Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a compensation scheme and the laibon wishes me to drive one of his sons fifty miles to a small town to collect the papers . |
| 2 | Perhaps you might even allow me to borrow one of your people as a guide around the city . |
| 3 | An dey fear both of dem , |
| 4 | Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot . |
| 5 | Charlie , now a light middleweight , could n't wait to get in the ring while Tommy somehow managed to keep himself out of the firing line , although both of them became aware of Captain Trentham 's menacing presence as his swagger stick continually struck the side of his leg . |
| 6 | The fire died down and the embers became grey ashes , the forest around them became full of noises as the creatures of the night resumed possession of it , but Marian , Allen and Hugh slept on until well after dawn . |
| 7 | " I make the tree stand up , if you let me make some of them little colour things . " |
| 8 | The terms of desire , fantasy and the unconscious as they have functioned for film theory seem to me to lose much of their explanatory power at the level of subjectivity and identification , and it may be , as Gillian Skirrow has suggested for video games , that television can be more adequately thought through a theory of object relations . |
| 9 | His financial controller Roger Richardson came up with a system of false accounting , which enabled them to borrow millions of pounds over a three year period and keep the company going . |
| 10 | She had occasional epileptic fits after the first , and they so frightened Rose and her family that everyone became over-protective of her . |
| 11 | You would n't catch me using one of them . |
| 12 | Somebody took me to see one of their pubs in Liverpool it was wonderful ! |
| 13 | You know I , I , I mean I have n't written this one and it makes it quite difficult for me to see some of the questions , but I actually write I think that 's the most important thing in training is asking questions er and I 'll perhaps bring down some examples to show you . |
| 14 | One author cited his own thesis seven times , out of a total of 10 citations , and two authors cited themselves six times — one of whom provided all of his total citation count . |
| 15 | But , not everyone has thousands of pounds to spend on a studio set up and Freeman has addressed this point and also detailed the necessary design and items for the temporary home studio and has also included sections on portable studios . |
| 16 | For example , all that is physically necessary as regards food is to make sure that everyone has enough of the right sort . |
| 17 | By 1917 the British and the Russians between them occupied most of Iran . |
| 18 | They were both Londoners so this cheered me up no end , and we were soon making our way to the Mess for supper and then up to the office for me to meet some of the others . |
| 19 | He says he wants me to meet some of his friends . |
| 20 | erm let me consider first of all the minor claim , and here I think it 's only fair to tell you that I 'm not a palaeotologist . |
| 21 | Now let me consider some of the situations which lead to poor welfare ; these have a variety of different effects on animals and I will go over them rapidly . |
| 22 | The illness did , however , convince me to accept another of the points Mrs Hill had made and I decided to apply for social security money . |
| 23 | Traditional agency theory then suggests that the more risk-averse be given contracts which force them to bear less of the risk involved in the venture . |
| 24 | An illuminated indicator told them to stand clear of the doors and then they closed . |
| 25 | My father had often urged me to try some of his marijuana , but I had never accepted , just as I had refused even to look at the cocaine that he kept in his dressing room . |
| 26 | And some of them want most of the money to go to Eastern Europe . |
| 27 | As the hon. Gentleman said , he let me know some of his particular areas of interest in advance . |
| 28 | I became one of the enthusiastic mob ( mostly female ) who hung over the balcony rail at the end of performances of Swan Lake and Coppelia , yelling for Margot and Bobby ( Fonteyn and Helpmann ) , as if we knew them personally . |
| 29 | I became one of about 30 examiners out on the road , either on my own or with one colleague , and in my two year stint conducted 10 separate enquiries ( often involving more than one company ) . |
| 30 | In December 1979 I became one of two lesbians and sixty-five gay men providing a twenty-four-hours-a-day information service and helpline for the gay community . |