Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The architecture shows the influence of the Italian colonisation ; the modern harbour harks back to the healthy export of livestock to the Gulf States ; and the large scale agricultural activity in the adjacent fertile valley now lies dormant with equipment and crops stolen and even the electricity pylons stripped of their cables . |
| 2 | ‘ And what do you suppose Mr Pig and skinny Miss Ginger made of our happy family ? ’ |
| 3 | On the other hand he would have a much enlarged Aquitaine , to be held in sovereignty , the ‘ perpetual liberty ’ which he had instructed the Black Prince to demand of his royal prisoner in 1357 , and which would remove at a stroke the threat of confiscation . |
| 4 | I was of course reminded of my mission regarding the young gentleman and it occurred to me that an outdoor setting , with the general proximity of nature , and in particular the example of the geese close at hand , would not be an unsuitable setting at all in which to convey the sort of message I was bearing . |
| 5 | She was horribly aware she was being manipulated , knew his cynical tactics for what they were , yet she was powerless to resist , and when his mouth traced a line of feather-like kisses across her cheek her lips parted of their own accord , begging for their share of the richness . |
| 6 | In the late Forties , just as her career was sinking to its lowest ebb , and an English critic commented of her notorious egomania that ‘ only bad films are good enough for her ’ , she returned in triumph with one of her most brilliant performances , as the ageing but feisty actress Margo Channing who , to her emotional and professional cost , learns All About Eve ( directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz , 1950 ) . |
| 7 | What the first lady of rock thinks of her rival superstar |
| 8 | The bedroom smelled of her musky perfume ; on the floor by the bed was her diary . |
| 9 | Her eyes dropped of their own accord to his hard mouth . |
| 10 | Eadberht abdicated of his own accord in 758 , handing the kingdom over to his son , Oswulf , and becoming a cleric at York ( where he died in 768 ) , but Oswulf was killed within the year by his own household in 759 near the unidentified settlement of Methel Wongtun and replaced by Aethelwald Moll , who is likely to have been associated with those who were responsible for Oswulf 's murder ; nor did Eadberht 's descendants recover royal power for twenty years . |
| 11 | What did Nick Morley know of her troubles ? |
| 12 | The late Jack Kerouac , for instance , has every one of his works for sale , together with just about all the wild books written of his hard-driving life . |
| 13 | The capacity of a watercourse and the tolerable limits of polluting effluent are calculated according to a mathematical model , which ideally should be applied routinely and objectively to all dischargers regardless of their means , the costs of treatment , their prior efforts , or the demands made of their competitors . |
| 14 | Was he driving slowly on purpose , or had the car decided of its own free will that it was a nice day to relax ? |
| 15 | Thus Galadriel says of her life , ‘ Through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat ’ . |
| 16 | As Galadriel says of her Mirror ( I , 378 ) : it ‘ shows many things , and not all have yet come to pass . |
| 17 | Father Sophrony says of his ministry as spiritual director , ‘ the way is to pray every day with a flaming heart ‘ Do not permit me to be wrong in my work for this service transcends my capacity . ’ |
| 18 | She was riding around town looking for George on his Bay Horse to hear of his encounter with the Dragon . |
| 19 | I saw that Mrs Fairfax approved of my correct behaviour , and I knew that he respected me for it . |
| 20 | Her mouth opened of its own free will to his playfully probing tongue , welcoming the invader . |
| 21 | have a small stock remaining of their Centenary Souvenir Dinner Brochures , and would be happy to send them out to keen rugby folk in return for a cheque for just £1.50 , which will be used to raise funds for the paraplegic centre at Stoke Mandeville . |
| 22 | Richard approved of my having an ‘ interest ’ now it did not dominate my life and make his uncomfortable , and the fact that his political opinions were different from mine , made him feel tolerant and wise . |
| 23 | IN the musical South Pacific , American GIs sung of their pursuit of women on the mythical , tropical island of Bali Hai . |
| 24 | In fact the United States boasted of its capacity for ‘ overkill ’ — another euphemism in the nuclear vocabulary — as if to wipe out one 's adversary several times over could only make the world a safer place . |
| 25 | ( Palmer 1986 , Radway 1984 ) But at the same time , such research raises many questions ; not least , how to make sense of the accounts readers give of their activity as they read . |
| 26 | Born again SHE readers tell of their reincarnations . |
| 27 | Even if we have few possessions or little wealth to give away , may we seek out opportunities to give of our time , our skills and our concern to those who need us . |
| 28 | When the Athenaeum Club disposed of its economics books the inscribed copies from the great Victorian economists were no doubt the first to find a new home . |
| 29 | The first programme consists of his first commissioned ballet , Danses Concertantes , the early whimsical Solitaire , and the powerful Las Hermanas made originally for the Stuttgart Ballet in 1963 , remounted for SWRB in 1976 and not seen at the Wells since 1984 . |
| 30 | In this session Ann talked of her deprived early life and her first marriage , which ended when her husband walked out . |