Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were treated well and they asked nothing more of life . |
| 2 | Going then to the Uc Serefeli mosque , Fahreddin Acemi had the people summoned , ascended the and " exposed [ the Hurufis ' ] vain beliefs , adjudged them guilty of unbelief and heresy , and gave judgment that the killing of them was incumbent and that such as aided in the slaying of them would be greatly rewarded " . |
| 3 | Haldane and Hogben 's Marxism made them critical of pedigree studies because it taught them that biological determinism should be supplemented by economic determinism . |
| 4 | However that did n't make them guilty of murder . |
| 5 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 6 | It made me wary of Throgmorton — but it does n't make me a murderer nine years later . ’ |
| 7 | Birkeland commented that it was not useful to blame poor populations for exploiting the few resources that they had , when fishing or mining reefs could earn them millions of dollars . |
| 8 | Or send them one of Jaws ! |
| 9 | I want nothing more of life . |
| 10 | Mr Mellor said : ‘ We found ourselves devoid of water and unable to bath or do anything . ’ |
| 11 | Maeve Binchy 's gift for drawing readers into the lives of people from small communities , and for describing the evolution of friendships , have won her millions of readers . |
| 12 | Shuddering itself full of heat , seeming to enlarge slowly |
| 13 | ‘ Whatever it is , it seems to please you , ’ Lucy said , snatching the message pad from Doreen 's hand , then found herself full of misgivings as she read the information directed to herself . |
| 14 | Blindly she hurried on , tearing herself free of branches that attempted to hold her back . |
| 15 | Opponents of Meciar in Public Against Violence ( PAV , the senior partner in the ruling coalition ) , which he had effectively split in March by forming a separate minority faction [ see p. 38106 ] , had allied with the CDM in arranging a parliamentary investigation into Meciar 's recent conduct , which found him guilty of incompetence , lying , and abusing his access to former secret police files . |
| 16 | In October a jury at Winchester Crown Court found him guilty of theft , perjury and fraudulent trading . |
| 17 | Following repeated breaches of the orders the judge , in the contemnor 's presence , found him guilty of contempt of court and committed him to prison for eight months . |
| 18 | Jamie ran up a quadruple-bogey 8 of which cost him thousands of pounds . |
| 19 | The developer of the site , Ideal Homes Holdings , has undertaken to reserve the site and provide it free of charge to the school trustees in addition to a one-off payment of up to £150,000 . |
| 20 | Both were supposed to supervise appointments inside their ministry to exclude anyone capable of disloyalty to their brother . |
| 21 | Whatever it is , they say it hundreds of times an hour with endless patience and cheerfulness . |
| 22 | take something along there and they will value it free of charge providing you 've got a copy of the Express ! |
| 23 | When the book was nearing publication , a scientist who was sent an advance copy to review for Nature magazine was appalled to find it full of errors , with misplaced and erroneously labeled photographs and diagrams . |
| 24 | Johnson found it full of weeds ; today it is tailored and fitted . |
| 25 | Her eyes lit up when she opened it and found it full of farthings . |
| 26 | The pool that had been so jarringly empty when I took my premeditated dive into it with Terry , I fell into with Toby and found it full of champagne . |
| 27 | Another point which should not be overlooked is that Committee papers are read by a good many Ministers who do not attend the meetings , and these papers are often the only means they have of keeping themselves abreast of developments in policy . |
| 28 | The bare infinitive is used to produce a very different effect from that of the to infinitive in exclamations , as can be seen in ( 3 ) above and in : ( 30 ) I say anything disrespectful of Dr Keen ? |
| 29 | Did n't they think her capable of adult emotions , of real suffering , genuine worry ? |
| 30 | If Raine Spencer 's iron will and unswerving competence made her intolerant of others less efficient — in the words of one neighbour , the kind of woman who ‘ rubs up worthy souls the wrong way ’ — does she deserve the epitaph of the woman who alienated the children , sold the family silver , was short with servants and decorated Althorp in poor taste ? |