Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving Dublin , I decided I ought to see something of County Louth . |
| 2 | As to the visit to Merstham , I had hoped that if he were to come all that way , he ought to see something of the country , as it was then still of an unspoilt rural character and in autumn especially beautiful . |
| 3 | This group 's only sin is their wry self-consciousness which falls smugly short of arrant narcissism ; the fey , running commentary implicit in their song-titles ( ‘ Rent ’ , ‘ Shopping ’ , ‘ Suburbia ’ , ‘ Opportunities [ Let's Make Lots of Money ] ’ ) signifies detachment , and finally alienation From the allure , the lush materiality of pop . |
| 4 | For example , a representation of a law court could tell us something about the role of judges , lawyers , jury , witnesses : representations of the silent system within prisons may convey something of the nature of that practice . |
| 5 | I thought that as I 'd involved you all , to some extent , in the enquiries that were launched yesterday , I ought to inform you of the results of our search for the boy , Gerry Boden … ’ |
| 6 | The Soviets may rob themselves of their own best potential in this way . |
| 7 | Hast thee consulted Miller — the last being new , he may know nothing of . |
| 8 | At present hospitals and community services often use the translation services of a relative who is bilingual , or of a kitchen porter or nurse who may know nothing of mental health problems , or of anyone in the vicinity who happens to speak the language . |
| 9 | One or two of his colleagues may know something of his patch if they have covered for him when he was unavailable , or if they have previously worked it before being transferred elsewhere . |
| 10 | So somebody must think something of you . |
| 11 | JAMES EDE , chief display assistant , East Filton : ‘ We should make something of all the hype around the release of the Jurassic Park film and have dinosaur shaped foods . ’ |
| 12 | In The Cloud of Unknowing he did not present the whole complexity of the Greek mystic 's vision , but dwelt upon his central belief that God is ultimately and essentially incomprehensible to the human mind and that if we want to ‘ know ’ God in this life , we must divest ourselves of all our ideas about the reality that we call ‘ God ’ . |
| 13 | Especially , your Assassin must divest herself of every tiny hidden trick . |
| 14 | The second was the decision of the American Supreme Court that they should divest themselves of monopoly control of the cinema chains which , as Heston said , was in hindsight a death blow which merely served to hasten the financial decline of each and every studio . |
| 15 | Examples are the splitting up of AT&T in the US , referred to above , the more stringent conditions put on the BA/BCal merger by the EC authorities , and the MMC recommendation that the major UK brewers should divest themselves of most of their public houses ( Supply of Beer , 1989 ) . |
| 16 | You should eat plenty of meat and fish while on the diet to ensure you get enough protein , and a vitamin and mineral supplement ( see p 330 ) may be necessary . |
| 17 | As a bachelor it seemed slightly shocking to Rupert that a colleague , even though an anthropologist , should think nothing of abandoning his wife when she was ill . |
| 18 | ‘ But what I really do n't understand is why on earth you should think anyone of a sound mind would actually want to gain entry into your very confusing family ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Edwin must know nothing of this . |
| 20 | It is no doubt all to the good that we should rid ourselves of the delusion that our mortal bodies are inhabited by immortal souls , but , in claiming to be human beings , we are asserting our capacity for exercising moral choice and that implies moral responsibility . |
| 21 | In addition to ornamental plants , you should include plenty of oxygenators . |
| 22 | In order to believe in the Devil we must rid ourselves of unhelpful images of him ( though we do not need to wax philosophical about him as I did for the doubting lady ! ) . |
| 23 | First of all we must rid ourselves of the belief that punishment is wrong if it causes pain or inconvenience and does not have the full interest of the criminal at heart . |
| 24 | And there 's a need for external information : the board should know which of its competitors have embarked on similar strategies , and how they are progressing . |
| 25 | Pearn and I were very concerned to ensure that the troops who would liberate Burma should know something of the country and its people , for the army that fought the retreat in 1942 had had little time to learn any of the background . |
| 26 | ‘ Why , I wonder , do you suppose that I should know anything of your sister 's abductor ? ’ |
| 27 | If he is to rescue his presidency , he must choose which of those expectations he wants to meet |
| 28 | These deliberate modernities should clear him of any charge of merely insulated ‘ ivory tower ’ escapism . |
| 29 | He loves it , and it would be a hard critic who suggested that he should deprive himself of , to him , the most enjoyable bit of his job . |
| 30 | West Indies , for their part , are simply playing their own game and , since it has made them the most powerful team in the world , can not see why they should deprive themselves of their trump cards just because other countries can not produce trump cards of their own . |