Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These young teenagers all millions of them all in this group that came down and took their bras and oh |
| 2 | ‘ Britain ’ is an inclusive term for a great diversity of customs and beliefs , not all of them consistent with each other . |
| 3 | And the author consists of trillions of those cells , many of them different from each other , organized with intricate architecture and precision-engineering into a working machine capable of writing a book ( my trillions are American , like all my units : one American trillion is a million millions , an American billion is a thousand millions ) . |
| 4 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 5 | I would pause to wipe away a tear or two of my own at this point were it not for the fact that the dear departed , otherwise Rory Underwood , has decided not to depart . |
| 6 | Inflation is far from dead , and surveys suggest that most young people still want to buy a home of their own at some stage . |
| 7 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 8 | Both GM and Ford have tried to introduce high-priced European models of their own without much success . |
| 9 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 10 | As luck would have it , Sophie had had no arrangement of her own for this evening , and , either forgetting our pact , or not taking my need for it seriously as she knew my activities were , on her terms , so innocent , had dropped in to borrow some coffee . |
| 11 | Rosa Mentasti has brought together some wonderful glass , much of it new to this reviewer . |
| 12 | He knows that it is his business to contribute something of his own to this store of experience ; and that he should play his part in moulding it and improving it to meet changing conditions . |
| 13 | Though he despised the dinginess of the impulse , he transferred half the money in their joint bank account into one of his own at another branch . |
| 14 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 15 | Erm in response to er Miss Whittaker 's question we did not hear of anything special in this county that justifies the policy in excess of that exceeds should I say erm national guidance . |