Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leicestershire won by 133 runs IN MAKING a laudable attempt to sustain interest in a foreshortened contest at Fenner 's , Leicestershire learnt something of long-term disadvantage : their spin-bowling is not of county championship quality . |
| 2 | Ramsey believed none of this . |
| 3 | For the rest , there is fish ; the waters around Aegina yield lots of tasty varieties , which make up income-earner number three . |
| 4 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 5 | Had not Lady Lavinia said something of this ? |
| 6 | There had been conflicting stories as to whether Anthony had been intended , Wells having gone on record as saying he had been conceived in a moment of carelessness , professor Gordon Ray , who edited the West-Wells correspondence , as saying it was a deliberate attempt by Wells to keep Rebecca with him , and Rebecca herself as saying , ‘ Wells cheated me of all but one child . ’ |
| 7 | He saw he had made Malm think him of unsound mind and he said quietly , earnestly , " There was nothing , nothing but what I 've told you . " |
| 8 | They might have mislaid the formula for operating over five days — December 1986 is the last time England beat anyone of any consequence when asked to bat and bowl for longer than 55 overs — but there is no getting away from their ability to play the negative stuff as well as anyone else . |
| 9 | Both had been pardoned by Menem in October 1989 [ see pp. 36972-73 ] and subsequently cashiered , but Seineldin had been re-arrested and sentenced on Oct. 22 to 60 days ' military detention in San Martín de los Andes , 1,500 km from Buenos Aires , for bypassing the Army chain of command and writing directly to Menem warning him of growing discontent within the Army [ see p. 37853 ] . |
| 10 | Weinberger believed none of that . |
| 11 | Katherine knew none of this . |
| 12 | Katie Jane absolved herself of all responsibility for this when she recently claimed in the NME that is was all the onlooker 's problem . |
| 13 | But L. knows nothing of this . |
| 14 | Wendy Newing suggests plenty of practical tips to help you capture the perfect shot |
| 15 | These did not fruit well at Chelsea but by now the tomato , also known as the love-apple , had become well known in England ( it had been introduced in the sixteenth century , when Gerard considered it of little value ) and was much used in soups . |
| 16 | The consequences were much clearer : Olwyn got lots of positive attention . |
| 17 | Tom told us of one horse whose molars on one side of the mouth were excessively short and on the other very long . |
| 18 | Next , Brutus asks lots of rhetorical questions , following one another , each time manipulating the crowd even more . |
| 19 | But when Duncan reminded him of this incident some years later , he " not only denied knowing the ballad but singing it … " |
| 20 | As it happens , he would n't be arriving at the best possible moment : William Charles , 14 years his brother 's senior , was finding his own fame and fortune rather on the wane just at that time — he did n't need those supercilious letters from William Jowett in Jamaica to remind him of that . |
| 21 | Stewart gave the car its first win at Zandvoort , and victories at the Nurburgring , by a staggering four minutes , and at Watkins Glen ensured him of second place in the championship to his former team-mate Hill . |
| 22 | Meg gave lots of good advice down the phone . |
| 23 | ‘ Warton warned me of reciprocal traffic — probably out of the Isle of Man bound for Blackpool . |
| 24 | Tabel took none of these craftsmen into his workshop but employed immigrant tradesmen such as Tschudi , Kirckmann and Willbrook . |
| 25 | Kinnock feels none of this . |
| 26 | Gustave understood nothing of this . |
| 27 | Peter Edwards tells us of one particular event recently . |
| 28 | Asked on News at Ten about attacks on him by Mr Baker and other Tories , Mr Kinnock accused them of negative campaigning . |
| 29 | It would need strength and agility , but Daak had plenty of both . |
| 30 | Aschmann had none of that . |