Example sentences of "[adj] of [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She kept clear of everybody in the house in case they reminded her of the ill person her uncle had become . |
| 2 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 3 | A gelding that is accompanied by a more may be extremely possessive of her in the company of other horses , and may be tempted to attack all and sundry — including other mares ! |
| 4 | It sleeps on , oblivious of everything but the source of life within it that is strengthening it daily . |
| 5 | Leonora forgot Guy and everything else in her rediscovered world as Penry 's presence transformed the darkness into an exciting , intimate microcosm inhabited by two people oblivious of everything but the sheer physical pleasure of being together . |
| 6 | They were ensconced , it seemed to Robyn , in their own private world , oblivious of anything except the desire that was building between them . |
| 7 | Meredith wriggled to the edge of the seat , oblivious of anything but the need to put this man straight about her very proper , homely grandmother . |
| 8 | He had grown fond of her in the last few days . |
| 9 | The presence that rose thus so strangely beside the waters , is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire . |
| 10 | He will do well administering the Office , but I am frankly afraid of him in the House . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd been trying to see as little as possible of him towards the end of term . |
| 12 | It certainly contributed in a more direct manner in that most of the food we ate had a high carbohydrate content and , although I was unaware of it at the time , I put on a lot of weight . |
| 13 | And they were glad of them during the war . |
| 14 | When being questioned by magistrates about her teaching ( they were suspicious of her on the grounds of her sex and lack of social position ) she is confident that a greater Lord will answer for her . |
| 15 | She scanned her mind , but it was blank of everything except the worry of her escape . |
| 16 | I mean would n't you be absolutely pig sick of them by the first of December never mind christmas . |
| 17 | How beautiful , how devoid of everything like the handicraft of art it is — the largeness , and yet ingenuity of its effect — the purity of its colour — the truth , yet refinement and elegance of the action , particularly of the hands ( in which he particularly excels ) ; and then , a lesson to all high-minded slovens , the patient vigilance with which the whole is linked together , by touches , in some instances small almost as a miniature , but like the sparkling of water . |
| 18 | He 'd been conscious of her in the old days of course , although he kept quiet about that . |
| 19 | Shelley had been conscious of him through the corner of her eye , but had deliberately made no effort to speak to him . |
| 20 | And if given to us as actual temptations , the rather lure of the church , the Reverend Simon Stephen Daedalus SJ , and the lure of the flesh ‘ He closed his eyes , surrendering himself to her body and mind , conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips ’ . |
| 21 | And the men of Northern Nigeria , conscious of themselves as the most refined products of a now self-consciously imperial civilization , were distinctly more inclined than their predecessors in the Punjab to ruminate on what they regarded , rather surprisingly in the circumstances , as the subtleties of their craft . |
| 22 | Without her being conscious of it at the time , her struggle for independence rotated around the figure of Hansel . |
| 23 | I was barely conscious of anything except the will to live . |
| 24 | ‘ Marxism ’ , on the other hand , Sartre claims , ‘ is History itself becoming conscious of itself ’ ( I , 40 ) : as for Lukács , it is by becoming conscious of itself as the subject of history that the working class will understand history 's meaning — and so recognize itself as the meaning of history . |
| 25 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 26 | She wished she felt as sure of herself as the man so casually lounging opposite her . |
| 27 | Lying face-downwards in a tangle of strings was a puppet fully five feet high , a sylphide in a fountain of white tulle , fallen flat down as if someone had got tired of her in the middle of playing with her , dropped her and wandered off . |
| 28 | This is selfish of him in the true sense . |
| 29 | The Conservative Party is as short of it as the Exchequer or the rest of us . |
| 30 | Yet she 'd walked right into this marvelous chance , with no mother who would get jealous of her with the baby , only this bunch of doctors to deal with . |