Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 2 | For newcomers , the Jordan team has already really caught the eye , and remarkably all the established teams are a little bit frightened of them . |
| 3 | He knew , in his heart , that he had always been a little bit frightened of it really … opening out the throttle … he remembered the feeling of queasiness that had always accompanied that burst of power . |
| 4 | The insurer 's decision on whether to provide cover , and if so how much , depends on what the insurer thinks of you and your customers ' credit ratings . |
| 5 | What would Dixie Dean and Tommy Lawton make of it all ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Certainly his successors were lesser men than he and wielded less authority ; after 1540 , until at any rate the reign of Elizabeth , the office was to some extent what its holder made of it . |
| 8 | ‘ And what do you suppose Mr Pig and skinny Miss Ginger made of our happy family ? ’ |
| 9 | Despite this disastrous beginning , however , Giovanna would be there in the morning , her own family circumstances permitting , and she would be much obliged if the Signora would make sure that her children were up and dressed , and the breakfast eaten , so that she could see that the house was returned to something like the order which Signor Kettering expected of it . |
| 10 | She had not missed the fact that the coffee-table was piled high with past copies of Query and his arrogant manner was beginning to annoy her to such an extent that she was just about ready to storm off through the door and let Mr Parnham make of it what he could . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The opportunity cost of something is measured as the sum of all the other things that you have to forgo in order to have that something . |
| 13 | Married women whose husbands provided the support expected of them , however , had a low risk of depression following life events . |
| 14 | As described earlier , Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) have argued that they now have good evidence that the prior existence of a close supportive relationship is protective against depression if that person provides the support expected of them at the time of a crisis . |
| 15 | Formal education was shelved , which was a relief , because the unctuous kind of diligence expected of her at school had convinced her that she was both stupid and sinful . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 18 | This controversy , usefully outlined in the Report of the Committee on One-Parent Families ( Finer , 1974 , Vol. 2 , pp. 136–47 ) crystal-lises the state 's dilemma of how to deal with women who , by ‘ failing ’ to play the part expected of them ( i.e. by ending their marriages or by having a child without ever having been married ) find themselves without the support of a man . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Did Lucy think of herself as that heterosexually convenient phenomenon , the ‘ non-orgasmic woman ’ ; had sex been awful for her ? |
| 21 | The account that follows is a mixture of indisputable facts and local traditions , with an indication given of which are which , as often as possible . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | What the first lady of rock thinks of her rival superstar |
| 24 | The bedroom smelled of her musky perfume ; on the floor by the bed was her diary . |
| 25 | ‘ All I could do was scream down the phone — God knows what the listeners made of it . ’ |
| 26 | But this pig thinks of nothing else . ’ |
| 27 | At this Alice could have asked , What does Bert think of him ? |
| 28 | Both managers said they would assess managerial competence by a person 's ability to achieve the goals expected of them by the organisation . |
| 29 | Her eyes dropped of their own accord to his hard mouth . |
| 30 | He knew where his vote would go , expected no good to come of it and was n't worried . |