Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the hero takes the castrato to be a woman and makes a sculpture of him/her in female form , castration is linked to problems of representation . |
| 2 | I have always been exclusively attracted to girls and wimmin in any sexual or deep emotional way ; it has always been a part of me as grey eyes or dark hair . |
| 3 | Suddenly , out of a dark doorway , a figure stepped and stood in front of me with open arms . |
| 4 | They would take the mickey out of me with sickening enthusiasm . |
| 5 | No , I had decided that whatever I washoping to do , I was going to do on my own so if anyone was going to be proud of me they were going to be proud of me for legitimate reasons . |
| 6 | Blind with rage : I know why they say blind — I could n't see him , I could n't see anything — I did n't think what to say , I was just saying it , shouting it , fury pouring out of me like hot tar — my hands were on my hips and clinging on so as to stop myself tearing his straggly hair out , gouging his eyes out , strangling him till his voice went gurgle-croak and his body went limp . |
| 7 | ‘ The questions that are asked of me by Asian people sometimes are the questions that are asked of Karim when he portrays Changez as a characters in his own play , ’ he explains . |
| 8 | Shortly afterwards we returned to English prep schools , where I quickly had my French beaten out of me in French grammar classes , and where Lorne responded by continuing to be unable to talk or , rather , to speak in any known language , for he would hold forth volubly in a tongue uniquely his own . |
| 9 | The newspaper group plans to shed 33 jobs , about 25 of them through compulsory redundancy , leaving it with 400 staff to service the Daily and Sunday Telegraph . |
| 10 | More than 75 per cent of the equity is in the hands of professional investors , many of them through Swiss nominee names . |
| 11 | The closures are mainly smaller , less profitable branches or those with overlapping parishes : 150 full-time and 93 part-time staff will lose their jobs , some of them through voluntary redundancy and early retirement . |
| 12 | Dentists claim that Government plans to cut their NHS fees will force most if not all of them into private practice . |
| 13 | He recalled that he had led the Party for thirteen years , nearly eight of them as Prime Minister . |
| 14 | It 's a rather bad analogy , but I like to think of them as first-division football teams with their own particular qualities . |
| 15 | At one moment we shall be talking in terms of billions of years and billions of light years ; at the next we shall focus on events that are of importance for only billionths of a second involving particles so small that it is misleading to think of them as material objects . |
| 16 | Politically speaking the issue of local autonomy and sovereignty scarcely ever arose : people recognized popular committees as valuable means of access to resources ; in their democratic aspect most educated Libyans thought of them as rhetorical devices , not really conferring power on a community , but representing curious elaborations of ideology in what was really a simple and straightforward problem of administration of services . |
| 17 | More than 50 women work at Long Lartin prison near Evesham in Worcestershire , 17 of them as uniformed prison officers . |
| 18 | Braudel himself seems to think of them as brief episodes without significant consequences . |
| 19 | On Sept. 6 the three Baltic Foreign Ministers , A. Saudargas ( Lithuania ) , Janis Jurkans ( Latvia ) and Lennart Merri ( Estonia ) , went to Brussels to present a request for associate membership of the European Communities ( EC ) , which had already formally stated its recognition of them as independent states . |
| 20 | After a time we come to think of them as old friends . ’ |
| 21 | It allows the physical pieces of paper passed around an office to be replaced by electronic images — you can think of them as electronic photographs of the paper pages . |
| 22 | a way of allowing readers to focus just on the appearance of logical objects , but authors to be aware of them as structural entities . |
| 23 | The third was inhabited by small people , half a dozen of them at various times ; of whom Pat Billon , 2-foot 10-inch ( 85-cm ) tall , became the best known and most publicized . |
| 24 | We will discuss some of them at various points in this book . |
| 25 | The meeting of the Central Committee lasted two long days , during which eighty-eight delegates spoke , some of them at great length . |
| 26 | Two of them at New Drove are downstairs and one is an upstairs . |
| 27 | but I 'd never put any of them at Right Back again , Or buy somebody . |
| 28 | CVCP had maintained that ‘ an expansion driven wholly by the recruitment of extra students , many of them at marginal cost , could threaten research ’ , but says that the research funds mean that some universities can ‘ increase their income without recourse to student recruitment alone ’ . |
| 29 | Darling 's mark had been made on his final Test , however , with three catches in England 's first innings , two of them at short leg quite startling . |
| 30 | No doubt the army has lavish stocks of both ; but no capacity has been retained in Britain to make more of them at short notice . |