Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] of a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not only advantageous for us to know which of a horse 's emotions are destructive to us having a good working relationship with it ; but ideally , if we also consider horse will do more for us and give us greater pleasure . |
| 2 | To try somebody of a trainer er . |
| 3 | ANDERS NEILSEN , the English National champion , staged a fighting comeback against Finland 's Robert Liljeqist to assure himself of a medal and join three Danes in today 's men 's singles semi-finals at the Pilkington Glass European Badminton Championships in Glasgow . |
| 4 | The farmer who sold it was happy to rid himself of a wreck which was no more than a dangerous playground . |
| 5 | He was , and clearly remained to the last days of his long life , a fairly severe obsessional-rigid , indecisive , racked with doubts and unable to rid himself of a penchant for rather down-market women which led him into a series of miserable relationships . |
| 6 | All these things are just as likely to rid you of a headache as taking a pill . |
| 7 | It is possible to identify something of a backlash against Edward 's policies , but it occurred in October , rather than May , 1483 and was subsumed in the rebellion against Richard III . |
| 8 | It is possible to identify something of a backlash against Edward 's policies , but it occurred in October , rather than May , 1483 and was subsumed in the rebellion against Richard III . |
| 9 | For many Arab people , their ambivalence about supporting Saddam Hussein is secondary to their desperate need to rid themselves of a system imposed by outside forces ; a system that enables a small ruling Arab elite to plunder the region 's resources , siphoning off cheap oil to the West , while millions of Arabs live in dire poverty , struggling to survive the economic blows dealt to the Arab nation by the West . |
| 10 | Geographers have discovered a recent tendency for rural areas to see something of a recovery in population and employment levels , no matter where they are ; conversely , conurbation ( metropolitan ) areas have suffered a loss of population and employment , whether in London , the West Midlands or the North ; while intervening areas lie along a statistical continuum . |
| 11 | This was to drive something of a wedge between him and Lloyd George and other former Welsh allies . |
| 12 | At the same time , using retaliatory import tariffs and other protective measures , the Dutch government was able to give something of a boost to a number of Dutch industries which had previously been weak or languishing . |
| 13 | And their departure is likely to leave something of a hole . |
| 14 | The election of 1979 seemed to mark something of a return to " normal " in that third parties had their vote cut back to less than 20 per cent and they were only able to secure twenty-seven seats . |
| 15 | The matrix therefore represents the cross references between what is seen and the constructs that come to be applied in making sense of the experience and , by recording these , it is able to illuminate something of a person 's way of thinking and responding . |
| 16 | And if it was n't for Captain Eric , Sister Margaret and a few others , there would be precious little of a toehold for people like James , Carol and many others in their struggle to build something of a life in Easterhouse . |
| 17 | The magistrates were held entitled to find that the constables were not private friends at the certificate-holder bona fide entertained by him , and to convict him of a contravention of subs . |
| 18 | It is not that the hearer has to decide which of a range of possible interpretations the speaker intended . |
| 19 | But the reality is that the court has not given to doctors any right that they did not previously have : it has merely declined to deprive them of a power which it is for them alone to exercise . |
| 20 | Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’ |
| 21 | Disclaimers may also be used by referees and others to rob you of a claim for damages . |
| 22 | Roberts took his tally for the season to 150 with a treble on Carousel Music , True Story and Shuailaan at Windsor , only for Lloyd to rob him of a four-timer by beating him on Brigante Di Cielo . |
| 23 | I had it done to remind me of a mistake from which I have learnt much , and of an ending which I have no cause to regret . ’ |
| 24 | Tom Emmett 's story is laced with thick Yorkshire dialect ; Ted Barratt , another left-arm bowler , prolific but unlucky , is rescued from the deepest obscurity of them all ; the colourful George Ulyett is seen as ‘ a sort of Victorian Ian Botham ’ , and was involved in the scandal over match-rigging on the 1881–82 tour of Australia ( to say nothing of a gatecrashing at 10 Downing Street ) ; the weird William Scotton lurks here too ; and the elegant but equally tragic Willie Bates ; and the outrageous Bobby Peel , the longest-lived of them all , by a long way , and the fourth Yorkie in the collection . |
| 25 | She longed for a shower and a rest , to say nothing of a change of clothes . |
| 26 | Fanny ate a whole fowl for breakfast , to say nothing of a tower of hot cakes . |
| 27 | Certainly in my own experience I have never come across armed smugglers , although on at least one occasion I was threatened with a knife when attempting to stop a seaman leaving a ship , and once I was attached by a ship 's steward when attempting to relieve him of a briefcase full of uncustomed goods . |
| 28 | Too often students look for any excuse-a familiar form of words as the main topic — to relieve themselves of a mass of factual information . |
| 29 | Before I answer your questions this time , I would like to tell you of a couple of points that have arisen recently about machine maintenance . |
| 30 | Sandra joined the Nicholson crowd in the B-movie circle and was to become something of a model for future long-term relationships . |