Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you have one man killed , you are not justified in bombing cities or killing lots of others . |
| 2 | Lucie slipped the scarlet waistcoat off Gabriel 's shoulders and skinned him of the white silk shirt . |
| 3 | 3 Look at your lists and decide which of the islands you think the team should choose . |
| 4 | Those indicators to some extent point in different directions and pose something of a paradox for explanation . |
| 5 | Wear comfortable shoes and allow plenty of time . |
| 6 | They should be advised to avoid sudden cold , hypoxic conditions and infections and to take plenty of drinks , especially when hot . |
| 7 | The five of us ate Jonjoli ( which tasted like seaweed with onion ) and chips and drank lots of Russian Manavi wine and chatted to several rowdy locals , who gave us bunches of flowers and told what they thought about living in Georgia . |
| 8 | SHORTLY after Aisling Rodgers was born a woman approached her parents and accused them of pouring scalding water over the baby . |
| 9 | This able and likeable man was admirably adaptable to circumstances and had something of an eye to the main chance . |
| 10 | IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES , a black cop sat in his office above the Criminal Courts and told me of his seven years with the Hardcore Gang Unit of the District Attorney 's office : ‘ I have n't worked on anything but a murder since I started here . ’ |
| 11 | In early February , the chief of the general staff , General Mikhail Moiseev , sharply attacked the party 's military policies and accused it of failing to stem the tide of anti-military sentiment now sweeping the outlying republics ( 5,000 Lithuanians , for example , recently refused their call-up papers on the ground that the Geneva convention allows people to refuse to serve in the army of an occupying power ) . |
| 12 | Whenever you go to a new site , start your search by burying a couple of coins and reminding yourself of the different note each one makes in your headphones . |
| 13 | ( g ) one disadvantage with convertible loan stock is that there can be a tendency for stockholders to convert when profits and share prices are rising ( thus diluting the equity profit of existing ordinary shareholders and depriving them of the advantage of the cheaper gearing which such stock provides ) and to retain the stock when profits and share prices are falling , thus maintaining the debt burden of the company at a time when it may be least able to service it ; and |
| 14 | Nicephorus Phocas had mocked Liudprand of Cremona in the tenth century because western armies consisted solely of knights and knew nothing of siegecraft . |
| 15 | Leasing the herbage and pannage would disturb the deer in their lairs and deprive them of their pasture . |
| 16 | Surely manufacturers who offer these products and recommend them of use as a priming support for oils have done their research properly ? |
| 17 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 18 | This topic is meant to improve pupils ' awareness of ‘ danger ’ areas in houses and to inform them of basic safety measures and precautions which should be taken at home . |
| 19 | ‘ He reckoned I had been part of a consortium which spoke to two clubs and accused me of acting secretly — but I told him . |
| 20 | He hath put down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree . |
| 21 | European mercenaries ruling the Comoros Islands expelled 11 foreign correspondents after seizing their notebooks , film and cassette tapes and accusing them of inciting anti-government demonstrations , said one of the reporters . |
| 22 | Alternatives are needed — players with flair who can outwit defences with jinking and sidesteps and cause plenty of confusion . |
| 23 | According to Braverman , clerical workers in 1870 had many similarities to manual craft workers ; both had wide ranging responsibilities and had plenty of opportunity to use their initiative and develop their skills . |
| 24 | The tank should be heavily planted with broad leaved plants and have plenty of hiding places , in the form of bogwood . |
| 25 | From the other end of the telephone , on another continent , in another world where people slept soundly in their beds and knew nothing of battle , the familiar voice that had ordered me into so many hells was sending me back , this time to the lowest rung . |
| 26 | A rank , fetid odour clogged his nostrils and reminded him of bad meat . |
| 27 | They had a look in the river and on the banks but found nothing of course . |
| 28 | If you do not make a will , your partner has no right to look after your affairs or to inherit anything of yours . |
| 29 | Abbot Wulfsige , killed at the battle of Assandun , was according to the twelfth-century Ramsey chronicle succeeded by a German , Wythman , who quarrelled with the monks and accused them of disobedience and negligence of monastic discipline before the diocesan bishop . |
| 30 | It being my intention to encamp near their haunts in order if possible to obtain their eggs and learn something of their habits of nidification … |