Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you think you could possibly curb your dislike and mistrust of me for that one evening ? |
| 2 | At first I though she had pissed herself , then I saw flowers tumble out of the sky and hit the water ahead of me like some strange rain . |
| 3 | ‘ You have not heard of me from any other person ? ’ |
| 4 | Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’ |
| 5 | In front of me in these three glass beakers are samples of urine taken from three patients . |
| 6 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 7 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks . |
| 8 | And of committee and of sorry a special erm meeting between the four officers that produced minutes to all part and this was one of them about this particular issue , which just just is just to record that Westbourne 's Parish Council 's er views were taken into account . |
| 9 | Apart from one draper and one mercer all were clothiers , some of them worth several hundreds , and one , Thomas Spring of Lavenham , ranked among the richest men in the land with no less than £3,200 . |
| 10 | She had once thought of herself as unique , had been encouraged ( in theory at least ) by her education and by her reading to believe in the individual self , the individual soul , but as she grew older she increasingly questioned these concepts : seeing people perhaps more as flickering impermanent points of light irradiating stretches , intersections , threads , of a vast web , a vast network , which was humanity itself : a web of which much remained dark , apparently but not necessarily unpeopled : peopled by the dark , the unlit , the dim spirits , as yet unknown , the past and the future , the dead , the unborn : and herself , and Brian , and Liz , and Charles , and Esther , and Teddy Lazenby , and Otto and Caroline Werner , and all the rest of them at that bright party , and in these discreet anonymous dark curtained avenues and crescents were but chance and fitful illuminations , chance meetings , chance and unchosen representatives of the thing itself . |
| 11 | I 'm not being one of them at any given time , because that is so stupid . |
| 12 | There are now enough people , especially on the Tory side , with a vested interest in the methodology of politics , many of them at any given time out in the cold , to make the lives of incumbents difficult . |
| 13 | I mean , since it 's Christmas would n't it be a good idea to invoke a Sanity Clause against the entire Cabinet , committing the whole damn lot of them to some underfunded and desperate NHS asylum ? |
| 14 | The observation that a CR may be less likely when the CS is presented in a context other than that used for training is open to a number of explanations , some of them of little theoretical interest . |
| 15 | However , structuralist criticism differs from all of them on some important issues . |
| 16 | Yet here he was , standing in front of them on this distant planet . |
| 17 | We have met many A&R men but we felt we could not talk to most of them on any sensible basis , ’ says Gedge . |
| 18 | And that 's that 's it that 's the pattern for all of them for all those four reactions . |
| 19 | What I am seeking to do is to go and support Conservative candidates up and down the country and I 'm supporting many of them during this local election campaign . |
| 20 | The creature scuttled ahead of them like some small black spider , opened the padlocked door and waved his guests forward . |
| 21 | Today there are some 600,000 Portuguese there , half of them from this small island . |
| 22 | Yeah well there 's rows and rows of them in that big Tesco 's . |
| 23 | It is linguistically unacceptable to apply them except on grounds which would always lead to further application of them in all similar cases . |
| 24 | But experience shows that few companies will budge without vast incentives ; most firms recruit few local people ; some leave when tax holidays end ; and zones work only when there are few of them in any one area . |
| 25 | I found two of them in some old dear 's garden at Cherton ! |
| 26 | And there 's a there 's three of them in this one room in , in the bedroom and they wo n't separate them cos and she , they 're good for each other . |
| 27 | ‘ I was doubtful myself , ’ Maureen admitted , ‘ but I hate to think of you in that awful room . |
| 28 | Yet the glimpse of her on that brief video had n't brought her back with the sharp focus that I craved . |
| 29 | But erm , I have n't seen much of her at all this week , because erm , they 've all been out , I mean , they went up to London to see Miss Saigon , and they were gon na go out for a meal up there , and |
| 30 | Stop thinking of her as another damn computer ! ’ |