Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fowler and Gower held him up for a while with 91 for the third wicket , but by the close of play he had two more — including a caught and bowled — and on Monday morning , cutting down his run-up , he polished off the tail to finish with 7 for 53 . |
| 2 | This terminological ambiguity symbolizes a basic contradiction embodied in the whole process of change which followed 1868 , a running tension between those who looked back and sought to revive what they saw as the best in Japanese tradition in the face of a Western onslaught , and those who looked to the future and were prepared to accommodate the values and techniques of their competitors , if only to compete effectively with them . |
| 3 | For the educated mother in particular , it took a great deal of courage to reject a system of upbringing which combined quasi-religious appeals to ‘ duty ’ and ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ goodness ’ with a claim to be based on the rational attitudes which she herself , as a ‘ modern ’ woman , was supposed to have embraced . |
| 4 | Allied with the servants of the four powers of Chaos they seemed unstoppable . |
| 5 | We looked in some detail at some aspects of protection which included certain kinds of technical and formal performance , the indirect handling of painful subjects and projection , the latter including some aspects of the teacher 's most flexible strategy , teacher-in-role . |
| 6 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |
| 7 | These settlements felt at least as detached from England as the Massachusetts Bay Company , and of course they had less of a legal foundation , because they had no charters of their own . |
| 8 | Of course they had some value , in an informal way , as precedents , but the precedent here might easily be not that non dubito is now admissible , but that some relaxation of wording is allowed where family property expectations are involved . |
| 9 | Of course they got used to it , just as they got used to the closing of the railway , the death of the last squire , the demolition of the hall , the theft of the common land . |
| 10 | And of course they closed all the night classes , did n't they ? |
| 11 | In the premier league it 's West Ham against Swindon at Upton Park … last season of course they faced each other in the first division … in London Town came out on top and it was this win that sparked their promotion run … so let's hope it 's lucky for them again |
| 12 | Erm but of course they did other work you know , which was of a general character . |
| 13 | Of course they helped one another . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course we knew that . |
| 15 | The most salient difference between these outer-city informants and the inner-city ones is not linguistic , but social , and of course we knew this . |
| 16 | And of course we searched each for the other 's books . |
| 17 | Well when we came here of course we had certain furniture and we just sort of er , er and we , I do n't know what other people did , we just erm furnished a room at a time until we got |
| 18 | On the entertainments side er , last year of course we had that one-off benefit with not having to absorb the first quarter 's loss and this year the er first quarter was pretty disastrous because we had an er er an er amalgamation of , of A the Gulf War B the recession and in London I R A bombing and that really stopped tourists coming to London from overseas and from the rest of the U K. But I 'm pleased to say that er we , we 're coming back very strongly and for instance in July at virtually all of our centres attendances were either up to last year very nearl very nearly up to last year or ahead of last year and er at Chessington our revenue was thirteen and a half percent up on last year which I think justifies our investment there . |
| 19 | and they 've done ever so well cos they did all Cos of course we had fine whether last week , they got everything done , and then it poured at the weekend but they were n't there , and now they 're back on site the weather 's cheered up again . |
| 20 | So of course we got emotional , and if it looks real then that is great , that is the way it should be . |
| 21 | Well of course we did all that too , but we also went around with Oliver . |
| 22 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |
| 23 | Jasper had cut in to say that of course he understood this : " Everyone did . " |
| 24 | But she just bash it out of it and it 'd hit his face and of course he went mad then . |
| 25 | Of course he acquired some better habits , such as that great liking for poetry and music . |
| 26 | My brother was born in Canada so of course he became Canadian or a Blue Noser as they are called . |
| 27 | of course he got all upset so she had to then mess about and try and get him to sleep , which apparently she did |
| 28 | But of course he got half the value of Trafford Hall , which was quarter of a million ? |
| 29 | And then of course he got ill . |
| 30 | Of course he had one of the big ones at the front . |