Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] of [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found it most distasteful to think of him owing money to the bingo-playing woman in the basement . |
| 2 | Even if it began to howl or to wave its rattle , we would hardly claim that by so doing it was discriminating between the items mentioned and a myriad others ; indeed it would be odd to talk of its discriminating at all . |
| 3 | But it must be the individual 's right to choose of his own free will to follow the darkness or the light within himself . |
| 4 | ‘ I was so very sorry to hear of his early death . ’ |
| 5 | I am glad to hear of your intended marriage with Ellen Nicholl , and , as I promised to assist you at starting , I am happy to tell you that I will pay to you one hundred and fifty pounds yearly during my life , and until your annual income derived from your profession of a Chancery barrister shall amount to six hundred guineas , of which your own admission will be the only evidence that I shall receive or require . |
| 6 | The only words from which it can be contended that it is to be implied are the words , ‘ I am glad to hear of your intended marriage with Ellen Nicholl . |
| 7 | Det Chief Supt Colin Port , head of Warwickshire CID , said : ‘ It is hard to think of anyone less of a match for these brutal people . ’ |
| 8 | One might argue that Montini , who had more ‘ on-the-job ’ training for the office of pope and was intellectually better prepared for it than anyone since Benedict XIV in the eighteenth century , became pope too late to give of his best . |
| 9 | So it 's sometime useful to think of it that way round , Newton 's third law , rather than force is mass times acceleration , you 're interested in the effect , now what did we get for this , what sort of acceleration do we get . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the local historian will find it useful to think of his chosen parish or neighbourhood in terms of broad categories such as ‘ open-field arable ’ or ‘ wood-pasture ’ or ‘ fenland edge ’ and to set himself the fundamental task of understanding how people adapted themselves to their physical environment . |
| 11 | How pleasantly embarrassing to think of them all , sitting round the set at the Chases ' , making affectionately malicious remarks about his appearance and mannerisms ! |
| 12 | For those of us with non-pedigree black moggies which sprout a few white hairs , it is comforting to think of their special markings not as some kind of mongrel flaw but instead as a vital and valuable relic of earlier days in the feline history of Europe . |
| 13 | From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it . |
| 14 | There was of course Ferdinando , but she hesitated over opening her heart to her husband , who would in any case need her letter read to him and would be unable to answer of his own accord . |
| 15 | When , for example , Myra played disappointingly in the Scottish Girls ' after having made so big an impact at the Scottish Championship at Lossiemouth , he had to take her on one side and explain that she was far too exhausted , physically , to be able to give of her best : " I told her that she had to learn to pace herself and decide which tournaments she felt to be important . " |
| 16 | ‘ I am one of those people ’ , he has said in the past , ’ who must take exercise not only to be able to give of my best , but just to survive — I mean , I ca n't function without it . |
| 17 | For the past few hours she had been too busy to think of her own problem . |
| 18 | He was sorry , he said , unable to think of anything better to say . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , I like horses , ’ she agreed lamely , then , unable to think of anything intelligent to say about them , asked something that seemed of far more importance . |
| 20 | And so Clara told Clelia , in return , some of her own history , and in telling it , she seemed to find , strangely and more securely than ever a tone that absolved her , a tone that redeemed her past from meanness and humiliations , so that she even found herself able to speak of her own mother without evasion . |
| 21 | It is a matter of judgement whether Canada , Australia and Japan should be able to dispose of their own PCBs . |
| 22 | Although the Department of the Environment has said that other developed countries in Europe , including Italy , should be able to dispose of their own waste , the consignments are being dealt with by the municipal toxic waste department in Manchester . |
| 23 | While most institutions can rely on borrowing for short periods , the risk associated with underwriting would be greatly increased if institutions were unable to dispose of their existing assets quickly to provide cash ( or repay short-term borrowing ) should it prove necessary . |
| 24 | The author writes chattily from her own experience and is quite happy to tell of her own mistakes and why she now recommends what she does . |
| 25 | The rabbits find that most objectionable and are often very pleased to leave of their own accord . |
| 26 | He found it deeply offensive to think of Alice-his beautiful Alice — being rejected by anyone . |
| 27 | Although the new law would require Berlusconi to dispose of his controlling interest in the daily newspaper Il Giornale , its provisions were significantly less stringent than originally proposed , and it was criticized as allowing Berlusconi 's dominant position in the Italian media to remain largely unchecked . |
| 28 | It may be more pertinent to think of their pragmatic acceptance of the new system . |
| 29 | ‘ The signorina is very kind to think of my aching legs , ’ bowed the waiter . |
| 30 | Thus , many manic-depressives , even in their ‘ up ’ phases , describe feelings of depression and it is probably more correct to think of their psychotic state as a whole as a rather peculiar co-existence of irritable moods . |