Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 2 | When I think of me days of pain and sufferin' here , and how I 've kept cheerful and 'elpful so as not to be a burden , as well as givin' you the benefit of me company so that you could 'ave someone to talk to , well , it 's a shock to me to find you lazin' about with a gypsy woman on your lap . |
| 3 | He used a couple of them bits before if that 's all the same to you . |
| 4 | Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job . |
| 5 | MGM , Fox , Warner and RKO made a substantial number of films out of London , many of them spectaculars rather than authentically British productions , and a number of producers like Albert ( ‘ Cubby ’ ) Broccoli and Sam Spiegel moved from America to the UK . |
| 6 | However , I prefer to do things about the house out of the goodness of my heart rather than on request and consider making a little tut noise with the tip of my tongue behind my top teeth . |
| 7 | I did n't tell him how she had caught hold of my hair again when I was reaching under the bed . |
| 8 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not sure of my plan yet but whatever it is you could help me if you want . ’ |
| 10 | The image of the insect may pass over the edge of my retina rather than the more acute central region . |
| 11 | So I push as much of my stuff over as I can . |
| 12 | I varied the days and the times of my visits so as to catch this resourceful woman at her different occupations , for example making the wild boar and hind sausages , for which she was renowned in the neighbourhood , and the tarts filled with medlars that grew against the wall of her stable . |
| 13 | ‘ I am really concerned about the lives of my brethren here and also really concerned even greater about the lives of all those in this world . ’ |
| 14 | I was so frightened you 'd walk out of my life again that I sank to ignominious depths to keep you close to me . ’ |
| 15 | He added : ‘ I am no less confident of my case today than I was when I was wrongfully dismissed as chief executive on May 14 . ’ |
| 16 | We were being given a marvellous send off by the people there but I was not too sure about the starting pistol that George McGuire was wielding though , maybe I would be put out of my misery sooner than I thought ! |
| 17 | Well I would like to hope that he would take notice of my letter even if I would n't get any support from British Press . |
| 18 | Later I put one on the wall of my study so that I could watch these changes in my appearance . |
| 19 | Maybe the reason for this was that she was vindictively happy not to do anything , and it is the opinion of my sergeant here that she probably hated her husband almost as intensely as the murderer himself did . |
| 20 | I can put the Varsity match out of my mind now and concentrate on improving my international ambitions . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I have always been in touch with the female side of my personality ever since I was a kid . |
| 22 | I stand with my feet about eighteen inches apart , with my left foot forward of my right so that I can easily swivel from the hips from looking parallel to the bank through to facing my ‘ target ’ . |
| 23 | There is a passage in the Mithraic communion which is particularly interesting : ‘ He who shall not eat of my body nor drink of my blood so that he may be one with me and I with him , shall not be saved . ’ |
| 24 | It was the foremost achievement of my career up until then , and it was the greatest feeling I had ever had . |
| 25 | ‘ I am so certain of my place here that I would have resigned anyway , and now I have good reason three times over … my nerve had already failed twice , and could n't do so again … . ’ |
| 26 | I think of my Mother still as the best woman I have ever known . |
| 27 | Given the new ball , I used to turn the front of my trousers over and polish it there . |
| 28 | I met most of my party there because I had flown from Stavanger and they had arrived via Oslo , but we all boarded the plane bound for Longyearbyen with great anticipation . |
| 29 | So that 's one of my hobbies , I do n't know whether I 'll be going to Nepal or anywhere like that again , but it , I 've certainly got er lots of happy memories of that experience and er I 've brought erm a photo album erm with some of my pictures in if anyone would like to have a look |
| 30 | Each of the catechists must be in touch with their own life experience , and in particular the helper catechists need to know something of the life history of their friends so that a real historical event can be shared when it comes to the time for each one to share parts of their personal story — for that is where God speaks to each one of us . |