Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] of [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well this is for different kinds of metal you see |
| 2 | It is possible to sequence learning in interdisciplinary contexts , but for some kinds of content-sequence it is undoubtedly much easier to keep a steady eye on the subject . |
| 3 | I took the coach , and after thirty-six hours of travelling I got down at Thornfield village , and almost ran across the fields in my hurry to see the well-known house again , and its owner . |
| 4 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |
| 5 | But I think after three glasses of wine it 's time I went home . ’ |
| 6 | After 18 months of treatment he was clear of TB and able to complete the immigration procedures . |
| 7 | After 17 years of service it was a humiliating experience . |
| 8 | After many hours of travelling they passed a sign that read ‘ WE 'LL SOON BE AT PRAIL ’ . |
| 9 | After long years of thought we are conditioned to respond to this imperceptible stimulus of beauty , and we see the imagery in the small and insignificant , and feel the sensation of ecstasy that it causes . |
| 10 | I remember Malc 's rum punch days ( rum — and punch anything ) and his Yorkshire lad days ( 14 pints , a black pudding and domino puke ) ; now he 's matured to a steady G. & T. In the absence of Lucozade I order a Coke and Kenneth a beer , and after ten minutes of chat we leave for our appointment , promising to rejoin them later . |
| 11 | Maximilian , however , is desperately hungry for blood , and after 3 rounds of combat he must make a Cl test ( and at 2-round intervals after this until a test is failed ) . |
| 12 | After 50 years of experience we have perfected the art of passenger hospitality on long flights . |
| 13 | AFTER 16 years of marriage we are splitting up and are both agreed that it is the best thing to do . |
| 14 | you think god , you know , and after five years of marriage you think well have we tried everything , yeah |
| 15 | After five years of controversy it is about to be laid to rest . |
| 16 | In 1762 , Josiah Wedgwood met Thomas Bentley , a Liverpool merchant , with whom he formed an intimate and lasting friendship ; and after several years of negotiation they signed , in 1769 , a partnership which ended only on Bentley 's death in 1780 . |
| 17 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |
| 18 | After four years of service they could return home for a holiday with the family or bring out their wives and children , providing they had found accommodation for them . |
| 19 | After eighteen years of pain I have decided to leave . |
| 20 | After 24 hours of freedom I knew no one was going to lock me up again |
| 21 | Henrietta 's frail constitution could not withstand the rigours of childbirth , however , and after seven years of marriage she died soon after giving birth to their son , John . |
| 22 | I think she 'd knitted it herself out of old pieces of string she 'd saved from the children 's birthday presents . ’ |
| 23 | Out of 105 items of prey he examined , only 7 were pieces of lamb compared with 3 entire fox bodies and 25 rabbits . |
| 24 | This letter was only the beginning of a case with a long history , and by piecing together a number of disjointed fragments of information we can obtain an unusually clear picture of the sequence of events and of Anselm 's reactions to them . |
| 25 | In the case of human beings of course you have to notice that men seem to have an advantage because as I think I mention i in the lectures , it 's perfectly possible , you see this happening in our own society which is supposed to be monogamous , perfectly possible for a man to get married , raise a family and then in his forties to desert his wife and raise a second family . |
| 26 | Because of these methods of production he is also able to make special tools to order , one such recent order was for hooked turning tools . |
| 27 | If the review is to command the support of all sides of industry it must be seen as being thorough and in-depth . |
| 28 | Utilities Xtradrive is one of those bits of software you can install and forget — in every test we 've thrown at it , it has been totally transparent to the user — but even so , there are some interesting utilities included with it . |
| 29 | In one of those swings of mood she experienced , swooping backwards and forwards like a pendulum , Blanche was frothy again . |
| 30 | One of those flashes of shyness he has . |