Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh shi , oh well just go and then you wo n't have to pay , you would n't have the bloody worry of it would you ? |
| 2 | the total opposite of them . |
| 3 | The A N C was locked in a crucial national executive meeting to discuss the issues of township violence and the possible arming of it 's members in the strife-torn zones . |
| 4 | He closed his eyes against the unbelievable horror of it all . |
| 5 | But despite the handicap Essex made a terrific fight of it and only went down off the penultimate ball . |
| 6 | The essential point is that the introduction prepares for what is to come , and is a unified part of it . |
| 7 | We shall come across specific forms of them later . |
| 8 | I mean that 's not the right description of it but er anyway . |
| 9 | Obstinately , she remained standing , looking at him and trying to shut down the traitorously receptive part of her that was assimilating the way his formal evening attire enhanced his devastating masculinity . |
| 10 | We have no access to ‘ things in themselves ’ apart from our experience of them ; a ‘ thing in itself ( Ding an sich ) is in fact utterly inconceivable to us , for any possible conception that we can form of anything at all will necessarily draw upon some real or imagined experience of it . |
| 11 | Or perhaps it was just the usual look of her rather weird eyes . |
| 12 | Not give me a an abstract technical description of it |
| 13 | Thus they are a fraction of the ruling class in the sense both that they belong integrally to it , directly serving the dominant social order , and that they are a coherent division of it , defined by the values of a specific higher education : the possession of a general , rather than a merely national and class-bound , culture ; and the practice of specific intellectual and professional skills . |
| 14 | After the next kick off , Arse reckon they 'll try that again , only this time Lukic jumps at the ball on the edge of his area , makes a nerve-jangling hoke of it and nearly lets it get to an Arse player before scrabbling it away . |
| 15 | It is a combination that I have used in the past but not for a long time , although blue and white stripes in fabrics are a perennial favourite of mine . |
| 16 | Up and down , up and down , went that unwearying right foot of hers . |
| 17 | I , I would normally say to you now , right what 's your objectives for the two days , but to be honest if we do that , er , I do n't think it helps very much , erm , but if anybody wants to make any comments about any specific part of it , er , then I 'll try and just talk you through it . |
| 18 | When it first flows from a wound it is runny but the more liquid part of it , turpentine , quickly evaporates leaving a sticky lump which seals the wound very effectively . |
| 19 | Caught it … but did n't catch the right part of it … |
| 20 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 21 | She lathered herself languidly beneath the refreshing jets of water , letting the spray caress every hot , sticky part of her with a glorious wave of sensual awareness . |
| 22 | The people I knew had a terrific dread of it , and they very rightly dreaded it . |
| 23 | Watching her sleep , however , is not the most stimulating experience I 've had of late , although I realise that certain New York film-makers would have shot ten solid reels of it and begged for more . |
| 24 | I suspect Age Concern do n't require that but it 's there , and they 're the sole user of it at the moment . |
| 25 | The Air Force will write to his mother if there 's anything to tell , and the awful part of it is that I do n't know where she lives . |
| 26 | ‘ The awful part of it is , I still have strong , unresolved feelings for him . |
| 27 | Now we come to the ironical side of it all . |
| 28 | But he never sees the awful side of her . |
| 29 | Alexander Vass simply looked straight through her with those penetrating coal-black eyes of his . |
| 30 | ‘ Ah , but it ca n't be very evident or I would n't have had to spend an hour and half in the X-ray Department and they would n't have had to take a Complete album of me . ’ |