Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a decision to paint one of them a garish blue has failed to ameliorate the effect . |
| 2 | A town is in mourning after two people , one of them a nine year old boy , died in separate holiday accidents in the United States . |
| 3 | In the hut , in the open snow , in the Factory , the Administration block , in the punishment cells , is any one of them a better ground to fight on ? |
| 4 | Leukaemia , MS , Homeless , Starving , Single Parented , Down 's Syndrome , Help the Aged — every one of them a deserving cause , deserving of my attendance , my money , my commitment , my clothes . |
| 5 | To Tozer 's surprise , two clients — one of them a new customer — have asked Softwright to sort out their own wayward personal computer-based projects . |
| 6 | They will play before the howling , hipflasking hordes of Old Stiffupperlippians , each of them wearing a red rose and not one of them a Labour voter . |
| 7 | Between 1960 and 1970 there was no more successful caddie than Tip Anderson : three victories — one of them a spectacular triumph with Tony Lema on his beloved St Andrews links , and a second place in the centenary , also at St Andrews . |
| 8 | I twisted on the pole , pushed my talons forward and caught one of them a passing blow . |
| 9 | At present the London Implementation Group smells too much of hole in the corner deals : the working part of the group consists only of two named people , one of them a former Thames regional chairman , and the ordinary members of the specialty review committees ( see p 589 ) and of the all important Primary Health Care Forum had not yet been announced as we went to press . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's what I call civilization , ’ he said decisively and gave one of them a smart pat . |
| 11 | In one of them a short note to me was enclosed . |
| 12 | Detectives want to trace two people ; one of them a scruffy man with a centre parting seen on the towpath of the Stroudwater canal behind the house on the afternoon of the killing . |
| 13 | Laura , for instance , had two younger brothers , who were not settling very well into the stockbrokers ' firm in which they had been placed , and numerous uncles , one of them an old horror who obtained Scandinavian au pairs through advertisements in The Lady , and then , of course , her Norfolk cousins . |
| 14 | Other Red Cross workers saw Mr Christen standing with his hands in the air , holding in one of them an artificial limb , before the gunmen took him away . |
| 15 | This kind of sentiment was reflected in France , where the influential courtier , Philippe de Mézières , in works of a semi-polemical nature ( one of them an open letter on peace addressed to Richard II ) asked whether the long war should continue . |
| 16 | As I passed the two of them a second security guard came out of the doorway , holding a fat canvas money-bag . |
| 17 | Now , less than a week after the Wearmouth colliery pit disaster , when an underground train carrying miners to the pit was derailed , killing two of them a new advert has appeared . |
| 18 | She felt her face beginning to get hot as two women passed by and gave the two of them a casual glance . |