Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 2 | Ahead of me lay an historic mission : to circumnavigate London using hired transport , and return within 80 days . |
| 3 | ‘ He hates to think of me having a good time , ’ said Camille . |
| 4 | That 's what all the papers keep telling them and yet none of them take a blind bit of notice . |
| 5 | All of them take the working actors ' problems into account and attempt to create classes which can make free hours both disciplined and profitable . |
| 6 | The two of them make a right pair , sending messages , leaving notes you look at this , now ! ’ |
| 7 | On our first visit I was left standing by these youngsters as one of them unearthed a good bag of finds ranging from Roman through to Georgian . |
| 8 | By this stage , many of them reflected the growing importance of the classical movement , depicting their subjects in classical settings , surrounded by symbolic fruits , flowers , and urns . |
| 9 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 10 | In addition the information society substitutes brain for brawn : 70 per cent of its jobs require intellectual skills and at least half of them require a professional qualification or education to degree standard . |
| 11 | Nearly all of them use a formulaic phrase : ‘ I dug him downstairs and his belly rolled over to there . ’ |
| 12 | I was n't sure how many of them knew the actual meaning of the word . |
| 13 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , explained : ‘ Quite a few historians have written about this building but it seems a bit odd that none of them knew the exact date it opened . |
| 14 | That they did not was evident in 1988 as 112 gentlemen archers , over half of them using the traditional longbow , took aim at the annual tournament for the ‘ Antient Scorton Silver Arrow ’ . |
| 15 | One of them saw a tarnished wristwatch lying on the beach and decided to play a practical joke . |
| 16 | Instead , most of them saw a steady confirmation of their existing position . |
| 17 | Someone had told me that no less than twenty people had left the Church after my speech , many of them to join the Raelian Society , a group that exists to set up embassies on earth for alien intelligences wishing to make contact with earthlings . |
| 18 | Each of them requires a complete day out to go and visit them and it 's very difficult to find a complete day because there are so many other things , so many other demands on your time . |
| 19 | And of those who firmly intended to vote Conservative more than half of them said the major reason for giving the Tories support was that ‘ they like the local candidate ’ . |
| 20 | We offered them on the basis of them creating a mass membership party . |
| 21 | UNESCO , who has suddenly come alive , has invited the two of them to plan an experimental city in which new technologies and new ways of living can be explored more fully than they were in the real world . |
| 22 | None of them shared the icy restraint of the last letter . |
| 23 | Most people in bands have quite similar backgrounds and I reckon a lot of them shared the same experience as I did . |
| 24 | One of them activates a secret latch , book shelves swing aside to reveal a flight of descending stone steps . |
| 25 | Anyone opening a computer magazine will find themselves confronted with a bewildering array of advertisements , all of them promising the greatest deals known to mankind . |
| 26 | So too did many others , on both sides of the Pennines , not all of them obeying the mischievous hints of Captain Goldsborough , of course — since even he could not have been in so many places all at once — but intent on stirring up trouble nevertheless . |
| 27 | He looked up to see the last of them swing a booted foot over the Baglietto 's taffrail . |
| 28 | One of them frisks a large steel ashtray and hands a roach to another . |
| 29 | A few of these difficult public-interest cases go , not to the disciplinary committee , but to the Joint Disciplinary Scheme : not more than about one or two a year , but each of them demanding a great investment of time and money . |
| 30 | One of them extends the Fourth Directive to both partnerships ( whether limited or unlimited ) and unlimited companies , in either case where the partners or shareholders themselves have limited liability . |