Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ways such as these , late Roman bishops worked slowly , by piecemeal additions and elaborations of regularly recurrent observances , to define a new sacred time in which the Christian life was to be wholly caught up , until the sacred time of the old pagan past was slowly forgotten , or emptied of its charge of religiosity . |
| 2 | The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ . |
| 3 | Some described a future Anne unmarried and unhappy , for instance , or told of her helping and subsequently marrying the second-ranked , male student . |
| 4 | Anyone offered cheap tyres or know of their whereabouts are asked to contact the detectives at Dunganon 52525 . |
| 5 | One occasionally has a glimpse of Green 's neighbours after he has been with them , or heard of their deaths , when he liked to write their obituaries . |
| 6 | Do n't spoil the look or feel of your bridal garment with badly fitting underwear . |
| 7 | She would like to hear from mothers about experiences , such as predicting their babies needs or knowing of their babies feelings without being present . |
| 8 | Tiger moths can also take their defence strategy a stage further , screaming out in ultrasound , which may jam the bats ' sonar or warn of their foul taste . |
| 9 | She did n't touch him , no grip round his waist or leaning of her body into his . |
| 10 | He was only sensation now , and she its supplier , his body enslaved by bliss , unable to remember its making or conceive of its undoing . |
| 11 | It was not the administrative aspect , outlined in Brooksbank , which was in need of attention as much as the daily process of feeding change into a school through the conversion , retraining or updating of its teachers ' skills and through the introduction of both new materials and new perspectives in the build-up of subject knowledge and human skills . |
| 12 | He is appealing for anyone who saw the caravan or knows of its whereabouts to contact him . |
| 13 | ‘ Or jumped of her own accord . ’ |
| 14 | Cowley allowed that slight grimace of disgust to touch his face that told of his total contempt for this particular villain . |
| 15 | FOUR car salesmen are claiming sexual discrimination after losing their jobs in a takeover by a company that boasted of its success in using saleswomen . |
| 16 | Like Jakobson , he believes that literary language can be analyzed objectively and exactly , though rather than speaking of its ‘ poetic ’ function , he opts for the term ‘ stylistic ’ function instead . |
| 17 | Reply : Five days later came the Hatter 's reply , ‘ I neither approve nor disapprove of your using my name and therefore do not object . |
| 18 | Therefore , only so long as a woman is in labour shall he give up Israel ; and then those that survive of his race shall rejoin their brethren . |
| 19 | The Thun-Hohensteins had still to overcome a German bureaucratic hurdle : the customs officials could hardy believe that a German-Bohemian family driven out of Bohemia could want to give back to Decin a valuable painting which was all that remained of their former wealth . |
| 20 | Humiliating him in that little paddock of privacy just outside the back of the house where he would try so hard to keep all that remained of his dignity and self-esteem . |
| 21 | At the Hulsta Mill , near Stockholm , thousands of trees are brought in and stripped of their bark every day . |
| 22 | The Iraqi military leaders were arriving out of sight of cameras , under allied escort , and stripped of their weapons . |
| 23 | He knew her every move and she had seen and heard of his like since childhood . |
| 24 | At that point the creditor could still refuse to have the man released from prison and insist of his being kept there , so long as he paid him a groat a day . |
| 25 | The metaphysician uses the word ‘ substance ’ of the ‘ thing itself ’ , and thinks of its various properties as attached to it in much the same way that garments become attached to a clothes horse . |
| 26 | SO CLOSE , YET SO FAR : Kerry cuddles Panos and thinks of her Ben |
| 27 | And thinks of her daughters |
| 28 | Alternatively save a slot and sell of your old serial/parallel card with your old hard dive . |
| 29 | And now , aired and emptied of its clutter , with fresh sheets on the bed and a bowl of roses on the table by the window , the room awaited Iskandara . |
| 30 | She believed , and with what a lightening and easing of her poor heart , that now could begin the real , the responsible , discussion she loved so much to have with Jasper . |