Example sentences of "of [adj] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately for Napoleon 's schemes , Fernando proved reluctant and when in the summer of 1869 he contracted a morganatic marriage with a German-born actress , Elisa Hensler , he virtually put himself out of court . |
| 2 | In the Edinburgh District Memoir of 1861 he contributed a list of Silurian and Carboniferous fossils found in the area . |
| 3 | On top of that they have a random check system whereby a number of estates are sampled . |
| 4 | Not Wright — he 's happy with it at his feet wherever he is and on top of that he has a quite phenomenal strike-rate . |
| 5 | On top of that it has a whole life of its own with sports , a nightly disco , live music , and a daily English film . |
| 6 | During the lay up of Venturous I spent a brief interlude in the Solent area evaluating the performance and suitability of a thirty two foot fast motor cruiser Gazelle which had been purchased by the Department as an experiment . |
| 7 | Our pH 16 values are normally 5 to 9 ; I look upon anything above pH 11½ to be bad — that 's from my experience in the laboratory that to get to a pH of 11 is easily done but to get to a pH of 12 you need a dam sight more alkali . |
| 8 | In the early eighteenth century about twenty families lived there , and according to the census of 1801 it had a population of 137 [ Baker , 2 , 720 ] . |
| 9 | At the age of twenty-one he became a captain of his father 's ships and remained at sea until 1818 , acquiring a worldwide knowledge of shipping and navigation . |
| 10 | By the age of twenty-one he had a managerial post in charge of fifteen people . |
| 11 | And because of this we have a choice where to alter the theory when things go wrong at the observational level . |
| 12 | After what seemed like a good twenty minutes of this he took a handful of rice from a gourd at his belt and scattered it over the waters . |
| 13 | Out of this he drew a Cellophane packet . |
| 14 | Yet in spite of this he remained a convinced Catholic , regarding Voltaire and the Encyclopédie as profoundly dangerous . |
| 15 | At the age of 22 she married a farmer and turned her back on showbusiness . |
| 16 | In the summer of 1991 he proposed a new party programme which , in effect , would have brought it much closer into line with a social democratic party , competing with others on Western lines . |
| 17 | At the age of six I compiled a personal magazine every week . |
| 18 | Fortunately , we had past members with vision over the years , and from one of these we inherited a considerable legacy which will give us a firm basis for future work ; an investment which can be used frugally when the occasion demands . |
| 19 | Of these he produced a remarkably large number , in almost all the counties of the region , becoming unrivalled as the leading master builder there and establishing a reputation which extended well beyond it . |
| 20 | At the age of three he received a blow on the head which left him partially deaf for the rest of his life . |
| 21 | In the autumn of 1984 I received a personal letter from Andy Norman . |
| 22 | In the autumn of 1984 I introduced a bill to bring the first pension reforms into effect . |
| 23 | He had become the representative voice of the nation under threat , and in the early months of 1940 he wrote a patriotic poem , " Defence of the Islands " , to accompany an exhibition of British war photographs at the New York World 's Fair . |
| 24 | Lieutenant Roger Courtney joined No. 8 Commando at the same time as Stirling , and during the training period in the latter part of 1940 he organized a small group to train in the Scottish lochs with folding canoes . |
| 25 | When the pope nevertheless steadfastly refused to give way , Henry intensified his attack on the church ; in the summer of 1530 he issued a charge of praemunire against fifteen clerics , including the four bishops who had supported Catherine , on the grounds that they had aided Wolsey in the exercise of his legatine authority and thereby given support to papal jurisdiction within his realm . |
| 26 | At the age of fourteen he obtained a scholarship to Stowe School which had only been in existence six years . |
| 27 | First of all we offer a good a service as possible , we try to get to know the individuals , and help them and give them individual advice . |
| 28 | He wanted to be outside , but most of all he wanted a hunter 's advantage , another look . |
| 29 | I do n't have a social life , I do n't go out a lot , because first of all I have a lot of work to do . |
| 30 | But if you do n't tell them that first of all you want a contract . |