Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph Gill , John Pinney 's hard-drinking cousin , lived as near by as caretaker ; Peggy Marsh , described by Dorothy as ‘ one of the nicest girls I ever saw ’ , arrived after a month to help in running the enormous house ; and from the beginning Wordsworth and Dorothy were preoccupied with caring for a child not yet three years old called Basil Montagu . |
| 2 | At his best , he was one of the funniest storytellers you ever heard . |
| 3 | On behalf of the Liberal Democrats he now intended to work , in partnership with the Communist Party , for Genuine Socialism . |
| 4 | Such data could provide a better understanding of how pneumonia fits into the course of the chronic diseases it often accompanies , and thereby form a basis for therapeutic decision-making . |
| 5 | There again , we had one of the best encouragements we ever had . |
| 6 | One of the best investments we ever made in our business . |
| 7 | The year will be remembered as one of the best times we ever had . |
| 8 | We had a lot in common and we liked each other and he was one of the best directors I ever had . ’ |
| 9 | Erm DOS Five was one of the best buys I ever made because |
| 10 | Looking back on the deal , Chapman believed that ‘ one of the best bargains I ever made was the most costly one . ’ |
| 11 | That 's very true and they have a the industry itself , you know , now has to pick itself up and say right we , you know , and it 's very easy to talk oneself into recession and January and February , normally fairly dull months anyway , we are now , on March the first , Saint David 's Day , at the brink of a season which could be one of the best seasons they ever have . |
| 12 | This helped developers by relieving them of the expensive negotiations they usually have to undertake . |
| 13 | One of the finest books I ever had to review was Janet and Allan Ahlbergs Funnybones , a brilliant tale of what a skeleton family gets up to at night when everyone else is in bed . |
| 14 | It was decided to bring about the dissolution of the greater part of this library , and the library was offered for sale by Messrs Sotheby at one of the provincial salerooms they then owned , Sotheby 's Taunton . |
| 15 | His concern is with the impact of technical change on two of the four factors we previously identified as potential sources of job satisfaction , namely social relations at work and the exercise of skill and knowledge . |
| 16 | When this logic was applied to the lower ranks of the armed forces it also carried the gloss that these men were less capable of intellectual control , being more animal and closer to nature . |
| 17 | A friend and I in in our church we 've started erm a mother and toddler service and that seemed to really help a lot of the young mums they really look forward and they said could we have it more often . |
| 18 | But by the time we reached the foot of the fixed ropes it suddenly changed , with the wind dropping and the snow stopping . |
| 19 | Honey Come Back was one of the first singles I ever bought , and I always loved the way he played . ’ |
| 20 | Actress and comedienne Helen Lederer , star of BBC2 's Naked Video and BBC Radio 4 's Life with Lederer , is pictured in her kitchen creating an omelette — one of the first dishes she ever learned to cook ‘ really well ’ . |
| 21 | Since this shot occurs in two different scenes , maybe he tried it both ways , but it looks the same in each , tough repeated inspection fails to disclose conclusively which of the two possibilities it actually is . |
| 22 | Lowe quickly made the telling point that whenever he saw film or photographs of the All Blacks they always looked as grim and serious . |
| 23 | After many of the recent disasters we later learned that the authorities knew there was a problem all along — but the public did n't . |
| 24 | From another encylopedia , this time of African animals , she identified for us some of the small animals they occasionally caught and ate . |
| 25 | To the horror of the watching children he just sliced the pudding in half — gave one piece to his son and quickly devoured the rest . |
| 26 | She was one of the kindest persons I ever met . |
| 27 | The provision of state pensions for such people was a welcome addition to the incomes of the extended households they almost invariably belonged to ; it supplemented and sometimes replaced the help which lineages would otherwise have given . |
| 28 | In view of the evasive comments he later made on this latter episode ( Canon Demant tells of his being pressed by some German students and saying that he was the last person to be able to answer them ) , I believe that he had experienced a moment of horrifying self-revelation ‘ of all that he had done and been ’ and thought , which had opened up a wound that could not heal . |
| 29 | Kakoo , as she was always known , was a unique person , one of the loveliest girls we ever saw , and all her life she remained beautiful , with a marvellous sense of humour and a true enjoyment in everything she did and everyone she knew . |
| 30 | On top of the three letters we always put the sign ( / ) which is short for the word " angle " . |