Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [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 | ‘ It 's taking me to the pin of my collar to keep up in the matter of sheer technical knowledge . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah , but that 's where the other part of my plan comes in . |
| 4 | I laid the sturdy Ministry of Defence plastic mug on the sand and then hopped round to the front of my tent to bring out my dirty washing . |
| 5 | But I thought , sitting there on the side of my bed looking out over the trash-filled street with the sound of the trucks grinding and roaring down the thoroughfare , that He must be something like the sun rising out of the ocean on a cloudless day . |
| 6 | No-one of my generation set out to be a war correspondent , at least not in Europe , because we supposed that previous generations had disposed of all that and that war in Europe , if it were ever to occur again , would be the kind of war that would leave no-one alive to write about it . |
| 7 | Can the price of my holiday go up ? |
| 8 | But her assessment of my ability to stand up and shout in a crisis is pretty much a front . |
| 9 | When I did Beyond The Fringe , I was five foot two and the rest of them were all six foot , and a lot of my comedy came out of me being small . |
| 10 | ‘ My symptoms only became apparent after 18 months — the skin of my bottom broke out in an itchy rash . |
| 11 | And again , elsewhere , she writes : ‘ The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's the third stage of my life to get on with . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't feel like spending the rest of my life waiting around for the parts David Niven turned down , ’ was how he expressed it . |
| 14 | Then it was on to my bike and off to spend the rest of my day banged up with a bunch of sullen , spoilt brats in order to make Clive Phillips even richer than he already was . |
| 15 | When questioned at the time , and for some time afterwards , as to what the novel was ‘ about ’ , I would reply vaguely that it referred to a period in my life in the 1960s , when I was married to a successful pop star and spent much of my time travelling up and down motorways , lulled with anti-depressants and sitting , an immobile non-person , in the back of a sealed , silent and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce . |
| 16 | I lead a very chaotic life and spend a lot of my time running around like a maniac so that keeps me fairly fit . |
| 17 | I was mostly bored by the degree course I was doing and spent more and more of my time skiving off to extra-mural classes in Women 's Studies , which were just beginning to happen , and devouring feminist books . |
| 18 | My first memory is of falling off a rather high bed at the age of three years on the evening that my parents had moved into a house near the top of Hampstead Heath , and of my Father going off on his bicycle to search for a doctor as I had cut my head . |
| 19 | The roof of my cave fell in , and nearly killed me ! |
| 20 | I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons . |
| 21 | The first year of my research made up my pilot study and from that I decided to carry out a full scale research project . |
| 22 | Was that the echo of my whisper wafting around in the darkness ? |
| 23 | The red of my anger bubbled up like the rosy orange juice squeezed by the vendors ' machines in the main street in our village . |
| 24 | Twenty years ago , in all innocence , the occupant of my house stuck up a little fence , 15ft long , inside his own boundary . |
| 25 | When she visited the hostels and goodwill centres or was out on the soup run distributing food and blankets to the homeless on the streets of London , the caring side of her nature came fully into play : " I think something of my mother came back into me . " |
| 26 | ‘ I see it as part of my job to patch up squads and re-organise as best I can . |
| 27 | ‘ I see it as part of my job to patch up squads and to re-organise as best I can . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The little onward-beating heart of my son bashes on through the night , its strong signal being transmitted through and across several layers of pillows . |
| 30 | They are offered smaller discounts than the purchasing moguls of companies , and are viewed with distaste in garages because of their tendency to quibble over bills or wonder whether they really need new tyres . |