Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The question is , what do we do about it ? ’ asked Reed of the Treasury . |
| 2 | In what appears to have been a carefully stage-managed cry of unanimity , it was agreed that Edward should never rule over them again , and the Bishop of Hereford took a delegation which was headed by William Trussell to Renilworth to inform Edward of the assembly 's decision . |
| 3 | MacLean later took the unusual step of amending his original statement to parliament , describing BNFL 's failure to inform Cunningham of the leak as " a rather extraordinary discourtesy " . |
| 4 | Of course , some may in the early years have argued plausibly that the payments would rid England of the raiders for good , for it need not have been evident in the 990s that the problem would intensify as it did . |
| 5 | Describing conventional education as a ‘ conveyor belt ’ and noting ‘ the dullness of the eldest pupils compared with the brightness and self-sufficiency of the infants ’ , Denys Thompson of the Scrutiny group thought in 1932 that while education was ‘ very busy mass-producing interchangeable little components for the industrial machine ’ the concern of education ‘ should be to turn out ‘ misfits ’ ’ , not spare parts ' . |
| 6 | Perhaps Ted told Jean of the walks the four of us took when Eva got tired of working ; and the time Eva 's feet hurt and she hailed a cab — absolute Roman decadence for Dad , Ted and me . |
| 7 | The young Southampton prospect did accumulate a 5–2 lead in the second set , but tentative returns enabled the 25 year old Swede to claim five consecutive games , robbing Wilkinson of the Masters singles title he had worked so diligently for . |
| 8 | I told Shama of the years that Thesiger had spent in Iraq with the Marsh Arabs and then in Iran , that now he had a small house in Kenya deep in the country where he could get away from the towns . |
| 9 | When I told Robins of the effort it must have required to transport the heavy materials by hand he just laughed . |
| 10 | ‘ We had a laugh , ’ says Moss of the Dolce e Gabbana shoot , citing ‘ fun , money and travel ’ as modelling 's main attractions . |
| 11 | As the drinks were being distributed , Seb told Jacob of the attitude of the landlord of the Swan Inn . |
| 12 | She felt unclean and unworthy , rather as she hoped that her mother , in her dark moments , must feel about Mr Stacey — and she never told Nora of the incident . |
| 13 | He told Elizabeth of the meal in the dining room , with the butler and maids serving on and made her giggle at his father 's summing up of the Dowager Lady Lassiter . |
| 14 | I have n't seen Leeds of the Day , and it 's always better to hear from the fans on the spot in any case . |
| 15 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 16 | For , by Monday 10 December , on the same day that Birkenhead told Derby of the plot , Baldwin saw the King and told him that he had decided not to resign . |
| 17 | We could see Jane Russell again at the Empire , or walk up to the Arcadian to see Sanders of the River . |
| 18 | Allan had scratched , annoying the team management by informing ITN of the fact before he informed them . |
| 19 | Campaigners against the project point out that a mixture of economic recession and growing enthusiasm for energy efficiency may deprive Hydro-Quebec of the bulk of its potential revenue from the scheme , in the form of orders from US power supply companies , who are believed to be reconsidering the need to import power from Canada . |
| 20 | Hopkins had told McGrath of the plans for It and for the Scot to edit it . |
| 21 | Dorothy had already told Isobel of the conversation that afternoon , so she was prepared ; but he found it difficult to get round to the real object of the visit . |
| 22 | We had n't issued a certificate because the school or college had n't told SCOTVEC of the outcome of the module by filling in a Form NC6 . ’ |
| 23 | As discussed above , the high currency of the group awards of HNC and HND has been built upon in the Advanced Courses Development Programme and the expressed need for analogous awards in the National Certificate has convinced SCOTVEC of the desirability of having group awards at all levels . |
| 24 | Another lap saw the Romanians pull past the French and the Trains pass Balabanov/Dobrotvorski of the USSR . |
| 25 | Another ex-Head Girl who now taught was Nellie Nixon , commonly called Nellie of the Knobbles because she was so thin that her muscles stood out . |
| 26 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 27 | Carolyn found her most difficult task was persuading Laura of the necessity for such schedules . |
| 28 | ‘ What have we got here ? ’ asked Joe of the salt cellar . |
| 29 | From her sensible shoes to her practical haircut , her appearance proclaims her membership of that generation of British women who survived the privations of wartime and went on to spend their lives in ungrumbling toil creating the now tarnished Jerusalem of the Welfare State . |
| 30 | He warned Ramsey of the burden of administration and how he would need advisers . |