Example sentences of "of [det] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No you wo n't want a copy of that photograph let me tell you . |
| 2 | ‘ Not a word out of that dog to let me know you were coming , ’ her mother said crossly . |
| 3 | Saying fantastic erm and then you can say look , as it 's been of some benefit do you remember what I said earlier ? |
| 4 | Before the scientific revolution of Galileo and Newton , it was obvious that if an object was to move , then it required a force or cause of some kind to make it move . |
| 5 | Even though some expert clauses do not specifically reserve the right for the parties to make submissions or representations to the expert ( see 8.15 ) , it is unlikely that this right will be lost through its omission , because the expert will usually want to receive submissions or representations of some kind to help him understand the issue he has to determine . |
| 6 | With even-handed ridicule , John Mortimer spends much of this novel making you laugh at both . |
| 7 | What do you make of this play do you think ? |
| 8 | So okay which is the easiest one to work out out of this lot do you think . |
| 9 | it appeared to me little short of a miracle that a hard , matter-of-fact scientist should have been able to establish a real friendship with wild , freeliving animals , and the realisation of this fact made me feel … as though man 's expulsion from the Garden of Eden had thereby lost some of its bitterness . |
| 10 | The terms of this account make it sound like a common occurrence ; only the rank of the victim was uncommon . |
| 11 | How much of this food do you eat ? |
| 12 | Their bleedings and leakages , their lumps and growths , their peculiarly painful-sounding surgical operations — scraping of wombs , stripping of veins , amputation of breasts — the mere mention of such things makes him wince and cringe , and lately the menopause has added new items to the repertory : the hot flush , flooding , and something sinister called a bloat . |
| 13 | Mr Brown 's respectful reception of these corkers made me wonder what he looks like . |
| 14 | Which if any of these magazines do you read or look at on a regular basis ? |
| 15 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 16 | In none of these cases do we think of the owner as having parted with the right of ownership , though it may be that the contract between the parties creates rights in favour of the bailee which the owner can not use his right of ownership to override . |
| 17 | If all three of these things make us explore new territories of the imagination , the flight of ten blue-lined Steps which rise to a pinnacle in the room next door is another matter all together . |
| 18 | They will want to use their qualifications to shape their future , relying on the currency of these awards to help them gain access to more education/training , to support job applications or to underpin planned personal development . |
| 19 | Which of these items do you think have been produced by Royal Mail mainly for collectors collectors rather than for the public at large ? |
| 20 | Er , on card C , which of these channels do you watch most often nowadays ? |
| 21 | Arguments about the quality of particular animals in a payment scarcely arose when the payment was in a standardized currency : no one asked , ‘ Well now , which of these dinars do you promise me ? ’ |
| 22 | How many of these locks do you think you 'd have done a day of the cylinder lock ? |
| 23 | And when people do come up to you and they have problems , about what percentage of those problems do you find you ca n't help them with ? |
| 24 | But on none of those occasions did I put the case in the way that the Leader of the House put his case tonight , making it all the more necessary for us to oppose him now . |