Example sentences of "of [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( If my private test convinces me that I do not want what you think I want , I assume error in your reading of me the public tests , which I must expose or leave you unanswered . ) |
| 2 | We continued unimpeded until I saw ahead of me the drawing-room where I had interviewed Mountbatten , and sitting on one of the sofas with his back to us the unmistakable profile and balding head of Prince Charles . |
| 3 | Only later , I told the now somewhat quivering Principal , only later , when Rosa had gone , did it come to mind that one or two of the other girls had made of me the same enquiry over the past twelve months . |
| 4 | And a moment ago I had in front of me the relevant paper . |
| 5 | On the right are some rocks , and at the foot of them the sheep are feeding . |
| 6 | On the television in front of them the President of the World said abruptly , ‘ It 's not a question of how I feel . |
| 7 | He believes that about a million new households will form in the South-east by 2001 , most of them the sons and daughters and new elderly of the region itself . |
| 8 | Then there is the story of the man who , as a young law student , fled across the border from the East and now , some 40 years later , has woven the deal which brought another 15,000 , many of them the age he was then , to the West . |
| 9 | And it is significant that for many of them the beacon light is Britain — yes , Margaret Thatcher 's Britain . ’ |
| 10 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 11 | Thinking on his feet , Prost whipped out a fistful of cash , sparing both of them the embarrassment had he paid by credit card . |
| 12 | Had Auntie been fool enough last February to believe it , she had a choice of 190 ‘ UK growth ’ funds — and in 187 of them the growth was negative . |
| 13 | For the rest of them the promises have turned out to be empty . |
| 14 | Quincx had insisted on telling both of them the details of Zambia 's difficulties , despite protests from Tammuz , feeling both women needed to be given a reason for the delay in Ari 's treatment . |
| 15 | For most of them the ‘ arena , was formed just by swinging a huge articulated truck across one end of the street . |
| 16 | Other stock markets around the world followed the optimisic trend set by the big exchanges , though in many of them the trading was relatively light . |
| 17 | In five of them the nitrate level already exceeded 50 mg/litre and it was due to exceed that level in the others by 1991–2004 . |
| 18 | Ahead of them the reef roared like a lion waiting to be fed . |
| 19 | For most of them the beginning of grammar school represented a sharp break from the familiarities of the neighbourhood primary school . |
| 20 | Thus , for both of them the theory of forms excluded all possibility of evolution . |
| 21 | The plaster casts demonstrate this with unpleasant clarity ; in many of them the hands are still pressed to the mouth , preserving the last hopeless efforts to breathe . |
| 22 | The public library uniquely affords the expression of all minority views , gives all of them the opportunity of acceptance , or of withering away . |
| 23 | The sight of all which struck them with consternation or a kind of horror that they incontinently gave over search and with the utmost hurry and dread , throwing earth and turf to fill up the pit they made , they departed , having neither of them the courage to enter or even inspect into the further circumstances of the place ’ . |
| 24 | Researches under the auspices of Britain 's Rare Breeds Survival Trust suggest that the indigenous breeds have not yet diverged enough from each other for a high frequency of chromosomal polymorphism to be established and in most of them the similarities far outweigh the differences . |
| 25 | When Chapman had signed on new players in July , he had agreed to pay three of them the full yearly wage of £208 to the end of the next April . |
| 26 | I saw in all of them the potential of poets and mystics . |
| 27 | Eastern religions — some of them the oldest known to man — have taught people for millennia to find their gods within themselves . |
| 28 | They have disposed of the different regimes relevant to the different kinds of legacies , and they have adopted for all of them the rule applying to trusts . |
| 29 | One of the more spectacular sites is in Gregory , Texas , where some 4 million tonnes of bauxite are kept in dumps , some of them the height of a six storey building . |
| 30 | The two remaining horses appeared round the corner , one of them the roan . |