Example sentences of "of [pron] [conj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said to Old Fishy do you have kids and he said yes they 're the apple of my eye and we just hugged each other right there in front of everyone and ever since I 've been wondering what it means . |
| 2 | We 're going down this road and John was in front of me and just as John went past this wagon it pulled out and there was a car coming the other way . |
| 3 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
| 4 | So many that , er yeah , so many of them that soon as one 's sold somebody else sells another one . |
| 5 | For myself , middle-aged and of a generally conservative disposition , I regret these changes , in particular the depreciation of the Anglo-Welsh occasions : not only because there are fewer of them but also because the clubs now tend to field their second XVs . |
| 6 | ‘ Mink are unnecessary killers and have a habit of decimating fish stocks if left to breed at the side of fisheries , so I will help the local clubs to get rid of them as soon as I can , ’ he added . |
| 7 | Having made all kinds of good resolutions after Ladakh , he fell out of them as soon as he returned to his usual academic haunts in Oxford and New York ; painfully , he tried again . |
| 8 | In Belfast , sure , you can go up to someone 's door mid-evening , knock politely , and then blast the hell out of them as soon as their shadow darkens the frosted glass . |
| 9 | They 've got all this on top of them as well as , say , they may be in a dangerous area . |
| 10 | Froissart says that the English found ‘ plate and gold and silver belts and precious jewels in chests crammed full of them as well as excellent cloaks ’ , and the Black Prince made off with Ring John 's own jewels . |
| 11 | and some of them as well as being housebound , maybe are n't very well and are bedbound |
| 12 | I do n't like any of them and then when you 've seen them all day long it puts you off a bit do n't like none of the |
| 13 | Her identity in the society is as the daughter of somebody , as the wife of somebody and finally as the mother of somebody . |
| 14 | He told us on more than one occasion that he could not himself contemplate coming down from the House of Lords and denuding it of himself as well as its leader . |
| 15 | It is much easier to talk about something or explain if you have it in front of you and even though the listener can not actually see it you will be able to paint a mental picture for him . |
| 16 | ‘ A lot of the record , ’ Rowland sighs , ‘ is about other people 's perceptions of you and how if enough people treat you in a certain way that 's what you become after a while . |
| 17 | Suppose , first , that the other player is also Tit for Tat ( remember that each strategy played against copies of itself as well as against the other 14 ) . |
| 18 | All she had to do was tack together her shattered composure , offer a few polite words — and get rid of him as soon as possibe . |
| 19 | ‘ Ruth was a pal of mine as well as a daughter , ’ she said . |
| 20 | In a sense , this was a line which had been followed by John Hunter ; but his heirs in Britain had not pursued it , partly because of a national aversion to the vivisection which seemed a necessary part of it and partly because it seemed materialistic . |
| 21 | and Ruth says I commit myself to him , he will now be my god , and therefore your people will be my people , your home will be my home , your destiny will be my destiny the way is clear , she makes that greatest decision of her life , a decision that will affect the whole of her life but its not as say a life decision is a commitment now , we , we , we are always confronted , day after day we are confronted to make decisions , some of you make decisions and were not too committed about them , and if things alter they will change our minds , not just a ladies prerogative to change her mind , men do it as well and things happen and we think oh no well , I wo n't go through with that I 'll change my mind before its too late , but here Ruth she is not just making a decision , she is making a total commitment , a commitment that is worth time of the whole of her life , to promised to be loyal to de to Naomi and her deceased husband , she promises loyalty to Naomi 's race and the people of god , but above all she acknowledge 's Naomi 's god and her willingness to follow him to the end , you know this , how she finishes of this commitment where you die I will die its to the end its to the end of my life , I will not walk out of it and even after you 've gone mother in law , even after you are dead I am still committed to that decision , this decision I am making today where you die I will die , there I will be buried , and here she sorts of puts this solemn vow to this commitment , thus may the lord to do me and worse if any thing but death parts you and me . |
| 22 | What half of it or more than half or ? |
| 23 | That is why people are attracted to horror books , because it makes us feel part of the action for a little time but yet we can get out of it as soon as we desire . |
| 24 | as , as , it 's the choice aspect of it as well as the sort of , if there was an audio description would you go and you know |
| 25 | It 's a battle every time Kathleen wants to go out with me , with that brother of hers as well as her mother . ’ |
| 26 | He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again . |
| 27 | But it does , and the remedy lies partly in the hands of each one of us as well as in the hands of governments and large industries throughout the world . |