Example sentences of "[noun] of [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 2 | Recognising the rough apology contained in this speech for the dour ill manners of her spouse , Theda smiled warmly . |
| 3 | I really must apologise for the ill manners of my associate . |
| 4 | as if he 'd absorbed some of the invisible layers of antiquity , some of the manners of his ancestors . |
| 5 | Byng wrote partly to enhance and prolong his pleasure in ‘ tourism ’ , but also to preserve details of ‘ the manners of our travelling , the rates of our provisions ; and of castles , churches and houses ’ . |
| 6 | Crowe lovingly arranged the wheel of her straw hat to cover her face . |
| 7 | Police withdrew the fine and three penalty points when Nichola , 37 , explained no-one was behind the wheel of her car at the time . |
| 8 | She was slumped over the steering wheel of her car . |
| 9 | Fifteen minutes later she was behind the wheel of her car on the out-of-city route . |
| 10 | Elizabeth was slaughtered at the wheel of her boyfriend 's four-wheel-drive truck as she desperately tried to escape . |
| 11 | They are not lumps of clay awaiting the potter 's wheel of their parents ' influence to fashion their personalities , but equal partners in taking initiatives and creating contretemps . |
| 12 | Overweight male execs squeezing themselves behind the wheel of their Mercs ; they died of heart attacks . |
| 13 | A parttime member of the UDR who was the son of a representative on the UUAC was killed when a bomb exploded at a petrol filling station where he and his wife were making a purchase and , in a further incident , a bus driver was shot dead at the wheel of his vehicle . |
| 14 | An inquest heard how the accident happened when the coach driver collapsed at the wheel of his vehicle . |
| 15 | I see him at the wheel of his Mercedes-Benz , on the day the gypsy camp was established , personally ferrying the children from ‘ the central hospital ’ . |
| 16 | Her husband , Leslie was killed at the wheel of his lorry by two joyriders racing each other . |
| 17 | At the end of the road a boy was doing good business from the refrigerated box mounted over the front wheel of his bicycle . |
| 18 | Police are considering the theory that the election campaign was the reason behind an assassination earlier this month in the pretty university town of Montpellier , where Jacques Roseau was shot dead behind the wheel of his Peugeot car . |
| 19 | The 31-year-old Scot skidded across the track into a fence after the back wheel of his Banco Yamaha broke away as he powered round a bend . |
| 20 | Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
| 21 | Abu , as was his unshakeable wont , slept rotundly upright , like a benevolent corpse , behind the wheel of his jeep . |
| 22 | And Malcolm Wilson made it two home drivers in the top 10 when he completed the last timed phase in seventh place behind the wheel of his Ford Sierra Cosworth . |
| 23 | His attempt to pass Alesi resulted in the pair colliding and the right front wheel of his Benetton broke in suspicious circumstances . |
| 24 | On Wednesday , a policeman found Mr Parfitt , 49 , slumped over the wheel of his car near Cheddar Gorge in Somerset . |
| 25 | Hasan hunched over the wheel of his car with a great effort of concentration , swinging it this way and that to avoid the atrocious pot-holes . |
| 26 | He dreams he is sitting at the wheel of his car at the traffic lights , unable to drive off because he ca n't decide whether to kiss Rose when he arrives , or whether to ask her for a cheese and chutney sandwich instead , or where to go for his holidays . |
| 27 | Rory , secretly , did not believe it , he held to his mother 's bitter view that Michael had been a feckless drunk , another feckless Irish drunk , who had died at the wheel of his car while returning from a bout of cross-border carousing in Dundalk . |
| 28 | She dismissed me with a jerk of her head and took the call . |
| 29 | She looked around for Rosa ; and sighed when Sabina indicated , with a jerk of her head , that she was in her room , and fuming . |
| 30 | ‘ The old girl left us in the dark , ’ said Iris with a jerk of her head towards the empty desk . |