Example sentences of "of [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now supposing some family here had a store of such good gold pieces at the end , when the Welsh attack was threatening , they might very well bury it for safety , in the hope of recovering it later . |
| 2 | It 's easy to get carried away by the many tools at your disposal so beware of using them just because they 're there . |
| 3 | A parameter entity is an SGML construct which may be thought of in simple terms as like a variable declaration in a programming language : the effect of using them here is that each base tag set can provide its own specific definition for the constituents of texts , which can , moreover be modified by the user . |
| 4 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 5 | Three children in the North-east were taken into care and their parents and other adults were charged and found guilty of using them sexually in their rituals . |
| 6 | There are not enough — but it is absurd that , under present arrangements , they and others with specialisms have almost no chance of using them directly with other teachers or with children . |
| 7 | The obvious concern is to facilitate capital formation and to channel it into sectors and areas capable of using it most efficiently . |
| 8 | Well erm , children , people with children who do n't know how to behave , or , or at least use your house as a sort of running ground , erm , not living in London , er , er , I have lots of guests that come from London , sort of using it as , as much as one would exercise dogs , and , and let their children r run , like round the house , and then er , I 'm sort of saying things like , oh you 're , you 're very , very sensible not to have decorated until after your son 's older . |
| 9 | Oh yeah , but I mean you can soon sort of make it so that it 's er |
| 10 | I was at the time very concerned , because he was posted almost immediately to North Africa , and there was no chance of helping him forward in the early days of his Christian life . |
| 11 | now when I do n't get them till Wednesday night or Thursday night , I 've got no chance of helping him really |
| 12 | If this was his way of helping her then Maggie did n't think much of it . |
| 13 | How odd , Alec thought , I 've been thinking about her all the time since I came here , trying to think of some way of seeing her again . |
| 14 | I knew Mrs Reed would be there too and I was frightened of seeing her again . |
| 15 | The Marshal could not stop her , and , although I was afraid for her , I was excited at the thought of seeing her again . |
| 16 | After next week there 'll be no chance whatever of seeing her again . ’ |
| 17 | It seemed to Ruth , what her aunt had long suspected , that to part with loved ones while they are still living , with never a hope of seeing them again , was worse than losing them by death . |
| 18 | But even for the sake of seeing them again , I never longed to be back … . |
| 19 | ‘ They are not so appealing that I relish the idea of seeing them again , ’ Murtach retorted . |
| 20 | Instead of seeing them individually in the privacy of his study , he arranged regular ‘ Sharing Jesus ’ evenings to which the baptism families and wedding couples were invited . |
| 21 | ‘ I was probably dreaming of seeing him again somewhere far from here ! ’ |
| 22 | It had been three days since she 'd seen Luke , three days that she 'd spent trying to get him out of her system , but she could n't deny the sudden rush of emotion at the thought of seeing him again . |
| 23 | She tensed up immediately at the prospect of seeing him again , but when she turned right round her heart flipped idiotically in her chest . |
| 24 | She felt a curious leap of apprehension at the thought of seeing him again this morning , after the unthinkable intimacy of last night … |
| 25 | The shock of seeing him again — and in Praia do Carvoeiro ! |
| 26 | Maria demanded rudely , not yet fully recovered from the oddly physical shock of seeing him so unexpectedly . |
| 27 | And why , right now , did the thought of seeing him literally cause her pulse to gallop ? |
| 28 | And then on Monday morning things moved around in his head and he started drinking quite a lot , a ] so for Sam 's sake , to toast the victory of seeing him once more and to say a damn to caution . |
| 29 | It may be a reader of The Guardian today after two years of seeing it now gets it . |
| 30 | ‘ It was the excitement of seeing you again so unexpectedly . ’ |