Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a couple of minutes of this he decided to go back to Elstree . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course at first I just thought it was someone from a boat that had been driven in by the weather . |
| 3 | whether we needed to go back for anything to go in the fridge or freezer If I got this page sort of full by the end of the week , people there were picking out their , they were getting tea bags and coffee and biscuits , you know for two pages full , I 've got one page full and of course with that I could get erm , packet of the Ferrera Roche |
| 4 | ‘ Paheri never once looked at a woman , though of course by thirteen we were hoping to match him . |
| 5 | The purchaser will be negotiating the heads from a position of weakness in that it will know far more about the vendor 's business once the due diligence has been completed . |
| 6 | ‘ The youngsters who visited your trailer were full of enthusiasm for all they had seen and done . |
| 7 | At night a couple of times at fifteen I 'd been terrified . |
| 8 | It differs from the rest of Newham in that it is less typically an inner-city area and rather more middle class with few tower blocks and a higher proportion of owner-occupied housing . |
| 9 | While mayor of Hull in 1795 he presented in person the congratulatory addresses from the Hull Corporation and Trinity House to George III , following the king 's escape from an attack by the London mob protesting against the French wars and the price of bread . |
| 10 | While sheriff of Hull in 1785 he headed a committee set up by the Hull Trinity House to found a navigation school , an establishment which celebrated its bicentenary in 1987 . |
| 11 | For much of the 1970s investment in manufacturing had remained fairly constant , but with the onset of recession in 1979 it declined sharply , making the largest single contribution to the overall fall in GDFCF . |
| 12 | In the terms established earlier this , like the Monadology itself , seems an unsatisfactory account of consciousness in that it ignores the unity principle , for what that is worth . |
| 13 | It would indeed have defined a biological category of criminals , but as an explanation of crime in general it would have been virtually irrelevant . |
| 14 | ‘ I was busy composing a graceful speech of thanks for all you 've done for me . ’ |
| 15 | Section 3 only protects against actions of defamation in that it gives qualified privilege to extracts from any reports protected by sections I and 2 . |
| 16 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
| 17 | Bartlett ( 1958 ) regarded thinking as a form of skill in that it has the characteristics of organising information . |
| 18 | San Gimignano is slightly apart from the other cities of Tuscany in that it seems to have had a relatively small element of hereditary feudal warriors among its citizens or in its contado . |
| 19 | When Elizabeth I came to the throne of England in 1558 she and her government in London ruled less land than her predecessors had done for hundreds of years . |
| 20 | I Admittedly if we stay in the rural districts of England in 1700 we will discover that forty to fifty years is not unrealistic , but old age is rare . |
| 21 | Starting with three 1½ × ¼in strips of ash for each I intended to steam the strips , clamp to the forms for a few days , and then glue and reclamp . |
| 22 | And I thought well it 's going to be awkward to get a piece of wood for that I mean knowing your dad with wood I know Anyhow I said er it 's just the right height for me |
| 23 | First licensed by Bishop Lacey of Exeter in 1436 it was used for special intercession by barren women seeking fertility . |
| 24 | M&A work is different to many other more traditional types of work in that it normally concludes in a completion meeting . |
| 25 | The " question " violates Grice 's maxim of quantity in that it requests information which the captain neither needs , nor is interested in , and implicates not his concern at Anderson 's threats but rather his awareness of the professor 's empty pomposity . |
| 26 | After the death of King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway at the battle of Svold in 999 it had been ruled by Earl Eric of Lade and his brother Swegen under the sovereignty of Cnut 's father ; according to later Scandinavian tradition , Eric married Swegen Forkbeard 's daughter Gytha . |
| 27 | A few months after I joined the Department of Transport in 1979 I was presented with an issue which had baffled governments for well over a hundred years . |
| 28 | While there is undoubtedly a good deal of truth in this it would be wrong from the anti-regulators to assume that investors are unconcerned about the presence of insiders . |
| 29 | These young men represented a different kind of leader from those we have so far considered ; the Burma from which they sprang had been influenced by the West far less than India , and only a tiny middle class had assimilated Western education . |
| 30 | well done , I never can get that word out I stumble with it every time and that gets a signal from the brain that says this is a difficult situation this is something I 'm not used to this is some I it 's very primitive it 's it 's from the days in the jungle or whatever er a fear of fright over absolute it 's fight or flight , and that 's why you start breathing quicker because the blood wants more oxygen because it 's ready to run or to fight because the muscles , it is |