Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] [vb base] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even diluted like I use it , ’ the mother told him , ‘ it makes a good deal of my hair fall out , so goodness knows what 's going to happen to you . |
| 2 | Most of my leaves drop down and fall in the borders |
| 3 | He 's an older man and maybe an easier since he had me galloping the best of my horses lame over you , Owen . |
| 4 | of my cards face down ? |
| 5 | I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons . |
| 6 | See me with one of my tits cut off , ca n't you , just the excuse for Ted to be off after Betty Ash again . ’ |
| 7 | Any county council that can not find elbow room within a £600 million-plus budget to look after its old people 's homes should stand aside and let some of my colleagues take over . |
| 8 | But I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and decided that maybe I 'd better not say too much in front of the stranger . |
| 9 | Delighted to be helpful , the white cells rub their genes together in glee , and for the rest of their lives curl up in their DNA sleeping bags . |
| 10 | And if they get very famished and very desperate and enough of their mates come out to join them , then how can Sir Robert Peel and his Tories fail to listen when you tell him it 's all because of the Corn Laws ? |
| 11 | A year later Frederick I of Prussia ordered that in future deserters should have their nose and one of their ears cut off and be sent to hard labour for life , while after the Seven Years War a chain of military posts was set up on France 's frontiers to prevent the escape abroad of soldiers fleeing from their units . |
| 12 | She was still so entranced by the timeless atmosphere of their night-time sail back round the island that it was strange to hear Lucy 's familiar voice on the telephone that night . |
| 13 | Most barn owls eat a variety of small mammals and birds every night , and tell-tale remnants of their meal turn up as undigested bone , hair and feather in regurgitated pellets . |
| 14 | They then commandeered a battery operated amplifier and two loudspeakers from the local constituency association , and via the roof of one of their cars set up an excellent PA system . |
| 15 | This is part of their annual tidy up , under the guidance of the St Edmundsbury Borough Council . |
| 16 | Slowly the pressures of its differences bore down on my thinking and decisions , prying open my defences and forcing me to face questions I had not been conscious of before . |
| 17 | If a society lets any considerable number of its members grow up mere children , incapable of being acted on by rational consideration of distant motives , society has itself to blame for the consequences . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , to keep as much of its collection as possible in New York City , the Society is offering other New York institutions the right of first refusal in the purchase of its works put up for sale . |
| 19 | Its top lip begins to extend and grow like some sort of elephant-horse , and the corners of its mouth pull up higher and higher so that its mouth looks longer and longer , as if a heavy-handed rider is pulling mercilessly at it . |
| 20 | She has n't exchanged two civil words with him since we left Kinsai , and the fact that he lets most of her insults pass over his head just makes matters worse . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ She even took this awful villa , it was offered , it was available ; and when I saw that she was firm about not letting any of her friends come out to stay with her , I decided to stay myself . |
| 22 | She hitched the full skirt of her Summer dress up above her knees , and swung her long legs for him to see . |
| 23 | Yet it looks as if that most precious of ladies may be about to be raped — and what is more , by the very group of her countrymen set up to defend her honour and purity . |
| 24 | There was something in his voice that made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up . |
| 25 | and I says then we 'll have to come in the back and all them dishes standing there and , and that 's one thing John hates , if any of his ones come up |
| 26 | Busacher desperately wanted to go home and rest , but he dare n't let any rumours of his frailty get around . |
| 27 | ‘ And the fact that all of his women get on with each other , well , that 's a talent in itself . ’ |
| 28 | The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way . |
| 29 | Having defeated a large Christian force , the Moorish Emir Yusuf orders the heads of his foes cut off and piled in mounds . |
| 30 | Only after that will he turn the remaining details of his zombi control over to us for the final phase on the island . |