Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This only serves to alert me of course , though my brain has already caught on . |
| 2 | What most people think is extraordinary is that after the government and Roosevelt came out with this thing , it would have been a perfectly human reaction of my father 's to say , well the hell with it , I wo n't give it to the nation if they 're going to accuse me of fraud . |
| 3 | The thieves smashed down doors and broke open hardened-steel padlocks to gain entry to the Redoubt Fort , in Harwich , only to discover nothing of value inside . |
| 4 | But a desire to be fair , a wish to be absolutely certain , and an understandable reluctance to accuse someone of perfidy who has been a friend of mine for six difficult years made me pull the telephone back to my mouth . |
| 5 | Trading statements and bid situations continued to provide plenty of work for analysts and recent buoyant sectors like properties , insurances , and stores ran into profit-taking . |
| 6 | Trading statements and bid situations continued to provide plenty of work for analysts and recent buoyant sectors like properties , insurances , and stores ran into profit-taking . |
| 7 | Before the days of household appliances like washing machines and vacuum cleaners , and before motorized transport , people were more likely to obtain plenty of exercise in normal day-to-day activity . |
| 8 | In order to deal with the problems of budgeting for this it is necessary to know something of company financial and cost accounting . |
| 9 | In order to deal with the problems of budgeting for this it is necessary to know something of company financial and cost accounting . |
| 10 | Now he had a farm to run he needed to know something of farm bookkeeping . |
| 11 | And we shall all have to meet him of course . " |
| 12 | Are you prepared to accuse him of insincerity ? |
| 13 | ‘ To accuse him of failure because your own ego can not survive the knowledge that a man does not want you ? ’ |
| 14 | And some go on to accuse him of tunnel-vision , saying they doubt whether he ever really wanted a peaceful settlement in the Gulf ; whether he now has a view of what American policy after the war should be ; and whether his single-minded determination to win the war is blinding him to other dangers . |
| 15 | His style of writing caused some to accuse him of rationalism . |
| 16 | Psychiatrists had been unable to find anything of significance to explain his actions . |
| 17 | the music press is read avidly by A&R departments to find anything of interest . |
| 18 | To prosper , the newspaper needs to attract lots of advertising . |
| 19 | To accuse us of thinking we are the only ones interested in peace is to reiterate mindlessly a routine anti-CND slogan . |
| 20 | Paneth and Peters knew about palladium 's ability to absorb lots of hydrogen and they wondered whether packing so much of it in between the palladium atoms might increase the chance of the hydrogen atoms bumping into one another , thereby fusing and producing helium . |
| 21 | Gritstone is showing a bit of a renaissance these days — there have already been two new E8s this year — and it 's continuing to see plenty of action . |
| 22 | I have around 15 more good years ahead of me , but I fail to see plenty of room at the top for women like me . |
| 23 | The Russians continued to enjoy plenty of possession — but they lacked penetration . |
| 24 | Then he added , with a sudden burst of frankness , ‘ I reckoned the news would seep out anyway in time and cause them to lose plenty of sleep . ’ |
| 25 | Yet within it she 's able to create plenty of space . |
| 26 | Confusing : A sufferer may be highly intelligent , have a responsible job , be very caring and concerned for his or her family and yet still be drawn by this compulsion to use his or her drug of choice and , as a result , progressively to destroy everything of value . |
| 27 | To sell it of course , but erm that was another facet of it . |
| 28 | You 'll be asked to drink lots of water beforehand ; your stomach will then be greases and a hand-held transducer ran over it . |
| 29 | Cylinders were also made in large diameters , with special machines to play them of course . |
| 30 | In seeking revenge , we seek to rid ourselves of pain . |