Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be impertinent of me to write of Zuckerman . |
| 2 | Privatization has achieved better ways of running the transport industries and there is today no serious movement in any of them to return to state control . |
| 3 | Amdahl Corp is cutting 9% of its staff worldwide , 600 of them to go in California , and will take a hit of between $15m and $20m against figures to cover it . |
| 4 | She had chosen just five to start with , most of them to do with children , which seemed appropriate , and the Welsh National Opera , which was also fitting . |
| 5 | You also notice that , because this plot development requires the couple to have been childless , there was clearly no previous necessity for either of them to stay at home . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't see so many people going in the opposite direction now , so I hope that 's a sign that we 've persuaded a few of them to stay in town and watch their local team . ’ |
| 7 | They had discovered that Graham had drawn three false passports , in the names of Michael Green , Miles Grant and Mark Gordon , and used one of them to fly to Beirut . |
| 8 | In fact it was , it was it was required of them to get to Jerusalem at the time of the Passover for example . |
| 9 | This was partly for the reasons discussed in Chapter 3 : more elderly people and medical advances which enabled more of them to benefit from treatments like joint replacement at even more advanced ages . |
| 10 | They ride out by companies , whether it 's hunting or hawking there are always enough of them to make for safety . |
| 11 | It was an impossible transition for many of them to make after years of travel . |
| 12 | I want Marking Time and that three-year-old filly of yours to run at Kempton on Saturday . |
| 13 | Tomorrow she would be fresher , more able to deal with this disconcerting ability of his to disarm at will with a casual smile and a deceiving show of interest . |
| 14 | How much would you be prepared to pay for the two of you to go to Pwllheli by bus and train ? |
| 15 | He said , ‘ It 's nice of you to worry about Marjorie . |
| 16 | ‘ It must be difficult for many of you to come to terms with new services , strange new songs , guitars and so on . |
| 17 | But it 's good of you to help with PANUP when you do n't sympathize . ’ |
| 18 | Though it was foolish of you to enter into correspondence with my patient , it was predictable that you would do so , in your troubled state . |
| 19 | ‘ It was good of you to get in touch with me , Simon , ’ she murmured as he hooked down the loft-ladder and she followed him up into the roof space . |
| 20 | As Agnes hurried down the street it came to her that it had been tactless of her to talk about life being dull and with no bright future ; for had they any bright future ? |
| 21 | Indicating with an arrogant lift of his chin that Hilary should go back upstairs , Leo planted himself squarely in front of her to shield from Ryan 's gaze . |
| 22 | It would be uncharacteristic of him to go in mid-term . |
| 23 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |
| 24 | This created the conditions which were to set the pattern of religious justification for strife for centuries to come , and there is little doubt that nearly all , if not all wars in historic time have had some kind of religion or ‘ god ’ put forward as requiring the human race , or parts of it to engage in bloodshed and misery . |
| 25 | Llhuyd paid a shilling to the verger for a portion of it , for it seems it had long been the practice to saw off portions of it to sell to pilgrims probably an early example of Welsh private enterprise . |
| 26 | Where the term breached is a less important term , a warranty , breach merely entitles the victim of it to sue for damages and does not allow the victim to end the contract . |
| 27 | I mean at Stra Stradbroke are now doing a half price and of course we , we only pay , for all of us to swim on Sunday I think it was two forty something . |
| 28 | Well that would enable us to go to pic one of us to go to pictures and get a penny bag of sweets , or a pennyworth of fruits , or a pennyworth of stale buns . |
| 29 | Borland wants the rest of us to stick with Paradox and like it ( and we do ) , so most of the improvements in version 1.5 are for the pros . |
| 30 | So I also want to thank you very deeply from the innermost parts of my heart , for having given an opportunity for some of us to work in Britain to have accepted us and worked with us to build the solidarity movement that brought the apartheid regime to its knees . |