and we were soon on our way to the Château de la Brehouse at St Pierre Eglise , where we were to spend the night . |
| 20 | When we left Baghdad , there was no further news of what had happened to those on board , except that the ship had been forced to unload its cargo in the port of Kabbous , Oman . |
| 21 | I was crying because of what had happened to both of us , which was so sad and pitiful . |
| 22 | He was concerned simply with the effect of what had happened in this particular case . |
| 23 | Gradin is the reflection of what has happened to all of us . |
| 24 | We have a different role , but nevertheless and even , an important one is perhaps in even looking further ahead than the Emergency Planning and therefore I would support er in being brief I would support very much erm Mr 's er motion if you can call it a motion which has been seconded and I hope that other members will will agree that erm we can pass this on to the Chief Executive who obviously will be doing this in any case , but it would give er a a an added er measure if you like er I 'm talking in terms of member involvement in pressing for er a wider look of what has happened after this sad flood has been dealt with . |
| 25 | But Madam Deputy Speaker , these order do n't pay any attention to a number of matters in what I would regard as the public interest and whilst the minister as I say , has quite rightly paid tribute to professional organisations involved in this process , we must never forget that we 're here to represent the public interest and not just er er specific professional interests that may be relevant in each case and indeed in the light of what has happened in this field of enforcement er over the last two years , the minister must be aware that the public are requiring higher standards of commercial probity . |
| 26 | ‘ Forgive me , Lady Theodosia , but I could not help but overhear something of what has transpired in this room . ’ |
| 27 | Also , the UK Customs people seem to have a penchant for opening packages with disks in , and whilst I 've never heard of anything going missing from such a package , they never seem to have grasped the idea that magnets and x-rays do n't mix well with floppy disks . |
| 28 | He acknowledged asking Watanabe to help silence Nihon Kominto , but suggested that he had " no recollection of anything having to do with that problem " . |
| 29 | We were greatly influenced by the work of the FMS and some of us had collaborated with that organization back in 1968 during the teachers ' massive strike . |
| 30 | ‘ At least none of us had carried over any problems from the England game . |