Example sentences of "of [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yellow-like in colour it sort of floated in the air . |
| 2 | I stop in front of the shop and look inside with my forehead sort of pressed against the glass . |
| 3 | The defeat of Flown in the Smurfit Champion Hurdle proved costly for many punters . |
| 4 | Have you ever of heard of the Stamp Bug Club ? |
| 5 | She misjudged it , she should of rung on the Friday . |
| 6 | But it it 's sort of built into the ground apparently so that it 'd be pretty low down . |
| 7 | An inglenook , Oh I think it had been a place a sort of built off the fireplace . |
| 8 | Because the oil would attract dust and the d oil dries up and the leaves the dust deposits sort of caked inside the lock , and it will clog it up . |
| 9 | now my Lord , your Lordship would of seen from the case and now from the continental television case , both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal , that where a reference is to be made the court that is marking the reference , if , what is sort to be done is either to challenge a British statute or in the case of er , er the red hot Dutch case , of course with the statute , er something which er it involves a ministerial decision , but in either of those instances the court has got to decide in the interim whether or not the statute or measure should remain in force and there is the priority of public policy as indicated in er Lord er speech referred to both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal in continental television in er maintaining the law in force and a , a bonus has to be faced by the person seeking discipline from the law to show us a sufficiently strong case to justify the er , er , the suspension of the law in the interim . |
| 10 | It was one year she could of done without the invitation though is n't it ? , if she , if she wanted her other friends and Neil . |
| 11 | I think that 's , I mean I think that 's why the , the two interesting ends of the U K press are the tabloid end , because it looks , it looks as if it 's sort of forged in the heat of hot metal and steaminess and erm the top end and things like the Express and The Mail seem to be entirely flabby in the middle . |
| 12 | I 've sort of forgot about the puddings there 's blackcurrant torte up there , can you see ? |
| 13 | Could of died in the van . |
| 14 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 15 | And if had n't of got on the phone and sort of made a song and dance about it , and told one or two things , and said one or two things they come up with a bit more money , but again you have to lie through your teeth to get back what you 're really entitled to ! |
| 16 | so , I could n't of got out the way if I 'd of wanted to , cos I was about that much from the curb , I thought he 's |
| 17 | ‘ I 've sort of had in the past . ’ |
| 18 | Now I would say to you , without fear or favour , that the only people recruited in that period of my appointment that I would not of had in the Pathfinder Force were people that came in through some rather dubious trap-door . |
| 19 | I think the key point is Yeltsin , like Gorbachev , unlike the coup leaders is part of a very privileged elite in the Soviet Union and the difference is that to express the erm , you know trying to put them , advance themselves in society at the expense of the rest of Soviet 's society , applicable difference is erm much more inventive and sort of packed on the end to justify er that , that the moves they are making , I mean at , you know like I say that can be seen in the very democratic step that Yeltsin 's been taking since he 's been the Russian president . |
| 20 | Er and I well remember er even as early as nineteen nineteen the election which took place immediately after world war one , I remember being er sort of dragged round the streets , you know , er I think it was enjoyable , I do n't know er by my mother , er attending these street meetings , er I I I very well remember it because I had a a a new coat , a new coat for for er for this particular venture , and er the two things you know are fairly deep in my memory . |
| 21 | And when she jumped up again , the chair sort of stuck to the seat of those awful green breeches she wears and came up with her for a few seconds until the thick syrup slowly came unstuck . |
| 22 | I would like to acknowledge Norman 's excellence because the Garrick was sort of stuck in the past for a long time box set imitation stuff and Norman has sort of revitalized it made it extremely professional and it really did make a difference to the performances and I 'd like |
| 23 | I should of gone through the book to find that , put some money on it because if she had Victoria as well , I thought about Victoria and er of course I did n't know about Eugene I do n't read , but it 's in the book |
| 24 | If you were it probably be a bit different than it actually is dad said to me once that if he , that if he 'd like been in charge of it we 'd of gone to the Leeds and not St Augustine 's |
| 25 | and I suppose I should of gone off the Thursday night |
| 26 | It is not prurient but cruel , hip and disturbingly beautiful , intimate and playfully referential , as in Thomas and Dovana , where a naked black man and a ball-gowned white woman are caught , dancing , in a pose that both mocks and reveres the myths and fears of Gone with the Wind . |
| 27 | The love scenes between Stowe and Day-Lewis are vibrant and passionate with the kind of crackling screen chemistry reminiscent of Gone With The Wind 's Gable and Leigh . |
| 28 | The part was originally taken by Vivien Leigh in the 1939 film of Gone With The Wind — the most successful film ever made . |
| 29 | ‘ We had to destroy our copy of Gone with the Wind , criticised as decadent and encouraging sexual promiscuity . |
| 30 | On Creag a'Bhancair , Glen Coe , freshly graduated Doctor Grant Farquhar , with assistance from Gary Latter , climbed Up With The Sun — a line that starts next to Uncertain Emotions the heads up and right to the remaining peg on Risk Business , follows that route to its belay and then boldly climbs the arête left of Gone With The Wind crux to belay as for Carnivore . |