Example sentences of "of [verb] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will agree , I think , that parliamentary candidates need a way of cheering themselves up . |
| 2 | I came within an ace of slapping her around . |
| 3 | Instead of slapping me down , as any surgeon could quite reasonably have done in those circumstances , and particularly a surgeon with his reputed bite , he said simply , ‘ Not having seen them , I ca n't truthfully answer you , but from what I 've heard the two in the black car should have a fair chance . |
| 4 | Consider a rebel stretch of human DNA that is capable of snipping itself out of its chromosome , floating freely in the cell , perhaps multiplying itself up into many copies , and then splicing itself into another chromosome . |
| 5 | Instead of rooting them out and replacing them , we can leave them undisturbed until they are intermingled with the new presuppositions of Christian truth which should be the sole foundation of the Christian 's mind . |
| 6 | He tells of one teacher who was interviewed by police for 12 hours , and then suspended from work for six months after one of his pupils accused him of touching her up . |
| 7 | Maybe if you told me , I could kind of suss her out . |
| 8 | What I think would be nice is if , if one or two people from each group came and laid claim to some of these things and we went through them and we sort of read them out loud because it 's a bit hard to read there , and we 'll see what Bob 's view is on this and . |
| 9 | Erm some women tend to have more pitch variation and they 're more emotional so they 're more likely to use encouraging tones er which can sometimes be seen to be slightly patronizing , whereas boys think it 's soppy to be emotional or expressive way , so that if you 're in school and you 're asking people to read out in class , erm a girl would be more likely to be more expressive , whereas a boy would be a little bit more monotonous , and just sort of read it out and not put any emotion into it . |
| 10 | Some adolescents seemed concerned about a lack of knowledge or deficiency in Creole on their own part : For my English oral , last year , I had to read a Patois poem , so I aksed my mum to read it for me , and that 's how I got to , you know , sort of pick it up just for that poem … kept letting her read it over and over again till I get the sound . |
| 11 | They actually give its power in kilowatts , so there 's this obvious equivalence between electrical and mechanical energy , so watts is not an amount of electricity it 's a rate of using it up , it 's a flow rate like gallons per minute . |
| 12 | Kilowatts , rate of using it up , times how many hours you 've used it . |
| 13 | I 've just got ta have to sort of make it up . |
| 14 | When your potential catchment is broader based you have to find additional ways of drawing them in . |
| 15 | and they come to MPs like me to try and find some way of helping themselves out of the dilemma . |
| 16 | In other words , watching the film persuaded me that despite the intricacy of the life-producing process , it is not wrong to think of helping it along in certain ways . |
| 17 | If they want to settle out of court , then it has got to be a really substantial settlement to satisfy these people because er those that have already died , er they entered into the litigation in the hope of seeing it through and making sure that , er if anything did happen to them , their wives and families would be catered for and would be er financially settled . |
| 18 | after that we sort of passed it on to the one next you know what to expect , but if it was down to my mother she 'd never tell you . |
| 19 | As they dismounted it crossed Floy 's mind that the longer they could delay , the better chance Fenella and Caspar had of catching them up . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge . |
| 21 | She knew that even if Miss Clinton had n't had so long a start , her daddy would have little hope of catching her up in his old car . |
| 22 | If it was said in the hope of catching you out you will at least have demonstrated a calm approach and an ability not to panic . |
| 23 | Imperials both , they did not follow the local custom of farming him out to a neighbour . |
| 24 | On the rare occasion that it comes up she kind of laughs it off and says well it was n't really a marriage . |
| 25 | Okay now she 's off really quickly on a reach but she 's oversheeted , she 's got too much power there , she 's sheeting the sail in instead of easing it out until it flaps and then just pulling it in a little . |
| 26 | Since he regarded the crutches as extensions of his arms he had the habit of windmilling them about in moments of excitement . |
| 27 | I knew she had to come to me each time , it was just a case of sticking it out . |
| 28 | And this time instead of speeding it up so we 're whooshing off like a like a bee okay . |
| 29 | I moved up to there , and I want to bring everybody up to my new level , so I sort of drag everybody up , but I always thought it was just the , the inertia effect , you know , that I could n't have a mental and physical and moral energy to last everybody out wh , while they would change effectively . |
| 30 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |