Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going then to the Uc Serefeli mosque , Fahreddin Acemi had the people summoned , ascended the and " exposed [ the Hurufis ' ] vain beliefs , adjudged them guilty of unbelief and heresy , and gave judgment that the killing of them was incumbent and that such as aided in the slaying of them would be greatly rewarded " . |
| 2 | Haldane and Hogben 's Marxism made them critical of pedigree studies because it taught them that biological determinism should be supplemented by economic determinism . |
| 3 | Far from being of a piece with classical theories , computational theories share with early modern ones the nominalism that made them oblivious of what was important in the classical tradition : namely the irreducibility of thought and universals . |
| 4 | ‘ So we set to work on the pictures , enormous ones and little gems which would all go in the modern interior , and made them full of off-white and near-pink . ’ |
| 5 | There were several questions I would have liked to have put to them , but had I done so I would have altered the environment for them and made them hyper-conscious of their limitations . |
| 6 | Well for a number of reasons , that 's one of them that 's one spinner and one yarn , and he offers me all of those colours , ex stock , in sort of ten days delivery and er one carton at a time , if I wanted . |
| 7 | But to say as much to this sentimental woman's-magazine lady would be asking for trouble , undoing all the efforts he had made to assure them all of his true warm humanity — emotional lot ! |
| 8 | And one is encouraging them all of the time to be able to look at their own work as a group , as well as an individual , and make assessments of it themselves . |
| 9 | Yet others may lack both religious belief and any experience that might make them dubious of their secularism . |
| 10 | The concept of ‘ manliness , of course was derived from public-school culture , which also inspired Smith to bind ‘ the boys together and create an esprit de corps that would make them proud of their company , jealous of its honour , ashamed to do anything to disgrace it , and prepared to make any sacrifice rather than be dismissed from it ’ . |
| 11 | The column reportedly reveals that Mirror chief executive David Montgomery and other senior staff hold options to buy shares in the newspaper group which could make them hundreds of thousands of pounds ' worth of profits . |
| 12 | However that did n't make them guilty of murder . |
| 13 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 14 | I do not yet understand it , but although I was once a keen and proud European , there are things in it that would now make me one of the most sceptical . |
| 15 | I drink everything I earn , which does n't make me much of a drunk I might tell you . ’ |
| 16 | That which I trust shall make me worthy of your high esteem . |
| 17 | I knew that his clothes , his manners and uneducated way of speaking would make me ashamed of him . |
| 18 | Do n't make me ashamed of you . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ And indeed we might say that the very greatest soldiers — Joshua , David , Alexander — who lent me one of my Christian names — Caesar , of course , our own great Alfred — the only king we call Great — Edward — and we could extend the list into the present — all have been scholars in some manner . |
| 20 | ‘ Bill lent me some of his architecture books , ’ she explained . |
| 21 | They asked me first of all why I paint on paper and I 'm using older to paint on . |
| 22 | She drew off the boots and put them , lolling side by side , as it were breathing together , before she stuffed them full of tissue-paper to keep their shape . |
| 23 | I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat . |
| 24 | With one doctor , one nurse made me one of the doctors told me to get up . |
| 25 | I realized I just had to accept him for what he was , and when I learnt to do that , he did the same to me - accepted me without question , in all my imperfection , in all that made me unworthy of him . |
| 26 | It has confirmed my belief in the snowball effect around EOP issues , but also made me aware of , and have strength to cope with , backlashes — such as the question ‘ which group or interest are you representing ? ’ |
| 27 | The international action made me aware of the necessity for international co-operation in the fight for the fundamental rights of man and reassured me that human compassion is still alive in this world . |
| 28 | This made me aware of how badly I 'd done with the domestic arrangements . |
| 29 | This dawning knowledge made me aware of my isolation . |
| 30 | but er they were a bit of a nuisance because more than once , I must admit I erm , I collided with them which rather made me aware of their presence but anyway erm , then just beyond I am sorry , on the erm right hand side , a little way down this corridor , were the stairs up to the next floor which was in those days Public Health |