Example sentences of "[verb] of [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the BBC , the only chance Bunter has of getting on television again would be to update Greyfriars into something like a public school version of Grange Hill . |
| 2 | The greater the complexity of systems , the more danger of something going wrong , and the less chance individual will has of operating on the systems for good . |
| 3 | The more opportunities he/she has of looking at the illustrations and reading the captions with you , the more he/she will come to recognise the words . |
| 4 | Making a will is the surest way anyone has of providing for others after their death . |
| 5 | This , they say , is the only chance the rhino has of surviving in the wild |
| 6 | She means Trouble , with a capital T. Trouble with Lapointe , with other men , with bitchy women , with her moods , her stammer , her embarrassing conversation , her tears , and that awful habit she has of staring at people … . |
| 7 | He reads the Koran , he attends daily prayers , and occasionally , when there is a gap in the conversation , he babbles of going to Mecca . |
| 8 | Ianthe went over to the window and flung open the shutters and it occurred to Penelope that she was probably one of those people who did n't approve of smoking in bedrooms . |
| 9 | Do n't think of shouting to 8 million . |
| 10 | She stooped again , waggling her backside , which was the only way she could think of moving from her hips . |
| 11 | Only then could they think of moving against him . |
| 12 | She said that had been his double and he 'd got away scot-free to come to live in the last country in the world where people would think of looking for him . |
| 13 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
| 14 | She prayed they would not think of looking under the bed . |
| 15 | Potential new readers of Spare Rib would not think of looking under that section for a women 's magazine , and I assumed it was a mistake on the part of overworked staff . |
| 16 | I thought that Doone might not think of looking in Perkin 's workroom for a match to the arrow 's wood . |
| 17 | I 'm going to give you , as a table one of the features of the plan , I 'm going to ask you as a group , but only one of you needs to write it , to write every single thing you can think of relating to that set feature . |
| 18 | ‘ And I did think of driving to Karlovy Vary to … ’ |
| 19 | Few managers would think of embarking on such a course if they faced competition from B R itself , that 's why the Government originally barred B R from bidding . |
| 20 | But if you think this is bloody " — and he laughed his hacking tubercular laugh " our ancestors would n't think of going to sea in a new prahu which had n't first been rolled into the water over the living bodies of seven women in their first pregnancy ! |
| 21 | Did you think of going to anybody like that before you decided to do it yourself |
| 22 | Ca n't think of going on holiday |
| 23 | ‘ Hey , Phil , ’ he called , ‘ did you ever think of dying at all ? |
| 24 | ‘ Church people were all too often narrow-minded , censorious , judgemental , intolerant , conventional … so the people for whom the world was too harsh would never think of turning to the Church … |
| 25 | Ethel knew a lot more about what the master would and would not think of doing to a young woman than Mr Eames did . |
| 26 | ‘ And I do n't suppose you 'd think of dipping into your patrimony to fund something similar for Sunil ? ’ |
| 27 | What do you think of having in here artexed or airtexed or whatever it 's called , artex . |
| 28 | I scooped them up before he could think of asking for a receipt and zippered them into a jacket pocket . |
| 29 | Justifying the railway deficit in 1980 , for example , the chairman maintained that ‘ no one would think of talking of the deficit of the armed forces or of the fact that our state educational establishments show a deficit … ’ |
| 30 | LET's experience of working with ‘ name ’ architects has not been very fruitful . |