Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 2 | Eating and drinking is particularly good value — you can get a 6 course ‘ Mezes ’ meal , where you get lots of small dishes of Turkish delicacies for about £3 although a good bottle of wine may set you back 70p ! |
| 3 | Then we drive down to the drive-in restaurant where we eat lots of crap including a double order of onion rings . |
| 4 | Nigel had reasoned that , as most washing originated where one divested oneself of one 's dirty clothes and bed linen , i.e. the top floor , it was poor time-and-motion study to have the cleaning apparatus on the ground floor . |
| 5 | His principles are chosen by people behind a hypothetical ‘ veil of ignorance ’ , where they know nothing of their social position in society , their sex , race , abilities or conceptions of the good ( Rawls , 1972 , in particular pt . |
| 6 | we get more of you than me get plenty of me on these . |
| 7 | We tended to stick together too , although no-one accused us of being colonists . |
| 8 | Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI . |
| 9 | I would never have dared speak so , but she was quite unselfconscious , although I suspected her of an intention to shock — to shock me as much as anyone . |
| 10 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
| 11 | My disability makes this rather a slow process , so I had plenty of time . |
| 12 | Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record . |
| 13 | Well Mrs Toad is having a sale in her shop + + she has laid out her caish + cash register + + an' a number of pots of tea + + it 's gon na be a special sale because + + so she has th' + a sign up saying + prices are slashed + so she hopes lots of customers will be coming along + to visit her + + while she ‘ s waiting for customers + she goes about setting out the rest of + of the shop + + for things in the sale + + an ’ she brings on + large cans of tin + of tea + + for + she can only carry one at a time + so she walks on with one and puts it on the counter + + |
| 14 | It was about forty miles from York at present , so she had plenty of time . |
| 15 | She and Susan had rooms adjoining , so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house . |
| 16 | ‘ So you heard none of the commotion when Sarah Parker roused Dr Darnell ? ’ |
| 17 | This beautiful golden ointment-like sauce is really the pivot and raison d " être of the whole affair , so you need plenty of it . |
| 18 | Although we know nothing of her education , she writes that the Countess was ‘ directed ’ by a mother famed for her furtherance of Protestant and humanist learning , Catharine Bertie , dowager Duchess of Suffolk [ q.v. ] , and we may suppose that more than usual attention was paid to her reading . |
| 19 | The production of axes from these sites was on a prodigious scale , although we know nothing of how they were traded and distributed all over England and Wales . |
| 20 | But at least we managed to keep it in the UK , although we had lots of offers to go abroad . |
| 21 | Some parts of the towpath are already in a cyclable condition ; we shall be working on the parts which are not — a total distance of about one mile , so we need plenty of volunteers ! |
| 22 | I understand from my solicitor that the custody hearing wo n't be till after the Easter holidays , so we have plenty of time . |
| 23 | Several customers had similar tales to tell although there seemed none of the panic of the previous year , only a feeling that war was inevitable and a preoccupation with details . |
| 24 | getting compurgators to swear that they believed him to be oathworthy , although they knew nothing of the facts of the case . |
| 25 | And although they maintained none of County Durham 's 5,000 teachers would lose their jobs the higher than expected pay deal will make the county dig into its reserves to pay for the salary hike . |
| 26 | Although it has none of your words on it , nor no other mark of you , I have by slow degrees and probably much self-deception turned it into a love letter from you . |
| 27 | He had something of the solitary about him , something of the dreamer , although he had none of the dreamer 's physical clumsiness . |
| 28 | When he was king he was normally accompanied by the clerks of the royal chapel so he had plenty of opportunities to indulge in the pleasures of ritual . |
| 29 | Faced with the defenceless young man asking for mercy , the blacksmith could not kill him , so he relieved him of his sword and took him prisoner . |
| 30 | The Toshiba radar rainfall monitoring system is designed to alert local governments to unexpectedly heavy rainfall , so it gives plenty of advance warning for extra drainage and emergency pumps . |