Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not part of my plan to make a detour via Chastlecombe , but since you wo n't talk to me on the phone I did n't have much choice . |
| 2 | Miss Karafistan said : ‘ Two of my friends held a 24-hour sponsored ‘ stay awake ’ . |
| 3 | It is for me cos of my brain goes a bit |
| 4 | Signe brought me coffee in a pot with a felt cover that had eyes and a nose , then she sat on the edge of my bed holding a silly conversation with the felt cover while I drank my coffee . |
| 5 | For me , the forest of my village contained a lot of secret and mysterious things . |
| 6 | I ran out of printed business cards over a year ago , and I 've now run out of my stock of the blank cards ( which in view of my handwriting have a rather negative impact in any case ) . |
| 7 | I remember when one of my girls had an abortion , I was like a maniac for days after . |
| 8 | And as a kid , you live very Technicolour experiences , and it all influences how you live the rest of your life , and so since all that horror , I 've spent the major part of my life making a safe place for myself . |
| 9 | But what happened was , if a member of my branch had a complaint , he would come to me as secretary and complain . |
| 10 | I remember putting my foot down when some of my customers took a piece of their sausage as I was weighing it , and after a discerning chew they casually dropped the remaining small piece of chewed hard skin onto the floor of the shop . |
| 11 | A month ago my bank informed me that it had been obliged to arrest £250 of my money to satisfy a court order obtained by sheriff officers . |
| 12 | One of my sows has a litter about three days old . |
| 13 | Or did you pretend not to read it because of my invitation to make a real life together ? |
| 14 | Before I start I actually spend most of my time writing a behavioural measurable etcetera objective . |
| 15 | As part of my training to become a breastfeeding counsellor I recently attended a Study Day on weaning , organized by NCT Rugby branch . |
| 16 | I promised Claudia that my desperate need for a child was a magical , elemental desire , a sunny , smiling commitment to placing myself in time , a responsible appreciation of the ultimate inevitable selflessness of being alive , and acknowledgement of my need to escape a sorry hedonism , a way to face up to the past and accept the future . |
| 17 | One of my characters owns a cafe but I wo n't be seen peeling any spuds . ’ |
| 18 | All the rest of my family inherited a love for the river and its estuary and later on my husband , , and my eldest brother , bought a small sailing boat and we spent many happy and sometimes frightening times on the water . ’ |
| 19 | Christine takes her appearance very seriously : ‘ It 's part of my job to look a notch up , a bit glam . |
| 20 | Yesterday I and a few of my colleagues spent a day 's retreat at Compton Durrville , a Franciscan retreat centre in this diocese . |
| 21 | Any of my colleagues have a number in their mind ? |
| 22 | When one of my teenagers spent a month huddled in the park with a crowd of deadpan Gothic posers , I radiated white-hot hostility . |
| 23 | Daphne : " I would be scared out of my wits to have a giraffe — it 's a wild animal and far too big for our garden ! " |
| 24 | And then we were at Frinton , masses of us , and we always used to go to Frinton in the summer because one of my uncles had a house there and we knew the people who erm dad used to play golf and mother used to knit on the beach , you know . |
| 25 | When Ian Thomson and the current editor of The Ley Hunter , Paul Devereux were doing fieldwork for their book The Ley Hunter 's Companion , they visited the crypt and found that the needle of their compass maintained a strange rhythmic ‘ jigging ’ motion . |
| 26 | Well my free kick , he actually got a touch on that as well , he tipped it onto the post for the free kick yes , but I mean even when he bounced out to Mickey Lewis , one of their defenders got a great block from about two yards out to send it out for the corner , which luckily we scored from the corner , so that we got away with it then . |
| 27 | The Wolff Olins authors commented that the publication of their work represented a ‘ profound cultural change ’ . |
| 28 | Sociologists who lend their names or their work to a particular social policy are engaging in a political act ; they can not escape by saying that the use of their work to justify a particular social policy ( even if they did not advocate that policy ) is not their concern . |
| 29 | Full time finished with the score at 1–1 and sudden death extra time began with Woodmill seemingly well in control until one of their players conceded a foul off the ball . |
| 30 | The Boards ' own contracting services and the customer canvassing activities of their salesmen played a part in remedying this situation ; and in most new houses ‘ ring ’ mains , with a range of socket outlets and the new standard 13 amp fused plugs , became the norm . |