Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We of course did it in nineteen eighty six , er but this year there are about fifteen hundred officers involved from fifteen different police forces . |
| 2 | Charles I sold the manor to the City of London in 1628 to raise finance , after which it changed hands several times until the Bethell family of Rise held it through most of the 17th and 18th centuries . |
| 3 | What gave rise to the protest of the intelligentsia , and what lay behind the revolutionary protest of its extreme wing , was the lack of opportunity afforded them by tsarist society . |
| 4 | Her sigh of exasperation reached him from 3,000 miles away . |
| 5 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 6 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 7 | The latter was begun in 1617 for William and Mary White , but rebuilt in 1633 ; when the iron-founding and gentry family of Freeman acquired it in 1666 , they refashioned the interior with some of the finest stucco work in Sussex , masking the simpler tastes of its earlier owners . |
| 8 | There are also these privatization a lot of husbands and wives bought these shares of privatization had it in joint names , well that tax will have been deducted and can be reclaimed also , so er this was a change that came about with independent taxation . |
| 9 | Crowther 's concern that the lay press was weak in its coverage of science led him in 1928 to confront The Manchester Guardian 's legendary editor C. P. Scott with the quip that although there was n't such a profession as science journalism , he , J. G. Crowther , proposed to invent it . |
| 10 | His quiet friendliness , calm courage and sense of humour endeared him to all , Burmans and British alike . |
| 11 | Only its solidity and quality of construction saved it from total destruction . |
| 12 | This sense of perspective led him to lucid conclusions about the inescapable reality of decolonization and the long-term interests of France , which were better served by accepting decolonization than by resisting it . |