Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1877 Anglicans founded the Guild of St Matthew , the first organization inside the Church of England to address itself to the social implications of Christianity since the 1850s . |
| 2 | It had not been lessened when William of Ypres , the surly Flemish commander of the royalist army , had begun to question her extensively about the size and strength of the garrisons at Gloucester and Bristol , the state of the Empress 's exchequer , the loyalty of her supporters , and whether Geoffrey of Anjou was planning an invasion of England to help himself to the throne by right of his wife . |
| 3 | The style of the First Book of Maccabees betrays itself as a translation from a Hebrew text : St Jerome apparently still saw the Hebrew original ( Div . |
| 4 | The Second Book of Maccabees presents itself as a summary of a work in five books composed by Jason of Cyrene , otherwise unknown ( 2.19–28 ) . |
| 5 | Sandys went off to Washington at the end of January to update himself on the latest US operational thinking and advances in weapon technology . |
| 6 | Similarly , if you have a regular tutorial at say , 11 am each Tuesday , it makes sense to set aside some part of Monday to prepare yourself for the Tuesday tutorial ( see Chapters on managing your time at college ) . |
| 7 | On 8 November Mr Jones of Stamford offered himself as a pupil , as did Mr Bloxam of Alcester . |
| 8 | Ahead of us the tall pines that stretch out across the frozen plain of Estonia distinguished themselves from the snow-coated sky and earth . |
| 9 | They plan a tour of Britain to familiarise themselves with the British style and the first place they wish to stop is Dundee for the game with United . |
| 10 | Bishop John Crowley writing to the priests and religious in the diocese , says : ‘ The next Synod of Bishops concerns itself with the Consecrated Life in the Church and the World . |
| 11 | There is nearly unanimous agreement among historians about the significance of the ‘ impossible situation ’ in which the Plantagenet king-dukes of Aquitaine found themselves in the later thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries . |