Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although still used for storage , the mill is slowly deteriorating and largely silent , long since stripped of its fulling stocks , its Boulton and Watt steam engine and water wheels . |
| 2 | Pitts Mill , now sometimes known as Oaklands Farm Mill , has been luckier and has , at least structurally , survived , although long since stripped of its manufacturing machinery . |
| 3 | For some time , the mill stood idle and decaying , but was eventually stripped of its machinery and converted to two cottages . |
| 4 | It is regarded as essential that the client is expressly reminded of his freedom of choice of solicitor . |
| 5 | Feasting her eyes on him as he quickly enclosed his nether limbs , Gina was forcibly reminded of their first meeting . |
| 6 | He scowled and once more she was forcibly reminded of his Viking heritage , the cold , hard power that had fortified the Norsemen as they had bounded from their makeshift camps intent on conquest . |
| 7 | This week , the ageing lothario was horrified when a cloth-capped pensioner pursued him down a street , wreathed in smiles and waving an autograph book , The Rolling Stone coldly ignored him , appalled at being associated with a gummy grandad and perhaps being all too forcibly reminded of his own advancing years . |
| 8 | Liza Tremayne , going about her duties at Southern Command and ever susceptible to atmosphere , was possibly more conscious of this than many of the girls with whom she worked , girls who she well knew did not altogether approve of her present lifestyle . |
| 9 | Despite her ordeal the woman could only think of her boyfriend , but by the time police arrived to free him , he had wriggled free and managed to open the boot from the inside . |
| 10 | Oddly enough , he never gave a thought to the child being born with such difficulty ; he could only think of his wife . |
| 11 | I shall only think of my pleasure in having Father and — and you here , and showing you my house . |
| 12 | On Coricancha , the Inca sun temple , the Spaniards imposed the church of Santo Domingo : yet Coricancha , though long stripped of its golden sheathing , was still Samson — blinded , chained , but with all his dignity intact . |
| 13 | Individuals are neither slaves to their attitudes , nor are they necessarily masters of their own destiny . |
| 14 | He thought : He has acquired the mystique of the story-teller and , glancing at the ring of fire-lit and intent faces , he was suddenly reminded of his first village school , of the children clustered round Miss Douglas at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon for the half hour of story-time , and felt a pang of pain and regret for those lost days of innocence and love . |
| 15 | So far this is normal and to be expected , but if Claire is told often enough how good she is when she feels herself to be bad , or if Henry is constantly reminded of his vicious streak when he is aware of other , ignored qualities in himself , then both Claire and Henry are likely to become confused as to their own self-images . |
| 16 | We have been constantly reminded of our 25th anniversary by the Official Opening Ceremony on Saturday 29th August , the Service of Thanksgiving in the Church of the Holy Rude , the Logie Kirk Commemoration of the University Mace , a prestigious series of public lectures , concerts , exhibitions , parties of all kinds and , yet to come , the Silver Jubilee Graduation Ball in early July . |
| 17 | So , I think , if you are asking me I can only speak of my personal experience . |
| 18 | Since I did n't know Jackie in his racing years , I can only speak of his character as I 've known it since I975 , a period by which he had already become obsessed with driver safety and a real force in improving conditions for drivers . |
| 19 | Human life was not necessarily robbed of its meaning by being incorporated into the natural system . |
| 20 | ( Armstrong , 1978a , b ; Loux , 1976 ; P. F. Strawson , 1979 ) Those philosophers who have been most Platonic or " realistic " about general properties necessarily speak of their instances . |
| 21 | Mouse suddenly thought of his stomach as having a big red circular target on it with HIT THERE printed in the centre . |
| 22 | I doubted it because whatever the efficacy of Dr Gyggle 's treatment and however convincing his explanation of how a lonely and fucked-up boy built up a delusion both to compensate for the lack of a father and punish himself for his own Oedipal crime , I still could n't convince myself that I was entirely rid of my mage . |
| 23 | But nothing was hitherto known of their work . |
| 24 | We should look behind the artificially magnified scope of the devil to discover he is not so deserved of our admiration as once we supposed . |
| 25 | ‘ She not only knew of her big hits , but also about lots of other numbers on her various albums . |
| 26 | If the renowned sciences of the ancient Indian sages consisted of all these extravagant follies , mankind has indeed been deceived in the exalted opinion it has long entertained of their wisdom . |
| 27 | So think of your tax because when you make a will you can something about that tax . |
| 28 | WIDOW Judith Pratley only learned of her husband 's mountain of debts when a bailiff tried to repossess her home 24 hours after his suicide . |
| 29 | In the title story Sara Suleri suggests that , as on legally meatless days people thought constantly of meat , so deprived of her dead , she thinks constantly of them . |
| 30 | In the second case , however , compulsory acquisition at less than market price involves an actual loss since the owner is not only deprived of his property but is also compensated at a price which might be less than he paid for it and would almost certainly be insufficient to purchase a similar parcel of land in the open market . |