Example sentences of "of [verb] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The means of salvaging something of the disposition is to recognize that so far as the daughter has benefited under her father 's will she may be obliged by a trust . |
| 2 | As the previous chapter shows , the development officers were rarely involved at all with those clients if they were in the action samples ; since in no real sense could they be said to have had the opportunity of availing themselves of the action project , they are omitted ( in both action and control samples ) from most of the following analysis . |
| 3 | And to the possibility of seeing something of the Sicilian town . |
| 4 | All the other times were just a way of reminding myself of the realities and provoking you at the same time . |
| 5 | It is often possible , then , to understand and so overcome spelling errors , once you understand why you are making an error and can work out a way of reminding yourself of the correct form . |
| 6 | Oddly , instead of reminding me of Bill , it reminded me of Old Red . |
| 7 | I toyed with the idea of reminding you of all my triumphs , of my prediction of the ‘ 87 stock market crash , of my warnings about the ERM and the dangers of Europe , about … |
| 8 | This is merely another way of reminding you of the technique of repetition examined in the section on Memory . |
| 9 | Much of Muskie 's political fame was earned from his leadership in environmental affairs , which was now being eroded not only by Nixon 's proposals but also by a Ralph Nader report on air pollution which strongly criticized Muskie 's role in the past and just stopped short of accusing him of selling out to industrial polluters ( Lundqvist , 1980 ) . |
| 10 | An arsenal of political treacheries was employed to impede our progress , from the medium-range one of accusing us of lacking the right political perspective , to the more insidious long-range ones of accusing us of divisiveness , bringing men into feminism by speaking about the war in Ireland and , even on one occasion , attempting to show an exhibition — the famous , ‘ Bin Lids and Barricades ’ . |
| 11 | An arsenal of political treacheries was employed to impede our progress , from the medium-range one of accusing us of lacking the right political perspective , to the more insidious long-range ones of accusing us of divisiveness , bringing men into feminism by speaking about the war in Ireland and , even on one occasion , attempting to show an exhibition — the famous , ‘ Bin Lids and Barricades ’ . |
| 12 | Even if you ca n't afford organic produce the benefits of eating plenty of ordinary fresh fruit , vegetables and cereals far outweigh any risks from the chemical residues . |
| 13 | Do n't too , because it 's a very difficult thing to do , attractive though it looks when , instead of producing anything of between sixty and eighty thousand words , all you have got to do is to produce , say , as few as one thousand . |
| 14 | Romana believed the Junta of the Asturias to be ‘ republican ’ in sympathy , and accused it of starving him of supplies . |
| 15 | And then I wonder if another means of acquiring something of a scientific education might not be found . |
| 16 | The former Sunsets band accused Stevens and a record producer , Dave Edmunds , of cheating them of royalty payments from their first album . |
| 17 | At the time of writing none of the other firms is quoted on the Unlisted Securities Market or the Stock Exchange . |
| 18 | If you have n't done that yet do it now because the practice of writing it of actually copying it down is important . |
| 19 | The cud is thoroughly masticated — the jaw can move from side to side as well as up and down — before it is finally passed into the digestive system where the job of extracting everything of nutritive value will be carried out . |
| 20 | We know that in these cases we often do face a real choice of evils and we have to find some way of deciding which of these evils is the worst . |
| 21 | The first is a simple logical point that without some model of how the system might work , there is no way of deciding which of the millions of possible stimuli available to use in testing a particular celt . |
| 22 | The new law will have the advantage that the prosecution will not be in the present difficulty ( referred to in paragraph 19 ) of deciding which of two mutually exclusive offences to charge . |
| 23 | Clark Gable , James Cagney and Bogart developed peaceful ways of ridding themselves of these nuisances . |
| 24 | With subsequent context , however , even this can be interpreted as mediated through the mind of Pemberton , who after all is able to draw his own conclusions from Mrs Moreen 's fairly obvious strategy of ridding them of the boy 's company . |
| 25 | For example you 've got lots of got lots of minuses in . |
| 26 | For during this first term the long regular letters to Harry Hooton appear to be a substitute for letters to Helen and a roundabout way of informing her of his progress . |
| 27 | I would of thought you of all people would have done that you know ! |
| 28 | Previously , the surest way of getting plenty of attention was to be naughty . |
| 29 | His letters evince the excitement he felt at undertaking this journey , one which few Europeans had as yet made , and his anticipation of getting plenty of big game hunting on the way . |
| 30 | Having formed the habit of buying lots of fresh fruit and vegetables , fish , white meat and low fat alternatives to dairy products , we need to cook interesting and attractively presented dishes . |