Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Australian honey-guide is so fond of hair it will pluck it straight from a horse 's back or even a human 's head . |
| 2 | ‘ I can only do it when we 're in the middle of a conversation and you look at me speculatively and then say something anodyne in a voice that is so deliberately empty of judgment I can practically feel the strength of will you are exerting to keep it so , ’ said David with the hint of a laugh in his deep voice . |
| 3 | ‘ If he 's the reason you 're afraid of sex I 'd like to hear about it . ’ |
| 4 | These young people are rarely lazy — they 're virtually always depressed and afraid of rejection they ca n't handle . |
| 5 | Each of course you 'd be about seventeen years . |
| 6 | I said I was sorry and hoped she 'd soon be better and to tell her not to worry , that of course we 'd manage . |
| 7 | that of course I 'd do What Do You Want . |
| 8 | But she 's sure to have some ideas about my future , and — and , well , she 's been so marvellous all this time , running the house and looking after poor Daddy , that of course I must consider her now . |
| 9 | Since the density of wood averages about one-fourteenth of that of steel it may be that about thirty times the volume of wood is used , taking the world as a whole . |
| 10 | By the process of displacement one idea may surrender to another the whole volume of its cathexis ; by that of condensation it may appropriate the whole cathexis of several other ideas . |
| 11 | I think there is sympathy erm for the people who are sick of course I can . |
| 12 | If you think the position there is better well of course you can take that position . |
| 13 | Which meant that net of tax you would , y your , your yield would have to be about eight hundred in order to , net of tax , give you just under seven hundred . |
| 14 | If banks are short of liquidity they will lend less to both markets and rates will rise ; if the Bank of England readily provides funds to the discount market , houses will offer less attractive terms to other banks who will deposit instead with the parallel markets causing rates there to fall . |
| 15 | Had he not been so short of time he might well have found 25 … |
| 16 | If he was normally quite a kind person who 'd taken up robbing banks because he was short of cash they could put jam on his bread and vodka in his water , and if he was a horror they could empty the potato peelings over him whenever they felt like it . ’ |
| 17 | As we have seen , if banks are short of cash they can call in loans from the discount houses . |
| 18 | If the commercial banks are short of cash they will recall some of their money at call or short notice from the discount houses . |
| 19 | Oh yeah , if that , she short of cash she can well sure be back , I bet you , I wonder who 's she taken over there ? |
| 20 | When a business finds itself seriously short of cash it can often buy breathing time by approaching its creditors and asking for a moratorium on payments . |
| 21 | and , well no it 's not sociable but because you come out and it , it gets you away from here because you 've got so many things on during the day you want some time to yourself and because you , we 've found us a place that we wo n't get busted and we know we wo n't we go in and have it but I can guarantee that if we were , like walking into this room , if it was full of smoke it would put me off straight away . |
| 22 | With so much of interest to discover and such a wealth of magnificent coast and countryside to explore , within even an hour or two of home you could find yourself in a beautiful new world . |
| 23 | At Dead of Night we 'll to the Bride-bed come , And sprinkle hallow 'd Dew-drops round the Room . |
| 24 | " I suppose you 're thinking I 'll be so frightened of scandal I 'll say yes , is that it ? |
| 25 | ‘ It 's done on the barrel , ’ said the chairman who much more happily confided that at 59 of course he will be batting and bowling again this summer , ‘ and that 's what it worked out a pint . |