Example sentences of "of [pron] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I do n't actually know if he 's proud of my work , but he 's certainly proud of me as a person if that makes any sense . ’ |
| 2 | because landlords were seen as progressive and they might want , they di the erm communists did n't want to get rid of them as a class but in their feudal capacity . |
| 3 | Consider a common situation ; a manufacturer sells a number of his products to a wholesaler ; the wholesaler sells some of them to a retailer and the retailer sells one of them to a consumer . |
| 4 | In consequence , there are many single wavenumber patterns , some of them of a complexity that makes them not instantly recognizable as such ; for example , one of them is a hexagonal pattern rather like Fig. 4.9 . |
| 5 | If it 's jewellery it 's harder , it will show up , erm if you 're marking things like engagements rings , then the best thing to do is actually take photographs of them with a ruler or some sort of erm comparison of the size of the item cos if you do like a a ring on a photograph it 's gon na , it 's gon na come out like a , so if you got a ruler to say , you know , it 's only sort of one and a half inches in width or whatever , then we can actually get a clear picture of , of that . |
| 6 | Well , they would have showed a wider picture of the actual picture , and apparently they take , co , the photographers had taken a baby away from it 's mother he 's standing in the middle of a desert , and there 's a picture of them with a baby and all these photographers photographing it ! |
| 7 | Carrie saw a big bowl of them on a table and then their reflection — and hers — in what seemed hundreds of mirrors . |
| 8 | We 're gon na stick hold of them for a minute or two because we have n't |
| 9 | There was silence between the three of them for a moment as they returned each other 's stare ; then Joe said , ‘ If you do n't wish to act for me I can make other arrangements . ’ |
| 10 | There are more than twenty circuses currently touring Britain , most of them without an elephant or a tiger in sight . |
| 11 | She mothered all of them in a way that Jennie could not now she was becoming more erratic . |
| 12 | His eyes swept the terrasse 's clientèle and an eyebrow twitched as his glance passed one of them in a way that directed attention to the woman sitting there , with her back to the street , facing them through the glass . |
| 13 | In the nearby village of Tashlak about 200 youths armed with weapons and incendiary devices , ‘ many of them in an alcoholic or narcotic stupor ’ , destroyed over 400 houses and motor vehicles as well as several public buildings . |
| 14 | The trustee must not , except with the leave of the court , proceed to declare a dividend whilst there is pending any application to the court to reverse or vary a decision of his on a proof or to expunge a proof or to reduce the amount claimed ( r 11.5(2) ) . |
| 15 | one of his in a set and he says |
| 16 | The Chief-Corporal to whom I had given my sisters ' addresses at Canjuers was there , and he told me that he had sent my oldest sister a photograph of himself in a tank and one of his apartment in La Rochelle . |
| 17 | Research shows that people form 90 per cent of their opinion of you within a minute and a half of meeting you . |
| 18 | I 've been to Stanford Hall where they have you in a circle but at least , I think , wh however you sit , you must have a president in front of you in a chair and someone to keep a little bit of order . |
| 19 | It was concerned with the status of itself as an organization and of the degrees it awarded : the question of status was , in Christopherson 's words , ‘ there , but not written in minutes ! ’ |
| 20 | A cat may approach its human owner and purposely make a nuisance of itself in a way that it has learnt will cause anger . |
| 21 | If you are looking for a job there is no reason why you can not keep track of everything with a notepad and a pen . |
| 22 | There was a transparent sachet of something brown and thick , chocolate paste or miso ; one dried-up anchovy in an open tin , its coat of salt dried to a hard crust ; and a smear of something on a saucer that might once have been pesto sauce . |
| 23 | A wooden kitchen table with some crocks on it , a car battery split long ago , three chairs and a broken clothes horse , a pile of something in a corner that could have been a tramp 's bed , or , indeed , a long-dead tramp . |
| 24 | While acknowledging that Sarah seemed to be infatuated with George , her sister was so many years her junior that she still thought of her as a child and dismissed her obvious affection for George as innocent admiration . |
| 25 | A stocky , even heavy woman , with straight blonde hair that was parted in the middle and otherwise unregulated , she padded about with firm , deliberate steps , not looking much at anyone , not smiling easily as Caroline did , only nodding indifferently when Alice caught a glimpse of her through a door or coming efficiently through the hall . |
| 26 | He is tickled by the idea they all have of him as a fool and a hypocrite and a mass-murderer . |
| 27 | He therefore earnestly begs of me that since you deservedly have the nomination of an Gardner to the Chelsea Garden , which I understand is now vacant , that I would address you in his behalf that at least you would accept of him as an Candidate if there are other competitors and , if found sufficiently qualifyd you would propose him accordingly as you shall find he deserves . |
| 28 | He walked back from the shop and the plate of meat and potatoes was put in front of him with a regularity that would have pleased an army officer . |
| 29 | We can not escape the conclusion that many of those employed in the Service feel a deep sense of dissatisfaction with the organisation and management of it as a whole and that a gulf has grown up between the establishments in the field and the staff who work in them on the one hand and headquarters at the Home Office in London on the other . |
| 30 | I suppose I have always thought of it as a possibility but his actual decision to marry was a surprise . ’ |