Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Crowley and his wife , Sally , recently moved from a picturesque 300-year-old home near Coleford in the Forest of Dean to live in London with their children , Robin , ten , and Pearce , seven . |
| 2 | The assistant Deputy Surveyor in the Forest of Dean reported in 1788 that : |
| 3 | FIG. 1 Mortality , size distribution and maturation of Nephila clavipes in a rich habitat ( Panama , Cerro Galera Hill Road ) . |
| 4 | A REVIEW OF ICI WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH INDUSTRY |
| 5 | He was suddenly tired and the beer was going to his head , making him think of Madra lying in the house they had left , and of the long journey ahead of them through the mountains . |
| 6 | Today some of the victims of RSI gathered in Swindon to share their thoughts about a judge . |
| 7 | ON THIS DAY : In 1899 , the siege of Ladysmith began in Natal . |
| 8 | Hugh of Lincoln died in London in November 1200 and on the way back to Lincoln the funeral procession passed through Stamford . |
| 9 | Towards the end of October 1337 Henry Burghersh Bishop of Lincoln arrived in Paris with a letter from Edward III addressed to ‘ Philip of Valois who calls himself king of France ’ . |
| 10 | The Duke of Wellington died in 1852 , when Lord Derby was Prime Minister , and a most magnificent funeral was arranged in his honour . |
| 11 | To show ‘ solidarity with the poor ’ , and hoping , politely , to shame the Americans into faster delivery , President Guillermo Endara spent the first half of March fasting in Metropolitan Cathedral . |
| 12 | The fall of McCarthy came in 1954 as a result of his own excesses and the actions of a few courageous individuals , rather than from any official disapproval . |
| 13 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 14 | I tramped through the ruins of Tughlukabad trying in my mind to fill the deserted barracks with Turkish mameluks and Persian cavalry officers . |
| 15 | Roy Hankin of Sheffield won in 4 hours , 29 minutes and 31 seconds , 15 minutes faster than his time the previous year , beating Bradford 's Melvyn McCann into second place , but not breaking McCann 's record time of 4 hours , 25 minutes and 53 seconds set in 1984 . |
| 16 | At one time the abbot 's vineyards stretched all the way to the River Severn , from beneath the castle walls where 98 corpses hung after the siege of Shrewsbury described in One Corpse Too Many . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , do shut up ! ’ said Molly , thinking of Jacqueline left in the sole care of Giovanna . |
| 18 | " One year ago the people of Panama lived in fear , under the thumb of a dictator . |
| 19 | The blood of Daijin runs in me , it is true . ’ |
| 20 | Whereas many otherwise ‘ progressive ’ disciples of Rousseau believed in controlling the entire environment of the child and programming its mind with carefully selected sense impressions , Wordsworth and Dorothy believed in complete freedom : ‘ Till a child is four years old he needs no other companions than the flowers , the grass , the cattle , the sheep that scamper away from him , when he makes a vain unexpecting chase after them , the pebbles upon the road etc . |
| 21 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 22 | Scientists report that the inner ears of Weddell seals in McMurdo Sound , Antarctica , have been damaged by seismic blasts . |
| 23 | Further north in Staffordshire the ancient market town of Lichfield founded in 1149 on the line of one of the main London to Chester roads , declined into cosy respectability as the new Holyhead road was diverted sixteen miles to the south . |
| 24 | On the death of Magnus Barelegs in 1103 , St Magnus returned to Orkney , where Hakon was persuaded to share the earldom with him . |
| 25 | He travelled as a seaman to Sydney where he won the Australian heavyweight title before transferring to San Francisco where he was persuaded by the Earl of Lonsdale to operate in England , a move which enhanced his status greatly , as a contemporary noted : ‘ I knew him in the days of his greatness when sitting on top of the pugilistic world , fêted and lionized , he might well have been excused some slight vanity ’ ( quoted by Henderson , 1949 , pp.20–1 ) . |
| 26 | For example , when John Hey of Birkhouse in the West Riding parish of Kirkburton died in 1719 , the executors of his estate were his widow Susannah and a John Halstead , who lived at Thornhill , some 10 miles or so away . |
| 27 | It is estimated that about a third of the population of Germany perished in the struggle . |
| 28 | Louis had another method of attracting the devotion of those to whom abstract hierarchies were mere nonsense : he touched for scrofula , as Guibert of Nogent attested in a work written before 1124 . |
| 29 | She walked into the make-up room , then stopped in her tracks at the sight of Marianne sitting in the chair before the mirror . |
| 30 | President Assad of Syria arrived in Cairo on March 31 for talks with President Mubarak of Egypt and senior Egyptian officials . |