Example sentences of "[adj] of [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Island gossip said the President was keeping clear of electioneering from fear that the rumours spread about his involvement with the Colombian cocaine trade would harm his party 's performance at the polls . |
| 2 | Those who rebled within the first five days were then treated by further sclerotherapy and were randomised if and when they were free of bleeding for this period of time . |
| 3 | At this stage , the Shah himself had little idea what was being planned , Indeed , he even suspected the British of conspiring with Mossadeq against him . |
| 4 | So a word of warning : be careful of relying on a person too far away from yourself . |
| 5 | At the time of the Agadir crisis , he had declared bombastically that it was ‘ high time this insolent clique in Paris should be made once more to feel what a Pomeranian Grenadier can do ’ He edited a book for children , entitled ‘ Germany in Arms ’ , glorifying war , and was fond of speaking to German youth about the forthcoming ‘ happy — cheerful war ’ whatever that meant . |
| 6 | There was a certain story my father was fond of repeating over the years . |
| 7 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 8 | They were fond of writing on their vases and several have left us their names , including the man who seems to have led the movement , Euphronios , and his great younger rival Euthymides . |
| 9 | I never thought I would become one of those people William is so fond of writing about in that filthy newspaper of his . ’ |
| 10 | He once wrote : ‘ I am not fond of writing about myself and only to a less degree about my work . ’ |
| 11 | Writers about midlife are fond of referring to the empty nest syndrome , much to the annoyance of feminists , who deplore the notion that women need children to bolster their sense of self-worth . |
| 12 | Fond of perching on dead tree or post in water . |
| 13 | You are fond of playing with sarcasm . |
| 14 | As with TA , unless you are fond of playing with computer programmes ask someone more expert to set up CC for you . |
| 15 | Edmund Bartell , who describes the realities in his Picturesque Improvements of 1804 , is fond of quoting from Thompson and Cowper , in order to illustrate the discrepancy between the actuality and their poetic view of rural life . |
| 16 | You will produce any memoranda or books held by him and , above all , the manuscript he was so fond of studying with its doggerel verses which drew him and others into the blackest treason . ’ |
| 17 | The great Russian theoretical physicist Lev Davidovitch Landau was fond of saying about [ 4 ] " There is obviously no such limitation — I can measure the energy and look at my watch ; then I know both energy and time ! " |
| 18 | It was small but perfectly formed , as Dudley Moore is fond of saying of himself . |
| 19 | I would suggest ‘ He was a great realist ’ or perhaps ‘ He was never afraid of looking like a prat ’ . |
| 20 | You must not be afraid of thinking on your feet and adding good ideas that occur to you as you speak . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm afraid of slipping in the dark and cracking my head on the edge of the bunker , ’ I had said . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's not that I 'm afraid of living in a strange place , Ruth . |
| 23 | Pacepa says that Ceauşescu was afraid of poisoning after the CIA 's attempt to murder Fidel Castro by impregnating his clothes with potions to make his beard fall out , and so he ordered the Securitate department which provided all his personal needs free of charge to arrange for the manufacture of a new set of clothes for every day of his life . |
| 24 | After the first morning he did n't go back , he was afraid of dropping in his own estimation . |
| 25 | She ran across the airport like a newly born antelope unsteady on its legs , and stood with elbows bent and legs apart as though afraid of toppling through her fantasies into womanhood . |
| 26 | But it is absurd to be unduly afraid of borrowing by the state . |
| 27 | But why should she be afraid of hearing about her own mother ? |
| 28 | 'Are you afraid of going into the glory of our Lord Hapexamendios ? ’ |
| 29 | You 're afraid of doing this and afraid of going into this and afraid of going into that thinking it 's not yours . |
| 30 | You 're afraid of doing this and afraid of going into this and afraid of going into that thinking it 's not yours . |