Example sentences of "of [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a habit of singing joylessly about the house , and my colleague was one day amazed to hear what she thought was ‘ Drink to me Only ’ ; she had , however , little time to be surprised at this sensuality , for more careful listening revealed that the words were all about hell-fire and damnation . |
| 2 | Mr Adnan Khashoggi , a Saudi arms dealer , is being tried with her , accused of helping out in the property deals . |
| 3 | What I feel I do I do lack is I think I , I , I sort of communicate well with the , with the people , I think I cover the window and stones |
| 4 | At last the Eastern Bloc nations might have a chance of catching up with the West , and we owe them a debt . |
| 5 | Saturday 's defeat of leaders Muckamore by Cregagh left Holywood with an excellent chance of catching up with the leaders , but on Sunday they conspired to lose all wickets for a mere when chasing Carrick 's total of 177 . |
| 6 | By the mid-1970s our collective view was that , with a few notable exceptions , Soviet technology was on a distinctly inferior plane to that found in the major Western industrial countries and , moreover , had shown no signs of catching up in the previous 15–20 years . |
| 7 | ‘ Because he believed that Charles just is n't going to make it — and the sovereign 's relationship with her heir has always been difficult — Prince Philip urged her to assert that she had no intention of stepping down from the throne , that she must and will remain for the duration . ’ |
| 8 | There was no question of easing off in the second half . |
| 9 | But there are more flexible ways of easing back into the job market . |
| 10 | Angelina 's voice made him jump and he forgot all about Pretty Polly , and all about his chances of sneaking away from the Canterbury trip tomorrow to see the second day of the Kent versus Australia match . |
| 11 | At the end of the evening , an African headmaster commented , ‘ If we can multiply this kind of gathering all over the country , our political differences will vanish . ’ |
| 12 | With severe skills shortages looming , UK companies must promote more women to the most senior positions if they are to stand any chance of competing globally in the next century . |
| 13 | Thinking that in years of spray-painting , of darting about near the police and taunting them with their nearness , they had been caught only when they wanted to be . |
| 14 | I pulled myself up the safety line and made my way past the tangle of tethers up to the surface , where the boat tender was frantically pulling in all the lines . |
| 15 | There were two mortar explosions over by the road , then all was fairly quiet except for the sound of firing away in the distance at the other end of the village , where I had been earlier on in the evening . |
| 16 | Locals tend to stick to the pleasures of eating out in the evening , but there are a few spots in town for night revels . |
| 17 | The amount of material that came to hand , and the urgency of bringing home to the public what was happening , even if possible stopping what was happening , suggested the form of this book . |
| 18 | To include any such anticipatory provision has the merit of bringing home to the individual partners the importance of viewing their involvement in the firm as a long term commitment , which may serve to reduce , if not to eliminate , the pain felt if and when a cash call has to be made . |
| 19 | It 's pretty smoky — the trains give off this browny smoke and it do n't blow away — it just sort of drifts up to the roof . |
| 20 | After some years of struggling anxiously with the knotty complexities of Catholic devotion before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council , I found The Cloud of Unknowing 's stark insistence on the one thing necessary deeply liberating and felt that a weight had fallen from my shoulders . |
| 21 | as I said earlier I do n't believe anybody should of relied purely on the brochure , they had legal advisers |
| 22 | It went without saying that he did n't want to be seen , but it was worth the extra discomfort of hanging around for the extra information that he might pick up . |
| 23 | I was not alone — the Philips team had been kept waiting many hours on several days — though I was beginning to despair of hanging around at the theatre during a five-hour ‘ patching ’ session , being granted only 15 distracted minutes in a break , when we finally resumed our conversation towards midnight . |
| 24 | Pippin , our four-year-old daughter , and Paul , two-and-a-half , were becoming a little cranky and tired of hanging on to the cockpit coamings . |
| 25 | There is a rapid and immediate increase in the risk of dying shortly after the index bleed . |
| 26 | In present times the system is in danger of dying out in the Point district , as so many of the men and women have regular employment in town . |
| 27 | He had visions of booking in to the same hotel several weeks running and a knowing clerk saying , ‘ Ah , I see sir has a new Mrs Smith this weekend … ’ as his latest girl flashed her ring on the desk . |
| 28 | He knew from past experience that she was capable of leaping over to the terrace . |
| 29 | TODAY is all in favour of pressing ahead with the great public works which will give jobs in the construction , building and engineering industries , all of which have been badly hit by the recession . |
| 30 | We 've , we 've kind of shied away from the whole thing about image and about fat |