Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 2 | A good deal of it to the east of the Cherwell remains in use as a main road ( A41 and A4095 ) , the only important break in the line being caused by the growth of the Saxon town of Bicester , a mile to the north , in place of the now-vanished Romano-British town of Alchester . |
| 3 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |
| 4 | They live only in warm parts of the world , the bulk of them in the tropics . |
| 5 | Victor Wellington said there was a ring of yours on the dead woman 's left hand . ’ |
| 6 | I see , so that measures the speed of them across the screen this way you can time it . |
| 7 | ( 3 ) There may be a time lag between the occasion of the alleged rape and the reporting of it to the police . |
| 8 | We had enough of Blobby yesterday , without any mention of him on the programme again . |
| 9 | Ever since Ben had first found that single mention of him in the journals . |
| 10 | Although there is no mention of it on the map , I could swear that the tiny loch has a crannog in it . |
| 11 | When a recording is ‘ live ’ , as this one is , it should say so on the cover , and if that 's too difficult or exhausting there should be mention of it at the beginning of the booklet . |
| 12 | ‘ That was n't in my contract , and there was no mention of it in the programme Giles and Cavell have outlined for me either . ’ |
| 13 | However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all . |
| 14 | The photograph of her with the older woman was well done , though . |
| 15 | A photograph of him as the Devil ( not in female disguise ) shows him poised on one foot , the other leg bent so that his whole body is tilted eccentrically . |
| 16 | There 'd been a photograph of it in the paper , across someone 's hedge , its wings in a tree . |
| 17 | Morgan found confirmation of it in the fact that the people he had studied in most detail — the Iroquois — happened to be matrilineal . |
| 18 | You refer to a recent study of mine on the success and failure of leveraged buyouts . |
| 19 | ‘ Randy 's got a slower pony in this chukka , who wo n't like Dopey taking a piece of him in the line-out one bit . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Parks that car of hers on the roadside and just roams . |
| 21 | He 's a sort of help and partner , and he 's had part of the rearing of her from the time I took her , and his advice is always sensible . |
| 22 | He told me that if I did n't agree to marry you he 'd release that tape of his to the Press … ’ |
| 23 | Two young Romanians came and stood on either side of me at the mirror . |
| 24 | Her cousin always coaxed a lighter side of her to the surface . |
| 25 | She was telling them a story , and they were sitting on either side of her on the sofa with their mouths hanging slightly open , Gawain meditatively fingering a lock of her long , dark hair , Damian staring at her and absently scratching his balls . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't know you were such a strong swimmer , ’ he huffed , trapping her at the side of the pool with his arms each side of her on the bar . |
| 27 | But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other . |
| 28 | When the chicken leg is cooked , cook the stuffing by the side of it on the same plate , according to the instructions on the packet . |
| 29 | And it 's important for me to clear that side of it on the basis that you have no responsibility for setting the assignments up . |
| 30 | They were so close now he could feel the wind of them on the back of his neck . |