Example sentences of "of [pron] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 2 | No fewer than 39,000 members of the Merchant Service lost their lives in the Second World War , many of them in the Western Approaches , yet they are invariably overshadowed by their more glamorous allies in the Royal Navy . |
| 3 | Lot number one O five Lot number one O five , the terracotta carvings there 's eight of them there we are , all eight of them in the framed case for three hundred pounds at three hundred pounds and twenty , fifty , at three hundred and fifty pounds any more at three fifty only , at three hundred and fifty , all done ? |
| 4 | Oh , no , never say that he did not like them , after all her hard work and the writing of them in the small hours after her demanding duties as a dogsbody had already tired her ! |
| 5 | They were her Aladdin 's caves and , ever since her inheritance , open to her as often as she chose , though for most of the year she contented herself with a reminder of them in the small parcels . |
| 6 | Something she said , perhaps Matey 's name , the lack of privacy for the two of them in the small house , although they had both kept their voices low , stopped him . |
| 7 | Yet none of them in the triple realms of Theatre , Television and Film would be anywhere without the Designer . |
| 8 | Perhaps it could also be blamed on having flicked past hundreds of dull photos of them in The Scots Magazine over the years , showing old men with their shirt sleeves rolled up , pointing at some rolling , lumpy , big hills with the caption reading , ‘ The mighty Cairngorms are a sight for sore eyes in any rambler 's book ’ . |
| 9 | He scored 24 tries , two of them in the epic Challenge Cup final victory over Hull . |
| 10 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 11 | But such enthusiasts were not numerous , and there were not many of them in the papal Curia . |
| 12 | In two months Sussex saw 103 separate incidents , two-thirds of them in the eastern half where the restrictive paternalism of the great landowners was less pervasive than in the west . |
| 13 | There are 1,250 officers in the branch in England and Wales , 30 per cent of them in the Metropolitan Police in London . |
| 14 | The dislocation happened and he saw this stout , handsomely dressed man , almost gasping m front of a pale-eyed , pale-faced clergyman , the two of them in the consecrated atmosphere of a church which could trace back its foundation on that spot through about thirteen hundred years . |
| 15 | There are frequent reports , some of them in the Soviet press , of bungling and inefficiency in both exploration and production , yet expert opinion on what the Soviet oil industry can achieve has been shown over the past few years to be wildly wrong . |
| 16 | The head waiter came towards them , and Anthony gave another name , not his , and they were ushered to a table in the window , overlooking the terrasse where a few customers were sitting in the open , a glass or two in front of them in the freshening air . |
| 17 | There are only a few thousand maleos left , most of them in the northern parts of the island . |
| 18 | An increasing number of factories and other enterprises were being constructed in foreign countries : by 1989 over 3,500 had been built , most of them in the socialist world but nearly 900 in developing countries . |
| 19 | And it 's not just Cancer and Heart Disease and Child Abuse and the Homeless and the Disabled — all of them in the utmost need of support . |
| 20 | Only two prints remain , one of them in the Permanent Collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art . |
| 21 | He added that since the campaign started on 2 February , 175 weapons had been dumped in the bins sited at police stations in his division , 21 of them in the 24-hour period covering the time of the attack on PC Jobson . |
| 22 | We shall consider each of them in the chronological order in which they came to Anselm 's attention . |
| 23 | Préval , the deposed Prime Minister ( who like the rest of the former Cabinet was in hiding — most of them in the French embassy ) issued leaflets calling for non-violent civil disobedience campaigns , as did Aristide in radio broadcasts beamed from neighbouring Dominican Republic . |
| 24 | Being certainly lost an opportunity by not being it 's only body there is an editing element in the book publishing section from the P G B and there are elements relating to us in the S P G of the Periodical Training Council and there will be bits of them in the public relations in the marketing one of which I 've got a copy of the draft , but you know there is nothing all embracing B T E C do graphics and journalism but there is no single forum , I mean that 's what so astonishing and interestingly somebody at B T E C told me the other day there 's been a bit of a problem about the the book editing part of the editing level three element um , and that 's partly political as to editing versus production because production 's level four and editing is level three , and that has made some problems apparently |
| 25 | No , you 've been streamed , oh no you 've been are on different groups then ? , have you got a photo of them in the top set for something and the bottom set for |
| 26 | Neath were blamed and given that there were so many of them in the Welsh team it is impossible to argue against Neath , in the sense that the Neath style and philosophy were also Wales ' bearing some of the blame for the national decline . |
| 27 | And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character . |
| 28 | More of them were the sons or grandsons of someone in the Christian ministry . |
| 29 | ‘ They 've just decided Pat can now take care of himself in the outside world . |
| 30 | Auguste caught a brief glimpse of himself in the small mirror he had unobtrusively arranged in order that he might keep an eye on events taking place behind his back ; the surreptitious addition of Mrs Marshall 's abominable Coralline pepper , for example , to an imperfect sauce . |