Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I heard the words I knew they were wrong , but could n't for the life of me remember the dolmen 's proper name . |
| 2 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 3 | He caught sight of me descending the rue de Fleuve . |
| 4 | It was n't very smart of me to upset the guy in the first place . |
| 5 | I mean , I thought she 'd be more inclined to help me if she had this image of me tramping the streets for weeks on end … ’ |
| 6 | In front of me sat the smartest and most alert looking person I had ever seen in my life . |
| 7 | I ca n't for the love of me understand the leadership of all the unions that allowed , we do n't even get enough holidays of what they get on the continent , we should be asking for more , not taking them off us or putting it in October to celebrate Nelson and Trafalgar because I could n't give a monkey for 'em . |
| 8 | In view of what I am about to relate , it would not be proper of me to identify the manoeuvre any more precisely , though you may well guess which one I am alluding to if I say that it caused something of an uproar at the time , adding significantly to the controversy the conflict as a whole was attracting . |
| 9 | My legs are stiff with inactivity and cold and my breath freezes in front of me to obscure the view . |
| 10 | Certainly part of me won the 1964 Open . ’ |
| 11 | All of them take the working actors ' problems into account and attempt to create classes which can make free hours both disciplined and profitable . |
| 12 | Both of them take the present sexual division of labour as given and understand that this has important implications for women in their search for an income . |
| 13 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 14 | It is natural to ask … why it is that countries have Constitutions , why most of them make the Constitution superior to the ordinary law , and , further , why Britain , at any rate , has no Constitution , in this sense , at all . |
| 15 | ‘ Neither of them fits the picture of a proper mother . ’ |
| 16 | Darci Alves confessed to sole responsibility , in what was seen as an attempt to get his father acquitted , but a key prosecution witness , Genesio Ferreira da Silva , 15 , a former employee and relative of the Alves family , stated that he had overheard both of them plotting the murder and that they had celebrated its successful execution with a barbecue . |
| 17 | and they all , one week one of them does the |
| 18 | All of them know the rules . |
| 19 | Because the 1980s in the UK was a very favourable period for customers , UK retailers did n't see those developments : most of them spent the 1980s massaging their profits and margins , which they euphemistically called ‘ adding value ’ ’ . |
| 20 | But Katherine also realized that the longer ti took , the more chance there was of them leaving the country . |
| 21 | Neither of them understood the words but the music represented all that was fair and just . |
| 22 | By this stage , many of them reflected the growing importance of the classical movement , depicting their subjects in classical settings , surrounded by symbolic fruits , flowers , and urns . |
| 23 | It spread its wings again , and the heavy dark beating of them filled the air . |
| 24 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 25 | This was the traditional mooring place for dahabeeyahs and in the old days , before Mr Cook had come with his steamers , there would have been over two hundred of them nudging the bank . |
| 26 | Alastair and Flora came quite often and the four of them enjoyed the luxury of being totally at ease . |
| 27 | He was , it appears , neither rapacious nor peremptory , no ‘ for kicks ’ , no ‘ wham bam , thank you , mam ! ’ — he tried to make sure both of them enjoyed the time ; and he was fun . |
| 28 | Of these , half had already been working alone the lines advocated , and although some of them enjoyed the reassurance of seeing classroom practice like their own being commended to others , several expressed the view that such an experience did not merit time away from their classes . |
| 29 | Had any of them crossed the road on their own . |
| 30 | In the case of credit , it has been suggested that even if barely one in three consumers is aware of credit costs , and even if only a few of them use the information to shop around actively , lenders might compete with lower rates as a result . |