Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun pl] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 2 | I took the advice of my lawyers not to accept the £10,000 offered by the Mirror . |
| 3 | ‘ I have informed the editors of each of my magazines accordingly to give you a mention . ’ |
| 4 | So they send one of their servants down to force it open , but he never comes back . |
| 5 | MORE than 140 angry Liverpool City Council tenants travelled to Westminster to lobby MPs over moves to put the management of their homes out to tender . |
| 6 | And Singh ( 1977 ) , who has been an important protagonist in the debate over deindustrialization , defines it in terms of the economy 's ability to sell enough of its products abroad to pay for the nation 's import requirements , and to do these things while maintaining ‘ socially acceptable levels of output , employment and the exchange rate ’ ( p. 125 ) . |
| 7 | Nigel was looking forward to the occasion and Gina had promised to be especially nice and polite as long as she could have one of her friends there to make up a foursome . |
| 8 | Leaving the larger part of his forces behind to maintain the blockade of Pons he marched north past Cognac and laid siege to Richemont . |
| 9 | But his mature convictions were the effect of a long organised retreat from the simple dualities of youthful Marxism — capitalism against socialism , bourgeois against prole — and the first of his books ever to see print , Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ) , had been emphatic that Marxist analysis fails to correspond to observed experience , the gradations insisted on by the kitchen-staff of a Parisian hotel or the destitute of an English doss-house being there because the poor want them to be there and not by compulsion . |
| 10 | Vlad , denying the charges , told the court that he had instructed one of his colleagues not to open fire . |
| 11 | He makes one final offer , to leave some of his men behind to escort Jacob and his party on their way . |
| 12 | So , if you are not aware of your environment and purposeful in your movements you may be off balance ; this will cause many of your muscles needlessly to work harder . |
| 13 | We do n't force any of our residents here to do anything they do n't want to do . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We drummed it in to all three of our children not to go off with strangers and Johanna was sensible enough to listen , ’ said Robert . |