Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been rioting down by the docks , some said , but no one knew exactly where ; and Mrs Norris swore they were throwing the dead into mass graves , and half of them good Catholics without the last rites . |
| 2 | I found it hard to picture what kind of landscape those statistics might have shaped , until I opened the Ordnance Survey map to find half of it coloured green with a great blue stain in the centre . |
| 3 | People came from far and near to see the wonders they wrought , and eventually , like the Myrcans , some of them accepted service with the lords of Minginish . |
| 4 | His clothes , some of them old things of Theo 's which had been altered for him , were shabby , and were getting spattered with paint . |
| 5 | Semantics is the study of meaning , and as such derives much of it theoretical inspiration from disciplines such as philosophy , psychology and linguistics . |
| 6 | The quarrel would n't do either of them any good with the Establishment Department , but he thought he knew which one it would harm most . |
| 7 | Dougal had read all about it this afternoon in the public library at Swiss Cottage . |
| 8 | In ‘ package transactions ’ , trust banks each buy , say , 100,000 shares of the same 20 stocks — all of them key components of the Nikkei share average . |
| 9 | Good as its word , Advanced Micro Devices Inc yesterday announced that it has begun shipments of the first members of its Am486 microprocessor family with 33MHz , 40MHz and clock-doubled 50MHz versions , all of them full clones of the Intel Corp 80486 with maths co-processor on board . |
| 10 | We anxiously resigned ourselves to a long wait , and as the weeks passed we gradually got to know the handful of long-term foreign residents in the town , all of them eccentric survivors from days of former glory . |
| 11 | I wish him and all of you good luck in all your hopes and endeavours . ’ |
| 12 | Thank you again for your efforts keeping all of us far-flung graduates in touch and thanks too for considering my seconding of Anne 's proposal . |
| 13 | P.S. Would you please , please , put Jennifer Capriati in your Sweetspot in the next issue for all of us Capriati fans out her . |
| 14 | Students and staff at the Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education , many of them fellow members of the college rugby team , wept during a performance of Elton John 's Yellow Brick Road , the favourite tune of student , Murray Pugh , stabbed to death in Cheltenham just over a month ago . |
| 15 | Many of them expressed appreciation of local cathedral organists and parish musicians who provide a lead and incentive to others . |
| 16 | I am sure that hon. Members have talked to constituents , many of them young women with children , who say bitterly that they feel trapped in their environment and dare not go out at night , even to have a cup of tea with a friend . |
| 17 | Indeed , many of them experienced agonies of self-doubt ; all too aware of their inadequacies as Christians , they threw themselves headlong into acts of piety and charity in order to prove to themselves that they really were God 's elect . |
| 18 | Syria , or rather Antiochus , pollutes the Temple of Jerusalem on the eve of a final war which will give him victory over Egypt , but which will soon be followed by the deliverance of the Jews and by the Last Judgement : " And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake , some to everlasting life and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence " ( 12.2 ) . |
| 19 | Controversy surrounding summit Prior to the summit , governments and NGOs of varying persuasions traded accusations , many of them familiar rehearsals of long-standing differences . |
| 20 | To the sacked Timex workers , many of them middle-aged women with long years of service , he was the embodiment of Thatcherite management at its rawest . |
| 21 | Saints alive , you 've had enough of 'em both sides of the blanket . " |
| 22 | ‘ Do any of them own horses like ours ? ’ |
| 23 | It is true that some members of the party were inclined to take a ‘ soft ’ line towards Germany : prominent among them were Philip Noel-Baker and Richard Stokes , both of them middle-class members of the party . |
| 24 | Emerson and Jackie swopped positions at Brands Hatch , with both of them missing gears at critical points and having to drive some time in oil thrown up by Ickx 's Ferrari . |
| 25 | He fussed for a while over a large teapot , pouring both of us outsize cups of tea . |
| 26 | Macdonell 's description of a village cricket match against a team of authors , most of them recognizable characters in Squire 's own team , ‘ The Invalids ’ , became required reading . |
| 27 | Most of them enclosed letters to be forwarded to her . |
| 28 | " When the war came he had a fleet of eleven ships , most of them modern carriers of eight hundred to one thousand tons . |
| 29 | It emerged at the trial that 89 of the victims , most of them suspected members of Sendero Luminoso , had been shot in the head . |
| 30 | She had to search and destroy , scorch and defoliate , and she made the most of her one point of advantage , namely that I was a kept man . |