Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have the phone number of my apartment in South Ken ? |
| 2 | This was necessary to me as part of my approach to socialism , for before you can be sure whether you are genuinely in favour of socialism , you have got to decide whether things at present are tolerable or not tolerable , and you have got to take up a definite attitude on the terribly difficult question of class … |
| 3 | In the complex interactions between myself and the countless others with whom I am remotely or directly engaged , my self-awareness and the self-regarding inclinations which it generates may occupy only a small part of my field of awareness , and not for any moral reason ; I feel myself spontaneously pulled towards admiration as well as pride , submission as well as power , masochism as well as sadism , judging myself from other viewpoints as well is judging others from mine . |
| 4 | A quick check confirmed that , looking straight ahead , the threshold would appear where his helmet had been It took a dumbfounded second to realise that this illusion was caused by that blasted periscope , fulfilling its designed job , in the centre of my field of view . |
| 5 | You could not properly take account of my experience of separatism without acknowledging my feelings of being swept away by this sort of fervour . |
| 6 | What of my experience of AI ? |
| 7 | I also had most of my experience with chyluria in London . |
| 8 | In addition , the defendants gave undertakings to the plaintiff , one of which was as follows : Any information which I have access to or knowledge which I acquire arising out of or in the course of my contract of service shall remain confidential and shall not be used by me to obtain any gain , benefit or advantage or profits for myself or for any member of my family or connected person . |
| 9 | This was the true shape of my sigh at midnight . |
| 10 | So I thought well I 'll carry one of these for when I 'm going out in my car to which , you know , and if somebody does come up to me I can use it in a positive manner while in a split second time for me , hopefully beca , cos of my range of work |
| 11 | ‘ But tell me , why do you disapprove so strongly of my choice of leisure pursuits ? ’ |
| 12 | The experiments of Dr O'Shaughnessy and others during the cholera of 1831–2 show that the amount of water in the blood was very much diminished in proportion to the solid constituents , as also were the salts Well , the basis of my treatment of cholera is quite simply to try to restore the fluid and salts which have been lost from the blood , by injecting solutions of carbonate of soda or phosphate of soda into the blood vessels . |
| 13 | And that was the purpose of my digression from anthropology to the sociology of monetary exchange . |
| 14 | When visiting a foreign country , for example , I may feel that I have reason to obey its laws on the ground that if I do not I may bring the reputation of my university into disrepute . |
| 15 | Because of my lack of work , I had planned to get through the final exam by doing problems in theoretical physics and avoiding questions that required factual knowledge . |
| 16 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 17 | ‘ I used to hide under the covers of my bed at night , imagining there were dragons out there ; in the room when the light was out , when there was nobody else there . |
| 18 | With publicity campaigns and the flagrant use of my column by way of promotion , the radio group sold more than a thousand annual $1 memberships . |
| 19 | It was lovely to listen to , one of the treasured memories of my childhood in fact . |
| 20 | And if it 's discovered that I spent most of my childhood in care , then reporters could make enquiries and turn it into a big thing . ’ |
| 21 | What does matter is that this attitude , this adoration , this genuine sense of awe and gentle , honourable respect for womanhood should be placed on record as an accurate indication of my state of mind and pattern of conduct . |
| 22 | ‘ I feel particularly bad about making my wife , Shana , suffer the consequences of my state of mind . |
| 23 | Mala was glowering at me , an angry gaze that could have melted accelsteel , not needing to voice her opinion of my error of judgement . |
| 24 | I enclose some of your forms completed to the best of my ability from information given by parish councillors . |
| 25 | The result in each case had been the conversion of my patient into pork pies and a drastic plummeting of my self-esteem . |
| 26 | I 'm sitting on this step with my tongue bit nearly in half and the top of my head about flush with my shoulders . |
| 27 | You may judge the state of my temper in future by the way I address him . |
| 28 | I was terrified of knocking on the door of the house to ask permission but I was even more terrified of going back and making a fool of myself because of my ignorance on court so I spent the rest of the afternoon skulking behind the sweet peas . ’ |
| 29 | As I near the end of my year in office , I am pleased to report there is no doubt in my mind that we have a very stable Institute which was built on a strong foundation by our predecessors . |
| 30 | In fact none of my year from university has a job , ’ she said despondently . |