Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a fee of whisky he will help mortals caught in Fairyland to escape , or show them antidotes to spells and curses . |
| 2 | Whilst we did not expect the same standard of play we should have expected something better . |
| 3 | I did n't know what kind of play she might have been pulling . |
| 4 | What type of company/co-operative you should form . |
| 5 | By way of correction I can offer only the thought that the word comprimat in the third line of Musae Jovis is a jussive subjunctive ( ‘ let … crush ’ ) , not an indicative ( ‘ crushes ’ ) . |
| 6 | Together with the right kind of support we could have fun together and achieve so much for ourselves and our diocese . |
| 7 | There are few restrictions on the type of support we can offer but the important feature is the idea ; once that is accepted we will help the researcher in whatever way may be appropriate to bring his idea to fruition . |
| 8 | When considering an offer of a job in the community it is worth asking a few questions about the day to day management of the service , and the kind of support you can expect to get from your colleagues . |
| 9 | Grief is not only a reaction , though , it is a process , so your bereaved parent will need your help through all its various stages of numbness , yearning , quiet or vocal distress , anxiety , depression and adjustment to her new situation ; and the way she behaves during the grief process will depend very much on her personality type , her previous life experiences and the strength of the tie that has been severed , as well as the amount of support you can give her . |
| 10 | ‘ So you need every bit of support you can get . |
| 11 | When we defend ourselves too rigidly against threatening aspects of change we can precipitate the very situations we seek to avert . |
| 12 | Mrs Johnson said : ‘ We left the bottle on a table in the communal lounge and whenever a resident had a pocketful of change they would put it in . |
| 13 | With the advent of videodisc we can expect to see an increase in video training materials and information databases of various kinds . |
| 14 | We had been advised that if we laid on a couple of bottles of champagne he might stay and chat for a while after the show . |
| 15 | The Australian honey-guide is so fond of hair it will pluck it straight from a horse 's back or even a human 's head . |
| 16 | But rest assured : in the longer term , giving reasons will certainly foster their compliance and , most important , the sort of reliability you can depend upon even when you are not there to keep an eye on things . |
| 17 | Tell the customer the total cost of the purchase and ask method of payment she will use ‘ How would you like to pay for the saucepans ? ’ |
| 18 | They issue an er they issue an annuity , which is erm er if you 're not sure what an annuity is , this is a temporary annuity , and they might say in the case of Miss they might say well what about a ten year annuity ? |
| 19 | Returning to Z we see that to prove the above assertion of coincidence we must show : ( i ) that every irreducible element of Z is necessarily a prime element ; and ( ii ) that every prime element of Z is necessarily irreducible . |
| 20 | ‘ And in that sort of story it 'd have to be their own fault . ’ |
| 21 | If the Poltergeist can be driven out of the chamber by a Zone of Sanctuary it will flee , as its bounded area is the whole Tower . |
| 22 | If the Headmaster walks in and there 's a bit of chaos I can tell him why it 's a mess and it does n't bother me . |
| 23 | All that was changing when Diane Keaton appeared in Annie Hall , looking no more than passably pleasant and sporting the sort of garb you could find in any Oxfam shop . |
| 24 | He has great potential to be a world champion , and he will be the kind of driver we would like to retain his services through the next possible two , three years , so it 's a longer term situation with him . |
| 25 | By the time the Warriors had reached the objective , the riflemen in the back had been sufficiently aware of what was going on around them to know that their own survival would depend on the spirit of fight they could produce . |
| 26 | At such moments participants find their ‘ public ’ voice and do not need the kind of protection they may have relied on earlier . |
| 27 | Fans must not seek consolation from comments such as ‘ … we dominated but did n't score … ’ or ‘ … with a bit of luck we 'll do better … ’ . |
| 28 | But with a bit of luck we 'll know tomorrow . |
| 29 | ‘ With a bit of luck we should get picked for the Russian ship tomorrow Bill . ’ |
| 30 | With a bit of luck they 'll wipe each other off the face of Asia . ’ |