Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] of the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought of the two members of my crew who were dead and remembered that if any of us had deserved to die it was 1 , who was responsible for the disaster . |
| 2 | I think of the three forms — poems , novels , short stories — and the short story stands mid-way between the other two . |
| 3 | Have you heard of the Thirty Years War ? |
| 4 | What do you know of the two men 's relationship ? |
| 5 | She told of the one time when the weeping stopped . |
| 6 | They 've not in the past shown themselves to be very honest erm nor very keen on going into their own archives , and I think it 's , actually takes people like me , who live on the border-lines if you like of the two cultures , to go in and discover erm sometimes embarrassing documents , embarrassing information , to confront them with it , in their own language , so that they have to take stock . |
| 7 | She thought of Rory 's hand on her bare stomach , she thought of the two art students with their camera , she saw two brimming glasses of Beamish in the dockside bar , and the light came on . |
| 8 | In her 15-minute speech she spoke of the two countries ' shared ideals , including democracy , stability and a rejection of the power which " grows from the barrel of a gun " . |
| 9 | Their peppy ensemble style and ambitious sound gets you thinking of the '70s boom era for Irish acts like The Bothy Band and Clannad , a time when there seemed to be masses of energy and ideas around . |
| 10 | This was a return to an area similar to that of my A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry ( 1969 ) , and in fact we thought of the two books as companion volumes , dealing respectively with poetry and prose . |
| 11 | The more he thought of the two carpet-baggers standing up at the podium , the more intense the pains in his head became . |