Example sentences of "of [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we would expect potential partners to be sympathetic , because surely healthy and sustainable stocks are to the advantage of everyone with a long-term interest in Namibia 's fisheries . ’ |
| 2 | Cheap petrol at present does not reflect the true environmental costs of global warming and the effects on the health of everyone from the atmospheric pollutants discharged by road vehicles . |
| 3 | ‘ Dustin was so far ahead of me through the first half of the picture , it was n't even funny , ’ Peckinpah confessed . |
| 4 | ‘ I am , ’ Piers agreed , ‘ although you can continue to think of me as a glorified carpenter if you like . ’ |
| 5 | And because , as I say , of my conventional background there seemed at the time a tendency to think of me as a reactionary young man . |
| 6 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 7 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
| 8 | At home it was a simple matter for me to parade my learning in front of my sisters , stressing my more advanced academic achievements at every possible opportunity , and remaining quite oblivious to their assessment of me as an insufferable little prig . |
| 9 | She walked ahead of me on the narrow path ; she had slender legs and pretty ankles . |
| 10 | ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’ |
| 11 | I did the business with my camera , now there was plenty of light with the barn doors open , and was in the process of replacing the tarpaulin when the alarm bells went off and scared the hell out of me for the second time in five minutes . |
| 12 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 13 | ‘ I sent him ahead of me for the six-month quarantine , and the day he got out was one of the best days of my life . ’ |
| 14 | The road became narrower and ran ahead of me like a twisting silver elver . |
| 15 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |
| 16 | ‘ Male fans ask for pictures of me in a bathing costure ’ |
| 17 | Men have been known to write and ask for a picture of me in a bathing costume . |
| 18 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 19 | She stared back at him , a total and willing victim of his dark physical presence , aware of nothing but the low sexual note in his voice and the excitement engendered by the slow stroke of his hands . |
| 20 | Robbie could think of nothing but the deep growing ache around which every sense seemed focused . |
| 21 | The atmosphere consisted of nothing but the noxious fumes of burnt bodies : the recyclers could n't cope . |
| 22 | I walked as in a nightmare , aware of nothing but the few yards of tarmac ahead and stopping every few yards . |
| 23 | One can easily produce evidence at the present day of great local abundance ( e.g. of starfish or pilchards ) , but I know of nothing on a modern sea-floor to compare with the abundance plus wide distribution of the examples just mentioned . |
| 24 | I thought of nothing except the great happiness of being with him for ever . |
| 25 | They secured eight but also lost three wickets including two run outs , one of them off the last ball . |
| 26 | Although it is a newcomer to New York politics , the Coalition proved startlingly effective , distributing more than 100,000 voters ' guides , many of them through the Catholic church . |
| 27 | His hands rested on her shoulders and she could feel the warmth of them through the coarse material of her bodice . |
| 28 | ‘ We get a lot of donations from relatives and friends of people we have nursed here and we have kept a record of them over the last few years , ’ said Mrs Deidre Shaw , administrator for the appeal . |
| 29 | Often this is because they fail to understand what is expected of them under the broad , general duties of the Health and Safety at Work Act . |
| 30 | SunSoft will begin offering Adobe imaging products for the Solaris 2. x operating system from the middle of next year , SunPics will have the stuff in Unix SVR4 versions of its print system during the second half of 1993 — both of them under the Open Look graphical interface ( UX No 405 ) . |