Example sentences of "[pron] of [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I of course re I was only seven years old , so really I only , I only saw the , the hearse go by with the mourners . |
| 2 | But United manager Dave Bassett said : ‘ It 's against my principles to pay money for someone of Chris 's age . ’ |
| 3 | It was cruel , of course , to bring someone of Estabrook 's age out on a cold day , and make him climb a hill , but Gentle knew from experience you took whatever satisfactions you could along the way . |
| 4 | For someone of Nizan 's background , not being a loser in the educational system of the French Third Republic necessitated the annihilation of his own class origins . |
| 5 | There remains , and probably will always remain , an area of ambiguity , which itself is disturbing in someone of Anselm 's normal lucidity and precision . |
| 6 | Harold MacMillan , Prime Minister , might still be saying to the electorate that they had never had it so good — which was true in terms of the change-round from post-war reconstruction , wartime destruction , and the days of depression ; but to someone of Leonard 's background , from Canada , the place was a bore . |
| 7 | To the right of the back door , she found what she had hoped for , a Victorian window with a pane broken in the top light , leaving the catch within easy reach of someone of Theodora 's height . |
| 8 | It would be insulting to someone of Walker 's stature to pretend otherwise . |
| 9 | Although predating the RRL initiative by several years — and , indeed the emergence of GIS as a major research area — we should remind ourselves of Openshaw 's work on appraising nuclear reactor sites . |
| 10 | Joshua Morris had told them of Felicity 's impending arrival , and-ordered a light supper at seven to be eaten in their room . |
| 11 | He informed them of Visconti 's departure and the need for a replacement bass guitarist , and they returned with a friend who played bass called Trevor Bolder . |
| 12 | Antony cleverly exploited this principle when he told them of Caesar 's will . |
| 13 | Stephen called all the heads of departments to a meeting the following morning , informing them of Michael 's departure and the appointment of James Morris as acting general manager . |
| 14 | Yet the tone of her telephone call to Swans ' Meadow had implied she knew nothing of Samantha 's abduction — or of what her kidnappers had demanded in return for her release . |
| 15 | I knew nothing of Quigley 's sexual life , but it was entirely possible that Marjorie and Emily were not enough for him . |
| 16 | He was standing here on the other side of the door , knowing nothing of Isabel 's plans . |
| 17 | Bede has much to say about Sigeberht 's Christian patronage within his kingdom ( HE 111 , 18 ) but nothing of Ecgric 's , and the probability is that Ecgric was and remained a pagan . |
| 18 | To say nothing of Karen 's Merseyside vowels and over-eager laugh . |
| 19 | But he would have nothing of Jim 's gloom . |
| 20 | A statement at the funeral yesterday read : ‘ We know nothing of Ian 's business dealings . |
| 21 | But the caribou knew nothing of man 's activities and following the ancient trail they found their way barred . |
| 22 | Josie knew nothing of Christine 's death . |
| 23 | After an updated Dick Whittington in Working Girl and a thinly disguised Cinderella in Pretty Woman , to say nothing of Disney 's The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast , we have Deceived ( 15 ) , a psychological thriller which casts Goldie Hawn — a shade improbably — as Little Red Riding Hood . |
| 24 | The ads smugly mentioned nothing of Koons ' show , listing only the names of his three galleries . |
| 25 | For a period of two years from the summer of 1179 to the summer of 1181 we know nothing of Richard 's movements . |
| 26 | But critics of the twenties , knowing nothing of Pound 's part in the poem , and ignorant also of Eliot 's private sufferings through his wretched first marriage , saw no need to go so far around , to support their conviction or assumption that The Waste Land was a poem with a message . |
| 27 | We know almost nothing of Anselm 's activity during this period except that he consecrated two Irish and two English bishops . |
| 28 | If you tell me of Sarah 's or Rachel 's or Rebecca 's nursing their children I can answer that the one drew water at a well for her father 's flocks , another baked cakes on a hearth , and another dressed savoury meat for her husband . |
| 29 | I thought about that scent ; there was something about it , something extra besides the smell that reminded me of Marcus 's bathroom . |
| 30 | The sharp-shouldered chairs in this joint , which reminded me of Selina 's torso and its erect triangularity , seemed specifically designed to give clients with sore backs a really rough ride . |