Example sentences of "of [pron] former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virtually all the cathedral choirs whose recordings are known abroad are directed by former Oxbridge students of one kind or another , most of them former organ scholars . |
| 2 | Tiguary , at the north tip of the island , could muster about five hundred men ; from the length of the northern shore , the chiefs there could raise another four hundred ; on Oualie , Dulé could promise a force nearly two hundred strong of a mixed crowd of men , a core of maroons from islands in the archipelago colonised already , some redlegs , or tallow men , renegades to their own people and the more ardent to fight for that very apostasy ( some of them former prisoners and others who had been press-ganged into sailing service ) . |
| 3 | During the two-month trial , David Paget , prosecuting , said KAS operatives , many of them former SAS soldiers , tailed Europarks directors to their homes , searched their dustbins and got jobs in the company 's car parks . |
| 4 | Since all private truck owners are now allowed to bring food from Hiratan and sell it in Kabul , some militia commanders , most of them former mujahedin , are buying trucks and becoming traders . |
| 5 | His father said in a statement : ‘ I have no personal knowledge of this incident from my adult son of my former marriage . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When I think of my former sister-in-law agreeing to marry him , it makes me feel ill , positively ill . ’ |
| 7 | I intended to sub-contract it to one of my former students , a very , very skilful young man who had been with us on a fee-paying course for one year and then gone off and worked in a local workshop for another 18 months . |
| 8 | However I had no wish to disappoint everyone concerned by postponing by visit to the Palace and , with a lot of help from friends and family I finally made it to London on the great day albeit a shadow of my former self . |
| 9 | No , what blew against my ankles like tumbleweed that afternoon was not the crinkle of Mumm NV but the discarded skin of my former being , my beetle carapace , my sloughed and umber appurtenances . |
| 10 | For example if you go back to say Queen Victoria and Queen Mary and one of my former bosses was a godchild of Queen Mary and I mean he simply said to me talking not long ago about one of the nobody i people did n't behave like that at court so they 've really asked for everything they 've got . |
| 11 | ‘ Very well , ’ answered the wife , ‘ and it always reminds me of my former Croydon neighbour , Pam Hook , who also taught Medau . ’ |
| 12 | I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible . |
| 13 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 14 | One of my former patients , a respected scientist who had worked for many years in the field of cancer research , still kept the inferior Inner Face inflicted on him by demanding parents and a series of thoughtless teachers . |
| 15 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 16 | One of my former patients — an antique dealer from Chesterfield in Derbyshire — was regressed as part of his therapeutic treatment . |
| 17 | I later wrote a little piece for the magazine of the Old Boys of my former grammar school and I said , quite truthfully , that I had n't even told my family what was said between us . |
| 18 | Now , ghosts are regarded as being greedy for meat and as possessive of their former spouses , both forms of behaviour condemned as anti-social among the living . |
| 19 | The Condemned had thrown out everything of their former existence — their hair , clothes , music . |
| 20 | But even these lack something of their former abandon , and any extra refinement is insufficient to compensate . |
| 21 | He could see from the number of bells beside each door that they 'd nearly all been turned into flats now , or dentists ' surgeries , and some were in urgent need of renovation , but they still retained some of their former grandeur , or was it pretension ? |
| 22 | Built 200 years before as legal chambers , they still bore traces of their former grandeur : beams , joists , and bearing timbers of sound oak ; wainscoting and lofty rooms . |
| 23 | And , now , crumbling in decay , over laden with a desolate burden of humanity , the houses had the look of queuing for a great knacker 's yard , of eagerly embracing the extinction of their former grandeur , of offering themselves to ruin with an abandonment almost luxurious . |
| 24 | Their coffers have been boosted by the £100,000 sale of their former England Rugby Union three-quarter John Bentley and international loose forward Gary Divorty to Halifax . |
| 25 | If they 'd been wise and told their government that this tax should not happen , as indeed many of their former ministers , like Michael Heseltine said , they 'd said it was incredibly complicated although seemed sounding easy , and would in fact bring higher levels of taxation to the lowest income people , then er if the local tories had actually acted on that and put pressure on their central party , perhaps their government would n't be in such a mess about this issue now . |
| 26 | OLD ASIA hands still talk nostalgically about the Good Old Days in many of the region 's cities and ports , which have since had much of their former life and glamour squeezed out of them by oppressive regimes , overcrowding or economic decline . |
| 27 | Yet , whilst the Burmese retain a grudging respect for the British , they exact a characteristic vengeance upon the sanctified edifice of their former masters . |
| 28 | Using reported experiences , we aimed to draw together good practice and make recommendations to the organisations on how best to manage secondments so as to help secondees adapt more rapidly to their new jobs and , in due course , to the return of their former posts . |
| 29 | His collections in Bohemia and those of succeeding Habsburgs are now mere shadows of their former glory . |
| 30 | Furthermore the British , despite the Cold War , were still determined to recover as much as possible of their former independence and influence in the world . |