Example sentences of "[noun] of [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were only thinking of you the other week . |
| 2 | We went there with a new cloth on the drum , as near as could be ; and when we come away there was n't a piece of it no bigger than your hand . |
| 3 | In the combats on either side of her the outer figure falls back and another bends swiftly forward to support him . |
| 4 | Beneath the neural groove runs the notochord ( Figure 1e ) and on either side of it the paraxial mesoderm . |
| 5 | In course of it a young woman came up to her . |
| 6 | And was found dead at the base of it the next morning ? ’ |
| 7 | Since the publication of his The Seven Lively Arts in the 1920s Seldes had been a linchpin of New York 's arts scene . |
| 8 | In the second issue of It the front page , and most of the second , had been dominated by excerpts from Pound 's war-time broadcasts from fascist Italy to the allies . |
| 9 | Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . " |
| 10 | The manager had been held by the Portuguese , but when Bill Baldwin took charge of him the local population , including the Chinese , knew that the Australians intended to continue the war preferring to he the hunters rather than the hunted . |
| 11 | Gently , making fun of me a little bit , bringing me back to earth . |
| 12 | Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs . |
| 13 | I suppose that makes the rest of us a little bonkers . |
| 14 | I bet i , I mean I bet he 's the sort of cyclist and car driver that gives the rest of us a fucking bad name ! |
| 15 | I mean there were four or five knocking on door of er a friend of mine the other day , who said y They were they were under the age of ten . |
| 16 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , surely you did n't fall for all that nonsense of his the other night ? |
| 17 | He must have left Taipei again later that night or early the following morning , because there was no sign of him the next day . |
| 18 | Suffolk police only discovered the court martial had taken place when officers read details of it a local newspaper . |
| 19 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 20 | Today , as the Church strives to carry out her perennial mission of proclaiming the Word of she the immense challenge of evangelizing this new culture and expressing the unchanging truth of the Gospel in its language . |
| 21 | During the evening she caught sight of him a few times , always dancing , holding his partners very close , and managing to avoid her eyes . |
| 22 | To a number of us the crucial omission was any help for industry , which was going through an appalling time . |
| 23 | For a moment he knelt beside the boy , looking down at him ; again , as in the dream — the reality of it no clearer than the vision he had had . |
| 24 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
| 25 | At the back was a long garden , at the end of it a little orchard , some six or seven overgrown apple and pear trees . |
| 26 | When you reach the end of it the second time , you start driving down it again and now you can see some things which seem to have changed considerably while others seem exactly the same . |
| 27 | Getting through the day , with her bed at the end of it the only goal , absorbed all her energies . |
| 28 | First , where the rehearing was by the same body or some more complete form of it the general rule was that defects at the original hearing could be cured . |
| 29 | Because that way it stays on if you do it the other way it 'll drop off it 's as simple as that , okay , cover the pad and as you spiral up the arm all you need to do is to cover about two thirds of what you 've just done before , just like a spiral , you find the bandages , the more you use those roller bandages of yours the worse they get to control because they lose their , you know , nice and stretchiness , so you just do , cover up the pad at the top , tie always on the top of the arm never underneath here . |
| 30 | ( If my private test convinces me that I do not want what you think I want , I assume error in your reading of me the public tests , which I must expose or leave you unanswered . ) |