Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The question is , what do we do about it ? ’ asked Reed of the Treasury . |
| 2 | And his toe-nails were long and curved , like the horns of a goat , reminding Melanie of the cloven hooves she thought he might have had . |
| 3 | The young woman pursed her lips and , for a few brief seconds , smiled sweetly , reminding Corbett of the pious , beautiful , young nun he once knew . |
| 4 | In what appears to have been a carefully stage-managed cry of unanimity , it was agreed that Edward should never rule over them again , and the Bishop of Hereford took a delegation which was headed by William Trussell to Renilworth to inform Edward of the assembly 's decision . |
| 5 | MacLean later took the unusual step of amending his original statement to parliament , describing BNFL 's failure to inform Cunningham of the leak as " a rather extraordinary discourtesy " . |
| 6 | Of course , some may in the early years have argued plausibly that the payments would rid England of the raiders for good , for it need not have been evident in the 990s that the problem would intensify as it did . |
| 7 | Describing conventional education as a ‘ conveyor belt ’ and noting ‘ the dullness of the eldest pupils compared with the brightness and self-sufficiency of the infants ’ , Denys Thompson of the Scrutiny group thought in 1932 that while education was ‘ very busy mass-producing interchangeable little components for the industrial machine ’ the concern of education ‘ should be to turn out ‘ misfits ’ ’ , not spare parts ' . |
| 8 | However , the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo province protested that the proposed constitution would effectively strip Kosovo of the special autonomous status conferred on it ( within the Serbian republic ) in the 1974 Yugoslavian Constitution . |
| 9 | Perhaps Ted told Jean of the walks the four of us took when Eva got tired of working ; and the time Eva 's feet hurt and she hailed a cab — absolute Roman decadence for Dad , Ted and me . |
| 10 | Might we not accuse Sartre of the same ? |
| 11 | The young Southampton prospect did accumulate a 5–2 lead in the second set , but tentative returns enabled the 25 year old Swede to claim five consecutive games , robbing Wilkinson of the Masters singles title he had worked so diligently for . |
| 12 | I told Shama of the years that Thesiger had spent in Iraq with the Marsh Arabs and then in Iran , that now he had a small house in Kenya deep in the country where he could get away from the towns . |
| 13 | When I told Robins of the effort it must have required to transport the heavy materials by hand he just laughed . |
| 14 | The Reverend offered to forgo the proceedings , and Boswell advised Johnson of the ‘ over-delicate scrupulosity of our host ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ We had a laugh , ’ says Moss of the Dolce e Gabbana shoot , citing ‘ fun , money and travel ’ as modelling 's main attractions . |
| 16 | ‘ It took a long time for me to get my Gold Award because some of the tasks were very difficult , ’ says Fiona of the demanding project that included months of community service , braving the elements on an exploratory camping trip and writing a long and detailed historical thesis ! |
| 17 | As the drinks were being distributed , Seb told Jacob of the attitude of the landlord of the Swan Inn . |
| 18 | She felt unclean and unworthy , rather as she hoped that her mother , in her dark moments , must feel about Mr Stacey — and she never told Nora of the incident . |
| 19 | He told Elizabeth of the meal in the dining room , with the butler and maids serving on and made her giggle at his father 's summing up of the Dowager Lady Lassiter . |
| 20 | I have n't seen Leeds of the Day , and it 's always better to hear from the fans on the spot in any case . |
| 21 | Itzhak Rabin of the Labour Party raised on June 12 the issue of who should lead the party in opposition . |
| 22 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 23 | For , by Monday 10 December , on the same day that Birkenhead told Derby of the plot , Baldwin saw the King and told him that he had decided not to resign . |
| 24 | The resource cost of producing BC of the good has fallen from BCHE to BCFE , a saving of EFH . |
| 25 | We could see Jane Russell again at the Empire , or walk up to the Arcadian to see Sanders of the River . |
| 26 | Allan had scratched , annoying the team management by informing ITN of the fact before he informed them . |
| 27 | Campaigners against the project point out that a mixture of economic recession and growing enthusiasm for energy efficiency may deprive Hydro-Quebec of the bulk of its potential revenue from the scheme , in the form of orders from US power supply companies , who are believed to be reconsidering the need to import power from Canada . |
| 28 | Hopkins had told McGrath of the plans for It and for the Scot to edit it . |
| 29 | Dorothy had already told Isobel of the conversation that afternoon , so she was prepared ; but he found it difficult to get round to the real object of the visit . |
| 30 | It was motivated in large part by the desire to rid Japan of the unequal treaties , which remained the arbiter of Japanese diplomatic activity almost to the end of the century . |