Example sentences of "of they [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had entrusted one of them with her secret thoughts , made one of them into a particular friend , it would have created immediate parochial difficulties , rifts and divisions and jealousies . |
| 2 | When they reached the base of the steep drop into the valley , they spotted Bob Lamb striding out ahead of them at a brisk pace . |
| 3 | Instead he received all of the 3,813 papers , but each of them at a reduced value . |
| 4 | The effect will be the same as in the distribution of a primary surplus : in the simpler system the transfer of a proportion of the available votes , the transfer of all of them at a reduced value if the senatorial rules are used . |
| 5 | Thus an association of features leads to the attribution of all of them to a common agency , rather like the association of subglacial channels with eskers in a different context . |
| 6 | Plenty of steps , most of them with a rich reward for the climber , such as those that lead to the Lindenhof . |
| 7 | Keith Ramsey supplied three of them with a long-range shot 15 seconds from time , but Gerald Lee marshalled his team through . |
| 8 | The Wapping area involved four or five local authorities and the plan was to leave each of them with a high degree of autonomy but with some rather unconsidered federal situation over the whole area . |
| 9 | Nathan nodded his thanks as the waiter presented each of them with a leather-bound menu . |
| 10 | Evelyn watched the two of them with a little smile on her face . |
| 11 | The actual question appeared each time on the screen in front of them with a seven point scale with labels at the end points — 7=VERY WELL and 1=NOT VERY WELL . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've ended up most of them with a full confession , once we 'd worked it out . |
| 13 | In that aim it is abetted both by nature conservation bodies — duped by the MoD 's tendentious Defence and the Environment prospectus of three years ago , into believing that the area 's interests are best served by the public being kept out — and by factions within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority , most of them with a military background , who also tug their forelocks to that aim . |
| 14 | yeah , the , that 's the awful part I tried one of them with a big bit here and I tried it on and it looked like a tit on a pimple , I said god what am I gon na do ? |
| 15 | You could admire them from a safe distance , but you would n't want to run into one of them on a dark night at the crossroads . |
| 16 | There were more double doors at the end and in front of them on a tubular chair sat a uniformed constable reading the Sunday Express . |
| 17 | In the United Kingdom in 1988 , there were 1298 publicly maintained nursery schools catering for some 98,000 children , 82% of them on a part-time basis . |
| 18 | Of importance here is the fact that 14 interviewees ( 23 per cent ) were regular users of another opioid , principally Diconal , eight of them on a daily basis . |
| 19 | Another reason for our inability to give accurate figures is due to the prevalence of several other types of population movement , some of them on a huge scale , although extended over a longer period . |
| 20 | The lead fisherman wore shades ( ever see fish wearing glasses ? ) for the bluesy number and got rid of them for a rappy tune ( thank God ! ) . |
| 21 | There was sand everywhere between the knee-high crags , so I climbed on one of them for a better view . |
| 22 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 23 | I have n't seen one of them for a long time |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't done any of them for a long time . |
| 25 | I have n't had one of them for a long time . |
| 26 | Could do with one of them for a long time , could n't I ? |
| 27 | ‘ It has two rooms and she is willing to let your client move into one of them for a short period . |
| 28 | Further inquiries , by the CIA , had established that these digital electric timers were prototypes , unique to Meister et Bollier of Zurich , who had made 20 of them for a Libyan intelligence organization in 1985 . |
| 29 | That is an inadequate answer , given that more than a year ago there was a severe weather crisis throughout the country , especially in the east midlands district where 2 million people were without supplies , some of them for a considerable period . |
| 30 | The ploughs and gritters do their best , of course , but it 's not at all uncommon for the elements to get the better of them for a little while . |