Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I had to , I had to wait for about eight months or was it s six months to get one of my lights fixed but for er other things they were quite quick actually . |
| 2 | Bet me the year of my birth doubled is an odd number . |
| 3 | ROS : ( Hurt , desperately ingratiating ) I-I bet you all the money I 've got the year of my birth doubled is an odd number . |
| 4 | Like Ms Lewis , unfortunately I have also had one of my glassfish infected with whitespot . |
| 5 | Your lordship may see the print of my affection scored across the back of his left hand and wrist , if you care to make him hand you his manor roll tomorrow . |
| 6 | I 'd flown too many missions , seen too many of my friends blown to pieces . |
| 7 | No doubt the thought of my departure added to the strain . |
| 8 | I was still under the influence of my parents compared to my English counterpart and it was a strict influence . |
| 9 | Thus a recent work , The Penitent ( Royal Academy 1991 ) , was based on a drawing of my wife done in 1948 . |
| 10 | Not a week of my childhood passed without some mention of the disaster of 1880 , when a particularly cruel winter laid waste thirty years ’ vegetation . |
| 11 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 12 | I did understand however that my oath to preserve the constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of that nation of which the constitution is the organic law . |
| 13 | ‘ I get most of my paintings done during lunch-times , ’ he says . |
| 14 | I tried to get most of my work done today so that I would not have so much to do on the weekend . |
| 15 | Photos of my mum taken twenty-five years ago could be of me , we look so alike — but she does think I 'm too scruffy . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's quite a chunk of my life spent in darkness , ’ he says . |
| 17 | ‘ I read your review of my article based on your review of my novel derived from Dickens … ’ ' |
| 18 | But I 'm also a Raider and I do n't believe the colour of my skin entered into this decision . ’ |
| 19 | But in this reeking cavern with my hands , face , hair and every pore of my skin impregnated with cottage pie and chips , those birdies seemed far away . |
| 20 | When I 'm off the island during the winter I spend most of my time stuck in front of a computer writing reports . |
| 21 | I attempted desperately to convince myself that what I was experiencing was just a particularly cruel and hateful dream concocted by some part of my mind determined to exact due penalty from my conscience for my having behaved with such despicable lack of grace during the holidays … but failed utterly ; my sub-conscious ' stock of nightmare-paradigms includes nothing so banally twisted as Gav . |
| 22 | There 's a black , uncharted place at the back of my mind labelled ‘ here be dragons ’ . |
| 23 | Necessity being the mother of invention ( and ingenuity ) , the foam mat from the back of my rucksack served as a seat for sliding down the snow , protected from behind by a rope and with an ice-axe to help control . |
| 24 | One of my clients registered at Companies House a company under the name Larry Small Pizza Parlour Limited . |
| 25 | ‘ It has to be the worst year of my career given the expectations I had when it started . |
| 26 | Many of my volunteers commented on how much they enjoyed eating so much fruit and vegetables and how much fitter they felt , so I have no doubt that it is the reduction of fat and the increase in better , healthier food that together helped produce such positive benefits . |
| 27 | I had no independent advice and my son took advantage of my confusion caused by distress . ’ |
| 28 | From the very first day I saw him I began writing poems to him that later grouped themselves into the sequence entitled ‘ Suite Salmantina ’ which , with other poems about Spain , forms the central part of my collection called The Prodigal Son : Poems 1956–1959 . |
| 29 | He recalls how God visited him with sickness , as he does others , and how he suffered a ‘ wyld infirmytie ’ , as everyone knew , that ‘ me owt of my selfe cast and threw ’ . |
| 30 | I was accorded a degree of respect appropriate to a man who had been under arms , which was as well as , after rumours of my predilections spread through the warehouse , there were not many willing to share with me . |