Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not leaving you here all alone , so it 's a case of you either coming with me , or of me staying here for the rest of the night and neither of us getting any rest . |
| 2 | ‘ I just hope you do n't think it 's disrespectful of me saying so in the circumstances . ’ |
| 3 | He preferred more ambiguity and liked the idea of one or other of them sleepwalking accidentally into the other 's room ; that would have been less crude than prior agreements . |
| 4 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 5 | You now have the cards with all of them facing upwards except the top one . |
| 6 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 7 | All the ages of man and all the races of Islam seemed to be represented : mustachioed Arabs , dark-skinned Somalis , small South Indians in lungis , huge Delhi businessmen bulging out of their pyjamas , prodigiously bearded Afghans swathed in shawls like Old Testament prophets — all of them surging up through the Meena Bazaar towards the Jama Masjid steps . |
| 8 | They leaned close momentarily then began to come forward again , slowly , looking about them , the first of them pointing up at the ruined monastery . |
| 9 | It would be nice to think of them working together on the training ground . |
| 10 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
| 11 | The men it was meant for now rush into the road in front of her , one of them vaulting straight over the taxi bonnet as Rainbow bangs on the brakes . |
| 12 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 13 | They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest . |
| 14 | Oh , he had them locked antler to antler now , two proud stags with lowered heads and rolling eyes , gathering their sinews for the thrust that should send one of them backing out of the contest . |
| 15 | And somehow , he could n't imagine either of them coming around to the house for some beers and a pizza and a John Wayne movie on the video . |
| 16 | They do not fly at ordinary room temperatures and they crawl only slowly , so there will not be much danger of them crawling out of the container and escaping . |
| 17 | And the two of them shuffling in with the hoods of their duffel coats over their heads and their school scarves pulled over noses and mouths like a pair of monks doing the rounds during the Black Death . |
| 18 | Taking a break from country hideaways , we hunted for a retreat in central London for those of you staying over for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition treat ( see page 150 ) . |
| 19 | Do n't like two of you coming home on the bus but , especially when it 's cold and horrible ! |
| 20 | His only certain memory of his mother was of her looking out of the same kitchen window and calling to him as he played on the grass . |
| 21 | He stood there blankly , not knowing what to say or do , remembering only the sound of her crying out in the darkness and how awful he had felt , alone , kneeling there on the dyke , impotent to act . |
| 22 | She found herself in a large square hall , with a pair of half-glazed doors ahead of her leading directly into the kitchen , and wooden double doors to her left , giving access to the rest of the house . |
| 23 | He had a picture of her sitting permanently on the edge of a table at Dubal 's swinging one leg and looking out at him from the group she was with . |
| 24 | She did n't like the idea of him prowling around inside the house while she was working . |
| 25 | ‘ Is there any chance of him coming out in the near future , do you think ? ’ |
| 26 | Do you think there 's any chance of him coming back for the opening of — ? ’ |
| 27 | It was n't a warm day though it was meant to be spring , and she felt colder thinking of him standing about in the mud of a building site . |
| 28 | The joint BPXM-Pemex team has set about the task ahead of them by cataloguing a mass of seismic , well and production data , much of it dating back to the 1930s . |
| 29 | All of it eating away at the spiritual fabric of existence for thousands upon thousands of years . |
| 30 | In so far as the fear of relativism is of it becoming even for the most aware a matter of taste whether one is selfish or unselfish , compassionate or cruel , the fear is misplaced . |