Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
2 | If you would like to see me on top of Michael 's bonfire ring in and the er th th the more amount of votes we get in for that |
3 | In return for the aid , the Bulgarian authorities have agreed to close down the plant 's four 440-megawatt pressurized water reactors , which lack containment facilities to enclose them in case of an accident , as soon as financially possible , perhaps by 1998 . |
4 | I had the great honour of being invited to meet them on behalf of our Society , as our Society is one of the big users of the Resources Centre at the Community College where our Journal is printed etc . |
5 | Finally they seemed to accept me as part of the landscape and came within the range of my camera . |
6 | The emphasis that Calvinists placed upon the majesty of God led them to condemn as blasphemous any attempts to tinker with the supernatural , and thus their reaction to calamities was to accept them as part of God 's inscrutable purpose — the working out of a divine providence which governed all human affairs . |
7 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
8 | With increasing demands on caterers to provide top quality food quickly and efficiently , chefs are turning to well-established equipment manufacturers to provide them with state of the art equipment which will make their job easier . |
9 | With a rolling network we would have been there live to provide them with information of direct concern to all their lives — people , incidentally , who could not afford to pay for a service from any other source . |
10 | Council Courier continued to be circulated to regions and branches to inform them without delay of the decisions of Council . |
11 | My longing is to meet you in play of love , my lover : |
12 | It was odd to find him in charge of such a low-level enterprise as the Vadinamian protection racket . |
13 | During his eight-day visit , Pohl inspected conditions in a number of Iranian prisons and was greeted on Jan. 23-24 by sit-ins outside the UN office in Tehran by the families of political detainees , demanding to be allowed to provide him with evidence of abuses . |
14 | That failing , there can be a conveyance between the husband and wife , to which the first mortgagee is a party , to release the husband from liability under the first mortgage and take a covenant to observe and perform the same from the wife who will also covenant with the husband to indemnify him in respect of the second mortgage . |
15 | Without perceptual systems to provide us with knowledge of the outside world we are impotent . |
16 | It seems to me , however , that to view them as part of a wider set of problems relating to speech-writing differences is more consistent with verifiable linguistic data . |
17 | Thus if you are Jewish and working class , your Jewishness is used to disqualify you from membership of labour organizations ; but equally if you are Jewish and poor , your poverty is made to signify the essentially parasitic nature of your ‘ race ’ on the host community . |
18 | Temples and shrines were built to his memory , and a cult grew up to venerate him as founder of the Empire . |
19 | Given his form , and the contribution he makes , I would have to pick him in front of Rocastle at the moment . |
20 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
21 | He put some very special old wine on the table in front of the King and said , ‘ Duke Michael offers you this wine and asks you to drink it for love of him . ’ |
22 | I 'd even begun to mistake it for part of my own body , an incurable growth that I 've got to learn to live with . |
23 | ‘ I really wanted to see you on behalf of Annabel , ’ Scott said . |
24 | I have written to Professor Vessey to request permission to film at the Radcliffe Infirmary and to interview you in part of our Project Video English language teaching video programme . |
25 | He had , he said , originally planned to keep improvements apart , but had now been forced to combine them on account of a ‘ piratical ’ edition , published in Dublin , producing everything under one cover , and therefore he had been obliged to do the same . |
26 | Similarly , when the informants were given five sets of words , and asked to list them in order of the likelihood of appearing in SF , the experienced readers included " dreams ' , " drugs ' , " consciousness ' , " identity " , " information " ( all themes of recent SF ) while the inexperienced readers marked only " Martians ' , " flying saucers ' , " ray-guns ' , " robots ' , " mutants ' . |
27 | Before we do the role plays I 'd like to discuss them to sort of , so we know exactly what we 're gon na do . |
28 | I did n't want to embarrass you in front of your grandson — ’ |
29 | And I promise not to embarrass you in front of the paying public by pointing out the mildew on your roses . ’ |
30 | Rebecca , more unusually , was an LBT — a Loud Blowsy Tart , normally an evening job guaranteed to embarrass you in front of your wife and friends at a night out at the theatre or similar . |