Example sentences of "of [pron] [coord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had cleared the small , fetid room , in which five persons lived , of everyone but the girl 's grandmother , who seemed to have some idea of how to help him — the girl 's mother was a defeated , apathetic creature only just over thirty herself . |
| 2 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
| 3 | We were outside the Arms , walking along the pavement past the Bank , Jamie on one side of me and the girl on the other . |
| 4 | When Dennis summoned us to table , I ended up with Karen on one side of me and the computer analyst 's wife on the other . |
| 5 | I look at the dark house in front of me and the screens of tall shrubs and young trees on either side concealing the two neighbouring villas . |
| 6 | What 's going to become of me and the boys , eh ? ’ |
| 7 | I shook my hair back and waved my arms above my head as Pike mopped and mowed in front of me and the band struck up an impromptu tune . |
| 8 | ‘ Marius was thinking of changing his will in favour of me and the baby . ’ |
| 9 | Durance was weary of both of them but the price of their silence was as high as the price of Sabine Jourdain 's . |
| 10 | This did not matter , since it was the topics that counted , not the order of them or the way they were introduced . |
| 11 | In these ways , they force their parents to recognise that they are no longer a mere extension of them or the family , but independent human beings with views and ambitions of their own . |
| 12 | By an amended respondent 's notice the natural mother supported the local authority 's appeal on the grounds advanced by their notice of appeal and further or alternatively sought to contend that the judge ( 1 ) had been wrong in law , fact or both to hear and determine the applications for leave when the mother was not a party to the applications and was not aware of them and the judge had not been apprised properly or at all of her wishes in the matter ; ( 2 ) had acted contrary to the rules of natural justice and to section 10(9) ( d ) ( ii ) of the Act of 1989 ; and ( 3 ) ought to have required the mother to be notified of the application pursuant to rule 4.3(2) ( b ) of the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 , rule 4.4 and Appendix III . |
| 13 | Its vision for society is that of a reconstituted pre-industrial kind of community in which everyone knows who they are , what is expected of them and the kind of values by which they are to live . |
| 14 | Mick made a fuss of them and the girls brought home tins of catfood from the supermarket for them . |
| 15 | Herd animals see themselves as put-upon ; everyone takes advantage of them and the herd is their only chance to stay equal . |
| 16 | She fly-posted the town with photos of them and the caption : ‘ Richard , where are you ? ’ |
| 17 | Unfortunately , she quickly gave up this approach because Gareth kept tugging the mug handle after each drink , spilling lots of ‘ pop ’ over both of them and the floor . |
| 18 | Although I remember him stepping out of them and the sight of his white pants , I felt it was not seemly to observe too closely : otherwise I should have been able to verify the assertion that his underclothes were American but the rest very English . |
| 19 | Owen distrusted castles unless he had had the ordering of them and the garrisoning for a year or more ; there was infinitely more safety in the hills , because the hills were his castle and not another man 's , and could not be betrayed or easily taken by storm . |
| 20 | I 've seen many of those books and reviewed some of them and the moan I 've had is that sometimes they try to be too accurate . |
| 21 | Over this unimaginably ( for humans ) long time , each of the two lineages that branched from that remote ancestor has preserved 305 out of the 306 characters ( on average : it could be that one lineage has preserved all 306 of them and the other has preserved 304 ) . |
| 22 | Perhaps , when we were looking at bungalows , other than the descriptions of them and the pamphlets and they say ooh |
| 23 | Mountain goats may be relatively safe from predators , but they are not totally free of them and the kids are particularly vulnerable . |
| 24 | Few people would dare to refuse them out of a morbid fear of them and the curse a refusal may incur . |
| 25 | In my garden at Wells I have a wonderful well — indeed , there are five of them and the city of Wells derives its name from the five springs in the palace grounds . |
| 26 | ‘ I was staring at it and wishing it to tip and then my eyes went all hot and funny and some sort of power came out of them and the glass just toppled over . ’ |
| 27 | And then they can all be turn Then they 're happy they This is sort of lent if you like , they say donated but think of it as lent , it 's lent its electrons to the fluorines cos it wants to get rid of them and the fluorines wanted to take them so , it makes this nice bond . |
| 28 | But the relief is only temporary because when hormone-dependent cancers are deprived of their hormone supply , sooner or later some cancer cells mutate to become independent of them and the growth of the tumour is resumed . |
| 29 | ‘ I see that Paraguay has offered to take all of them and the Pope is on our side now . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I was making my way over a field to the hives when I ‘ sort of ’ tripped over one of them and the bees came at me , ’ he said . |