Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 No matter how I tried to explain , he could n't see how the odd fifty pound note or bottle of whisky he spread around contributed to that image .
2 Once the eagles had got used to the return of Minch they settled down for the summer months .
3 Part of Keith 's interest in the documentary style of photography he excels in was , perhaps , further fuelled by the amount of time he has , over the years , spent in part-time social work which has given him access to various kinds of care units .
4 And of course they go up here beautiful and I was going to take this apple and they 're all gon na fall and I got to that , Jesus it just about .
5 And me mother , she lived at , that 's not far from Peterborough , and she er Me father used to go to this here farm , me mother lived , and of course they got in with each other , then they got married and then they wanted to buy a caravan .
6 The three old miners considered that it was intended to carry out this operation a little before the smelt houses " left off " and of course they left off by persuasion of the Parliamentary forces , violent or otherwise .
7 And of course they danced on till morning .
8 Of course we go back an awful long way do n't we ?
9 Anyway , we and of course we gets up the line at the and then I got a touch of some sunstroke .
10 And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ?
11 Of course he finished up in the pit w in with his eyesight .
12 And er of course he went in , he was real regimental , again he 'd been an old soldier .
13 You know , and I I , and of course He came back and he and he bought a ticket .
14 But of course he came out with his usual dry diatribe of er not enough Government cash .
15 Of course he goes on like this because he 's jealous , ’ said John , when he and Ianthe were alone .
16 And of course he goes in and the horse drops in the far side of the wee barn , and er Old goes in with his dram and he dips it into the horse trough you ken , and he turns you ken with his regimental ,
17 he was in bed with her and she and no she pushed her husband and of course he turned over naturally , he were n't , he did n't know and she pushed him again and he tied them up there , took all their jewellery off of them
18 But of course he comes up Take the bloody l !
19 Well , of course you go over with it , you 're inside it , see .
20 Erm , now what you do with this , these sections is of course you build up information over time .
21 But of course it turns out that the blithe estivant was only planning what he doubtless terms a Weekend Break .
22 Of course it turned out not to be a Gainsborough , in spite of what Evans or Owens had said .
23 Now there are occasionally criticisms from members that there is too much concentration on the elite end of sport in the Sports Federation in this instance the R Y A but what is important about the is an effort to produce a very high standard as a finished product so to speak to go to the Olympics but it also helps to concentrate minds on the bit that is missing before and help to recycle everybody 's concentration into the training area and Rod has just been talking about the year of youth and of course it follows on very naturally in a post- olympic year to launch that year of youth .
24 That was very interesting and I thought a good write up of and the things that he did , there to survive the World War Two and of course I go back to when the crews were formed and we flew together training at Pyo Texas and at er Dallasburgh , Tennessee and then from there went overseas , we went to er Scotville , Illinois and picked up new planes in Petermover and it was , we went to Stagen area .
25 That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off .
26 And er and then er of course I went back to me mother after me grandmother died , I went to me mother and er mind you when I was th young there was a lot of poverty about you know there was er no security pay and no er and you could n't get any money from anywhere or anything like that you know and er so it used to er had to do the best you can .
27 Of course I came down to earth on my next round .
28 Of course I worry about that because I 'm a human being , but that can make you paralysed .
29 And of course I carried on , carried on .
30 well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice
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