Example sentences of "[adj] of [pron] [vb past] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five thousand of them covered the last mile of the march through the Berkshire fields in silence , despite the coldest and wettest Easter for forty years . |
| 2 | Apart from his engravings , for which he became particularly well known , he was an excellent portrait painter and his painting of four children — one of whom became the fifth Duke of Devonshire — in the grounds of Chiswick House , probably attracted him to Chiswick , an area considered by many notable persons at that time , as very healthy . |
| 3 | stolen , one of which contained the last and only |
| 4 | But it was a neat chaos of boxes piled on each other , cakes still in the tins they came in and hatboxes , one of which contained the last remaining ball of her long-ago childhood . |
| 5 | She never knew which one of them made the first move , but suddenly , unaccountably , she was in his arms , his hands pressing against her back to draw her closer still . |
| 6 | Five other nice but provocable strategies ended up nearly as successful ( frequent in the population ) as Tit for Tat ; indeed , one of them won the sixth run . |