Example sentences of "[verb] of [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feasting her eyes on him as he quickly enclosed his nether limbs , Gina was forcibly reminded of their first meeting . |
| 2 | We have been constantly reminded of our 25th anniversary by the Official Opening Ceremony on Saturday 29th August , the Service of Thanksgiving in the Church of the Holy Rude , the Logie Kirk Commemoration of the University Mace , a prestigious series of public lectures , concerts , exhibitions , parties of all kinds and , yet to come , the Silver Jubilee Graduation Ball in early July . |
| 3 | He thought : He has acquired the mystique of the story-teller and , glancing at the ring of fire-lit and intent faces , he was suddenly reminded of his first village school , of the children clustered round Miss Douglas at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon for the half hour of story-time , and felt a pang of pain and regret for those lost days of innocence and love . |
| 4 | Beata Bishop in her book A Time to Heal , which describes her experience of cancer and how she ultimately cured it by using alternative healing methods , writes of her first experience of conventional surgery . |
| 5 | ‘ Your notes — those you made of your last reconnaissance flight … |
| 6 | But he answered all the difficult questions that Harvey Smith 's younger son asked of him last night to defeat a flying round from Philip Heffer on Viewpoint . |
| 7 | Nor did he ever speak of his first wife , her mother . |
| 8 | All I could remember of my first visit was that I had found several items , including a Tudor buckle . |
| 9 | Then he said : ‘ Actually , as I suppose you know , I got rid of my first wife on to Walter . ’ |
| 10 | Trying to get rid of his second run so that he can get home by eleven . |
| 11 | Nothing is known of his first wife whom he married c .1730 , but they had two daughters . |
| 12 | Ian was boyish , athletic , charming , and , Clare suspected , terrified of his fortieth birthday : there had been a bit of the Peter Pan in Sam , and Clare recognized the symptoms . |
| 13 | One recorded of its first drill , ‘ if only the Kaiser could have seen it it would have made his Imperial Hunship feel frightfully sick ’ . |
| 14 | I can see a marriage that is not a marriage and a parson who is not a parson , and you will die of your first child . |
| 15 | Sometimes she thought of her first husband and wondered briefly whether gross infidelity was really sufficient cause for divorce and whether faithless men were not perhaps — overall — more amusing than the other sort . |
| 16 | J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. , 1972 ) she tells of her first meeting with the composer , of his influence on her technique and interpretation , of how she came to terms with the music , of Plante and other virtuosi , and gives a detailed analysis of various pieces . |
| 17 | I dreamed of you last night . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Just like arriving at any other golf club , ’ said Montgomerie abruptly when asked of his first trip up Magnolia Drive to the clubhouse . |
| 19 | We can expect an acceleration of such activity over the coming week if the weather remains mild and we are likely to start hearing of our first summer visitors also . |
| 20 | I dreamt of it last night . ’ |
| 21 | THE ORPHAN smuggled out of war-torn Bosnia by TV newsman Michael Nicholson spoke of her first days at a British school yesterday and declared : ‘ It is good . ’ |
| 22 | When I talk with children I used to coach , who are now working their way up the ladder of older and older age groups , I often think of my first experiences of cross-country running . |
| 23 | Think of your first couple of questions about that company . |
| 24 | ‘ Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out , go home and think of the dozens of abortions you 've had , go home and think of that and your damned caesarian sections too , and your children who hate your guts ! |
| 25 | I had to think of her seeing the copy of my cock on Monday , I had to think of her first thinking , ‘ Golly , what a nut ’ , and then finding she had to stare uncontrollably at the specific image of my cock , boyoing , had to file that image away in a secret file folder where she filed away all my asterisk memos , and that some night working late , she 'd reach her long arms down to that drawer and bring out the asterisk file and go through the pages , asterisk after asterisk , until she found my cock . |
| 26 | By the time the monthly nurse was installed once again , and Mrs Longhill was delivered of her second child — a daughter , to be named Prudence — Ruth had almost ceased to think or dream about anything . |
| 27 | Ms Jerry Hall , the Texan mannequin delivered of her third child , has been articulating the deep relationship she shares with Mr Michael Jagger , the confectionery-loving vocal stylist with the Rolling Stones ( a once popular beat ensemble , M' lud ) . |
| 28 | Helen was planning to leave Mrs Webb — now safely delivered of her next child — and to seek employment in London and live at home . |
| 29 | The Konica League part-timers had only 16 minutes left of their second leg in Cork to negotiate when late goals by Pat Morley and substitute Johnny Glynn earned the Irish champions victory on away goals . |
| 30 | If the exiled son were a soldier and died suddenly , as so often happened , a brother officer would write of his last hours to the sorrowing parents ( see chapter seven ) . |