Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in February 1726 Montrose instructed his commissioner in Scotland to organise his friends to support the plan of a reduction in emoluments for the collector , believing that this would discourage the new candidates and ensure Kirkton 's re-election , for the duke was determined ‘ to stand by him upon the above terms , I mean of a smaller sellary for the future ’ . |
| 2 | But if I speak of a stone that turneth all to gold , or a treasure hidden in the menstruum of whores , then the imagination is set to work . |
| 3 | It was therefore with a quickening of the blood that I read of a builder in Birmingham who has torn down his house in order to erect something bigger , and inadvertently left his neighbour 's previously attached semi teetering sideways . |
| 4 | From an old book of local walks I read of a route up the Remarkables , the jagged range of peaks which overshadow Queenstown across the lake , and which rise to nearly 8,000 feet . |
| 5 | I find it tragic when I hear of a couple where one knows the other is dying , but neither can bear to talk about it . |
| 6 | But I I would n't er if I hear of a girl getting pregnant er you know now now it 's a very common thing I know , but sometimes I feel really sorry for the girls because it 's tying yourself fifteen , sixteen tying yourself down to children . |
| 7 | It tears my heart out whenever I hear of a mining tragedy and because I am not there to help or even to sympathise , something inside me feels the need to shout to all people , southerners especially who have never had fathers , husbands , sons to worry about when each day they are swallowed into the apron of the earth . |
| 8 | I know of a couple who would suit , and who would live in the house with the children while you yourself were exercising — ’ he smiled , showing false teeth — ‘ your considerable talents on the stage . ’ |
| 9 | I know of a least two other examples which exceed 10½ inches . |
| 10 | ‘ I would n't like to say that there is not such a thing as black magic but I know of a coincidence , or something that happened regularly . |
| 11 | I know of a lovely teacher who told her boys and girls in school about God 's plan for the animals and they had a mother bunny in her cage right in the schoolroom . |
| 12 | I know of a fellow of over sixty who took out a policy . |
| 13 | ‘ I know of a short lease up for sale , just off Soho Square , ’ Brassard interrupted . |
| 14 | ‘ I know of a drug which is a bloody good cure for a cold but it 's on the banned list because it 's supposed to act as a boost . |
| 15 | I know of a school not far from this place where there are many highly deprived children , but they work well . |
| 16 | I know of a very nice hotel in Seabourne where we can enjoy a fabulous meal and afterwards take a romantic stroll by the sea in the moonlight . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But I know of a way . ’ |
| 18 | I know of a young female who had to show a leading hand a tampon out of her pocket , to prove that she needed a toilet . |
| 19 | I know of a manager who seems to get great pleasure by bullying females and male w and male workers . |
| 20 | I know of a female member of this union who was sexually abused by her male colleagues , who I might add , are members of the G M B. |
| 21 | Harald died three months later , I believe of a broken heart . |
| 22 | We all know how the week runs away with official interviews and calls , and how difficult it is to remember all the people with whom you ought to keep in touch , but when I think of the number of things which people of different types , like Lady Londonderry and Lady St Helier and others , have got settled by letting people meet at the dinner table , I despair of a man who never sees even those who have been longest in office on any occasion . |
| 23 | Today I walk in the rain of this December afternoon , and I think of a mountain in Ceylon , Sinhala Kanda , the Mountain of Butterflies . |
| 24 | Ultimately the most memorable lines in this volume must be those penned by Bonnard to Matisse in January 1940 : ‘ When I think of you , I think of a mind cleansed of every old aesthetic convention , and it is that alone that permits a direct view of nature , the greatest joy that can befall a painter . |
| 25 | I think of a lady who , now seventy , has attended her parish church in Edinburgh regularly year by year for forty years . |
| 26 | a ) I think of a number m and double it . |
| 27 | Their teacher had played a ‘ think of a number ’ game with them , using starters like : ‘ I think of a number . |
| 28 | ‘ If you understand me so well you 'll know what I think of a man 's opinions . ’ |
| 29 | I think of a time , not long after I met Crilly , in bed together , bound by tight covers . |
| 30 | Proust is also exceptionally aware I think of a , of the , the , the complex nature of reality , a reality built up in a number of layers , so that his sentences are made even longer than might otherwise have been the case , by the introduction of successive subordinate clauses , in which he seeks to qualify as precisely as possible what he is saying . |