Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in 1613 he ‘ went beyond the seas without licence ’ and settled first at Brussels , then at Antwerp , he was in personal contact with another expatriate , Peter Philips , and with the Amsterdam organist Sweelinck , both of whom figure in the Fitzwilliam Book . |
| 2 | We took off into the last of the evening sun in poor visibility and I do not recall seeing any of the aircraft that took-off in front of me rise in the evening murk , I was too busy putting the nose down and squeezing a bit more speed out of the lumbering Whitley as we cleared the boundary . |
| 3 | The largest of them lives in the rivers of Japan . |
| 4 | But MPs take it very seriously when one of them lies in the Commons . |
| 5 | In addition , during the same period almost 3,900 people completed TOPS courses , a substantial proportion of them being in the colleges . |
| 6 | ‘ Even if I just get one of my feet in the wrong position it really messes me about and it 's easy for that foot to just flick off the peg . ’ |
| 7 | one of my sections in the subdivision is thinking of declaring UDI [ unilateral declaration of independence ] from the Divisional Headquarters … as for Headquarters and the Force organizational structure , well that 's just a joke as far as these men are concerned . |
| 8 | Its attraction arose principally from its iconoclastic message , for de Santillana explained one of the key conceptual innovations in the rise of modern science in terms that challenged the assumptions of my teachers in the history of science . |
| 9 | With no Changing the Guard today , we had a lovely relaxed morning — a drive down to the Guards Depot to see a couple of my friends in the Guards Dog Unit — German Shepherd Guard Dogs . |
| 10 | Since I was the best spinner of my type in the world , eventually it would all come right . |
| 11 | For my contemporaries in the postgraduate school at Durham in the early 1980s , the inclusion of the scientism of the self ( to use Okely 's phrase ) became part of ‘ doing the business ’ ( to move to the jargon of my contemporaries in the detective departments ) . |
| 12 | One of my contemporaries in the English Department was , now Professor of Linguistics in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia . |
| 13 | I spent much of my childhood in the New Forest and have watched with sadness as it has deteriorated over the decades . |
| 14 | Of course , the experiment was not conclusive — as any inspection of my criteria in the last chapter would make clear . |
| 15 | But they took me in then because one of my mates in the London Scottish was in the Squad . |
| 16 | One of my magazines in the States has been following up rumours about the Josephs . |
| 17 | There were less fortunate gastronomic experiences : one morning in November 1816 Green was ‘ extremely unwell by being deprived of my sleep in the night by the illness of my wife , caused as she and I suppose by eating beef stakes for supper . ’ |
| 18 | I just caught sight of my daughter in the car and — ‘ |
| 19 | The weather became very bitter up here and because it had been a bad summer I had kept two of my cattle in the byre by the house all the time . |
| 20 | Erm well it it really stemmed out of my work in the mother and baby |
| 21 | What the unit was doing could , I suppose , be seen as a natural continuation of my work in the Lager . |
| 22 | But most of my work in the bakery was on the the small side scones and pancakes and crumpets and er little cakes . |
| 23 | ‘ He warned me that I 'd never get much credit — that people would be dismissive of my part in the great tradition , ’ said Carrick . |
| 24 | Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’ |
| 25 | Back in Cardiff , my name went up on the Honours Board and my father , in the last year before his retirement , quietly enjoyed the thought that I was to spend at least part of my life in the county in which his father had been born . |
| 26 | My mother , having been deprived of one prospective son-in-law , Cedric , now got it in to her head that I might meet an American , and decide to marry him and live the rest of my life in the USA , where she could n't get at me and see what was going on . |
| 27 | And before ‘ name and address supplied ’ asks , I was born and lived most of my life in the country ; I know that it is unnecessary to rip animals to pieces to preserve the balance of nature . |
| 28 | The first volume of his Reminiscences of my Life in the Highlands was printed privately in 1883 and caused offence in some quarters by its frankness ; the second volume was still in the press when he died , and it was suppressed to avoid threatened lawsuits . |
| 29 | [ Joseph Mitchell , Reminiscences of my Life in the Highlands , 2 vols. , 1883 , reprinted 1971 with introduction by I. Robertson ; Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers , vol. lxxvi , 1884 , pp. 362–8 ; Engineering , vol. xxxvi , 1883 , pp. 523–4 . ] |
| 30 | For that reason I have related some of the more interesting highlights of my life in the Western Isles in the following chapters which can be regarded as an intermission to my Cutter Service . |